I'm starting to wonder if these racists inspire eachothers, create a scene. Be ob(scene), show your true colors and incase it causes them to be fired or sued etc. They cash in. Maybe she was in financial trouble. And gambled on this outcome.
What I'm hearing is that people like this white woman are saying horrible stuff in public every day. Because I'm white, a random Karen might fly off the handle and demand to know what I'm doing on a public street in her neighborhood or at a park if she doesn't like what I'm wearing, but I don't typically expect a Karen going off on me to result in my arrest or death. No one could pay me any amount of money to say or think the things this woman says, or to associate with anyone remotely like her. I view her behavior as utterly demented, disgusting, & absurd. I tend to see this type of behavior as fringe lunacy. But I am willing to adjust my perception and accept that things like this are common in the lives of POC. My default position is to believe POC, the same way my default position is to believe a woman who says she's been raped. I think the person in the position of greater vulnerability risks more by coming forward than someone who already has more power.
My note disappeared. This country has a problem with violence. Not just gun violence but all kinds of violence. Until we do something about it, there will continue to be episodes of violence directed by all sorts of people who somehow believe they are entitled to special treatment on account of the color of their skin.
I can see now white people don’t like white people and me being a white woman married to a white husband, he’s half Salvadoran, but in all for all intents and purposes, he’s white. It sucks that people hate us because we are white and we do not have any of the ideology that these other MF have! They are pure evil. I was not raised that way neither was my husband. My first husband was Hispanic so my children are half Hispanic all my friends are Hispanic so I do not understand where this hate comes from! And it breaks my heart because I would never treat another person because of the color of their skin or their religious persuasion or sexual persuasion differently! I learned where all God’s children and that’s it. And these people are profiting off of evilness! I hate that and you brought out every example of what these people espouse and what we don’t. thank you for putting a light on it and let’s just hope it can get better!
I agree with most of the cases mentioned, except for Penny. He does not belong in this category. If you are not a regular user of the NYC subway system, and I am, it's a dicey affair, and NYC has a serious problem with the mentally disturbed being threatening and even maiming and killing from time to time. The witnesses testified they were terrifying of Neely. Penny, a former Marine, I believe, would have jumped to the defense of the subway car regardless of the race of the perpetrator. Make no mistake about it, the psychotic episode of Jordan Neely was no joke -- we constantly have mentally ill going off the rails to the great detriment off those in the way. A subway car is a uniquely captive environment, A person has nowhere to "run" or ability to "get away." It's a feeling of helplessness that is triggering, to say the least. I don't think Penny set out in any way to kill Neely, and I don't believe he did: I think Neely died of some sort of overdose effecting his heart. You have to remember he was living on the streets for a long time, which breaks down a person's health, and then when addled by drugs, many homeless bodies just give out from the stress meets an unhealthy lifestyle. Neely probably would have been fine had he not been jacked up on stress, mental breakdown, unhealthy life, and narcotics. People here, including myself, jumped to Penny's defense for good reason. He really does not belong with the rest of these entries.
Penny chose to associate himself with Vance and Trump, known fascists and white supremacists. He chose to take funding from white nationalists. I don't need to know what's in his mind, that doesn't matter. His actions already show us what he believes.
Your column, which I initially admired, is becoming increasingly racist and sexist. Or maybe it was like this all along but I only noticed recently. You excoriate "white women" who in fact had no rights whatsoever until the late 19th century and who are experiencing, along with other women, a massive attempt to take away our hard-won rights.
You think Daniel Penny is a racist when in fact there is no evidence he is a racist; he should sue you for libel, and he protected other people in a New York City subway car. Maybe you've never been in a New York City subway car. He was mainly protecting women because the person he killed had a history of violence against women. But you don't care about that.
Rittenhouse was a jerk but a jury found he acted in self defense. Apparently, you think you are the judge and the jury in a case in which you were not involved at all.
You don't believe in American democracy and you are an anti-white racist and a misogynist.
I condemned white supremacy, not white people. I literally have an entire paragraph about how white supremacy harms white people. When I condemn white supremacy and you feel personally attacked, you're telling on yourself. Thanks for letting us know who you are.
So, because I’m a white woman, I am supposed to perform submission, rather than standing up for myself when you blame people like me for “systemic racism” when it’s a system primarily created by white men for their benefit?
I didn't find any 'excoriation of white women' in this article; the history of white women's lack of rights in the US had nothing to do with a racist white woman verbally attacking two Muslim women today.
I know very little about Daniel Penny, but the fact that he was out in public with Trump and Vance showing him off as a kind of trophy/pet gives me pause...
You stating that 'Rittenhouse was a jerk' is pretty tame for a guy who traveled to another state to kill people and get off.
What exactly is YOUR issue? Does it upset you to read/hear about white people behaving badly? Girl... BYE.
Don't you find it odd that Mr. Rashid chose to highlight that she was a "white woman"? The real story is not that she's a white woman but that people in the US think Islamophobia is ok.
She IS a white woman, and while we don't have any percentages available according to race, the majority of Muslim haters here in the US are WHITE... especially the so-called Christian ones. So... the 'real story' is that the woman IS a racist, white, Muslim hater. Why do you insist on dancing around the issue? A racist white woman got into the personal space of two Muslim women to tell them how unhappy she was because they were in the store, shopping.
Black and brown folks - and Muslims - are getting tired of the bullshit. White folks like the woman in the clip need to mind their own damn business. This shouldn't be hard to grasp.
Whoa, sista. This is bullshit. While I agree that Daniel Penny does not belong in this category of discussion at all, Penny had no idea about any background of the person he held in a chokehold. I ride the NYC subway daily and agree it's a dicey venue, and Penny simply jumped to the defense of the people in the subway car (which is an experience all by itself), it has nothing to do with Qasim Rashid. Rittenhouse was in NO way acting in any "self defense" as he travelled from out of town with a massive assault rifle clearly looking to shoot people. He shot and got away with it ... in cold blood. It was a major travesty of justice and had he been a person of color he'd be serving life without parole. He was clearly just Shooting While White and therefore had legions of racists rallying to his pathetic defense. The other crazies Qasim mentions (the jerk who thought Muslims don't belong in her bullshit not-Christian nation) need to be called out and sharply. In case she totally forgot, Muslims and Jews have a lot more in common with her Christianity than she does. Uh, she must have forgotten that Christ was a Middle Eastern Jewish Rabbi, not a North American in 2026. Instead of dealing with the cases at hand, you are calling a civil rights attorney a "racist" and a "misogynist" simply for pointing out travesties of justice and disgusting monetizing of hate in contemporary America. Time to look in a mirror, girlfriend. Something does not add up, like your knee-jerk opinion.
Look at his wording. Look at his descriptions. It's not "Look, someone raised $100,000 on the internet from Islamophobes." It was LOOK AT THIS WHITE WOMAN BEING A RACIST.
Excellent piece. I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. I saw white supremacy everywhere around me. My father was a racist. But like many people raised in a white supremacist environment, it was invisible to me until I left and went to college in Houston, Texas, where there was a very different mix of people. The contrast put the racism of my hometown, and frankly the racism of the Houston area, into sharp relief. And part of that awakening was realizing how structural it actually was, in a thousand ways.
I sometimes wonder what would happen if Muslims, Athiests, Buddhists, and Hindus, among others, were to carry a yarmulke in their pocket or purse, and when confronted by people such as Dascha, put the yarmulke on, and respond, “would you be saying what you said to me if I were Jewish?”.
Racism seems to be a problem with many white people. I wonder why? Is it because of their belief system? Is it because they feel inferior to others? Is it because they need to invade, conquer and destroy a people to get what they want and then claim they own the land? Is it because they are jealous of others who have a more superior attitude towards others than they do? I’m not sure, but this isn’t new. On reading history, they have always taken credit for what other civilizations have done, and always denigrated other cultures for their differences. This is my opinion, also my own life experiences.
Thank you. I grew up in a poor neighborhood and went to a black high school. I’m 75 as well. Have had a rough but fascinating life and have been an avid reader my entire life. Have always loved people of other countries and cultures. Went to India and didn’t want to return home. My parents were bigots, and I’m mestizo.🤣
I think the main reasons are that they are taught by family and community to distrust anyone they don’t know and that they never meet or speak to anyone who isn’t like them. Ignorance is rampant in this country. Education is constantly under surveillance by parents who object to things teachers are teaching, books, how their kid is disciplined for breaking rules and so on. This is new since many of us were in school. I am 75, and teachers were mostly respected. No one I knew quibbled about what was taught. We were encouraged to unearth and preserve a Black cemetery near our school-it was history. I didn’t really know Black people until college. Didn’t know anyone Jewish either. Found out everyone is very much the same in needing friends, help with homework, laundry, money. The differences were interesting. As a rural poor white kid, I had more in common with some Black kids than with the white city kids with money.
When I was a child I lived in a neighborhood where white people were overtly prejudiced against and suspicious of other white people. There was a clear social hierarchy with white Protestants first, white Catholics second, white Jews last. As half-WASP, half-Jewish, I didn't fit in anywhere. Jews hated my parents for their "intermarriage." WASPs looked down on me for my Jewish ancestry. Class was a more potent force behind discrimination than religion. We were not rich. I can only remember one Black girl and a couple of Asian kids at my K-5 school, and two Black kids at my 6-8 school. It wasn't until high school that Black kids were bussed in large numbers. With 2000+ students, no socializing in classes, everyone self-segregated. This was in an area where it wasn't safe to go into some neighborhoods if you were white, or other neighborhoods if you were brown or Jewish. First college was mostly white. Second college was "racially" mixed. Now I live on the edge of a neighborhood of immigrants from Somalia & Eritrea, about a block and a half from a mosque. 20 years ago I tried to take my kid to a nearby community center, but the Black guy at the desk said it was for his community (technically incorrect as it was owned by the Parks Department, but I understood what he was saying). He told me to go hang out at the white community center across town, so I say okay, took my kid, and left. We tried that other place, but I quickly discovered I disliked the company of Karenish affluent white women. Fortunately my kids attended a more integrated school and learned a lot about other cultures and local indigenous tribes.
Monetizing white woman tears, one of the many logical conclusions of todays political and racial economy. Thanks for writing this, we need to shine more light on how money is circulating through these informal channels that are propping up white supremacy.
I am not black or brown but I have 2 daughters, 5 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren who are in varying shades. I have always wanted a better life for them . I am appalled at the way young children are not seen as the sweet innocent littles they are.
The national disease of racism must be MUST BE overcome for us to grow as a country toward the lofty goals enshrined in our founding documents. We can and we MUST do better. Together.
I'm starting to wonder if these racists inspire eachothers, create a scene. Be ob(scene), show your true colors and incase it causes them to be fired or sued etc. They cash in. Maybe she was in financial trouble. And gambled on this outcome.
What I'm hearing is that people like this white woman are saying horrible stuff in public every day. Because I'm white, a random Karen might fly off the handle and demand to know what I'm doing on a public street in her neighborhood or at a park if she doesn't like what I'm wearing, but I don't typically expect a Karen going off on me to result in my arrest or death. No one could pay me any amount of money to say or think the things this woman says, or to associate with anyone remotely like her. I view her behavior as utterly demented, disgusting, & absurd. I tend to see this type of behavior as fringe lunacy. But I am willing to adjust my perception and accept that things like this are common in the lives of POC. My default position is to believe POC, the same way my default position is to believe a woman who says she's been raped. I think the person in the position of greater vulnerability risks more by coming forward than someone who already has more power.
My note disappeared. This country has a problem with violence. Not just gun violence but all kinds of violence. Until we do something about it, there will continue to be episodes of violence directed by all sorts of people who somehow believe they are entitled to special treatment on account of the color of their skin.
As a white American I am so sad and upset by the persistence of racism in our country. And it is not normal, it is taught.
Unbelievable, how is this bigoted behavior celebrated and not detested like it's supposed to?
Brilliant, Qasim. Into the future's history books with this essay!
I can see now white people don’t like white people and me being a white woman married to a white husband, he’s half Salvadoran, but in all for all intents and purposes, he’s white. It sucks that people hate us because we are white and we do not have any of the ideology that these other MF have! They are pure evil. I was not raised that way neither was my husband. My first husband was Hispanic so my children are half Hispanic all my friends are Hispanic so I do not understand where this hate comes from! And it breaks my heart because I would never treat another person because of the color of their skin or their religious persuasion or sexual persuasion differently! I learned where all God’s children and that’s it. And these people are profiting off of evilness! I hate that and you brought out every example of what these people espouse and what we don’t. thank you for putting a light on it and let’s just hope it can get better!
I agree with most of the cases mentioned, except for Penny. He does not belong in this category. If you are not a regular user of the NYC subway system, and I am, it's a dicey affair, and NYC has a serious problem with the mentally disturbed being threatening and even maiming and killing from time to time. The witnesses testified they were terrifying of Neely. Penny, a former Marine, I believe, would have jumped to the defense of the subway car regardless of the race of the perpetrator. Make no mistake about it, the psychotic episode of Jordan Neely was no joke -- we constantly have mentally ill going off the rails to the great detriment off those in the way. A subway car is a uniquely captive environment, A person has nowhere to "run" or ability to "get away." It's a feeling of helplessness that is triggering, to say the least. I don't think Penny set out in any way to kill Neely, and I don't believe he did: I think Neely died of some sort of overdose effecting his heart. You have to remember he was living on the streets for a long time, which breaks down a person's health, and then when addled by drugs, many homeless bodies just give out from the stress meets an unhealthy lifestyle. Neely probably would have been fine had he not been jacked up on stress, mental breakdown, unhealthy life, and narcotics. People here, including myself, jumped to Penny's defense for good reason. He really does not belong with the rest of these entries.
Penny chose to associate himself with Vance and Trump, known fascists and white supremacists. He chose to take funding from white nationalists. I don't need to know what's in his mind, that doesn't matter. His actions already show us what he believes.
Your column, which I initially admired, is becoming increasingly racist and sexist. Or maybe it was like this all along but I only noticed recently. You excoriate "white women" who in fact had no rights whatsoever until the late 19th century and who are experiencing, along with other women, a massive attempt to take away our hard-won rights.
You think Daniel Penny is a racist when in fact there is no evidence he is a racist; he should sue you for libel, and he protected other people in a New York City subway car. Maybe you've never been in a New York City subway car. He was mainly protecting women because the person he killed had a history of violence against women. But you don't care about that.
Rittenhouse was a jerk but a jury found he acted in self defense. Apparently, you think you are the judge and the jury in a case in which you were not involved at all.
You don't believe in American democracy and you are an anti-white racist and a misogynist.
I condemned white supremacy, not white people. I literally have an entire paragraph about how white supremacy harms white people. When I condemn white supremacy and you feel personally attacked, you're telling on yourself. Thanks for letting us know who you are.
You cite the phrase "white woman" four times in a relatively short essay.
And I linked an essay by a Black woman to explain why. Your personal offense at documented systemic racism is further proving my point.
So, because I’m a white woman, I am supposed to perform submission, rather than standing up for myself when you blame people like me for “systemic racism” when it’s a system primarily created by white men for their benefit?
I didn't find any 'excoriation of white women' in this article; the history of white women's lack of rights in the US had nothing to do with a racist white woman verbally attacking two Muslim women today.
I know very little about Daniel Penny, but the fact that he was out in public with Trump and Vance showing him off as a kind of trophy/pet gives me pause...
You stating that 'Rittenhouse was a jerk' is pretty tame for a guy who traveled to another state to kill people and get off.
What exactly is YOUR issue? Does it upset you to read/hear about white people behaving badly? Girl... BYE.
Don't you find it odd that Mr. Rashid chose to highlight that she was a "white woman"? The real story is not that she's a white woman but that people in the US think Islamophobia is ok.
She IS a white woman, and while we don't have any percentages available according to race, the majority of Muslim haters here in the US are WHITE... especially the so-called Christian ones. So... the 'real story' is that the woman IS a racist, white, Muslim hater. Why do you insist on dancing around the issue? A racist white woman got into the personal space of two Muslim women to tell them how unhappy she was because they were in the store, shopping.
Black and brown folks - and Muslims - are getting tired of the bullshit. White folks like the woman in the clip need to mind their own damn business. This shouldn't be hard to grasp.
Go to college and take a class on the history of propaganda.
Got a college degree and a rational brain. Run along.
Whoa, sista. This is bullshit. While I agree that Daniel Penny does not belong in this category of discussion at all, Penny had no idea about any background of the person he held in a chokehold. I ride the NYC subway daily and agree it's a dicey venue, and Penny simply jumped to the defense of the people in the subway car (which is an experience all by itself), it has nothing to do with Qasim Rashid. Rittenhouse was in NO way acting in any "self defense" as he travelled from out of town with a massive assault rifle clearly looking to shoot people. He shot and got away with it ... in cold blood. It was a major travesty of justice and had he been a person of color he'd be serving life without parole. He was clearly just Shooting While White and therefore had legions of racists rallying to his pathetic defense. The other crazies Qasim mentions (the jerk who thought Muslims don't belong in her bullshit not-Christian nation) need to be called out and sharply. In case she totally forgot, Muslims and Jews have a lot more in common with her Christianity than she does. Uh, she must have forgotten that Christ was a Middle Eastern Jewish Rabbi, not a North American in 2026. Instead of dealing with the cases at hand, you are calling a civil rights attorney a "racist" and a "misogynist" simply for pointing out travesties of justice and disgusting monetizing of hate in contemporary America. Time to look in a mirror, girlfriend. Something does not add up, like your knee-jerk opinion.
Look at his wording. Look at his descriptions. It's not "Look, someone raised $100,000 on the internet from Islamophobes." It was LOOK AT THIS WHITE WOMAN BEING A RACIST.
The White woman was being a racist. That was clear.
Black people are murdered by white men, not by white women. Take a history class.
AMEN!
Excellent piece. I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. I saw white supremacy everywhere around me. My father was a racist. But like many people raised in a white supremacist environment, it was invisible to me until I left and went to college in Houston, Texas, where there was a very different mix of people. The contrast put the racism of my hometown, and frankly the racism of the Houston area, into sharp relief. And part of that awakening was realizing how structural it actually was, in a thousand ways.
I sometimes wonder what would happen if Muslims, Athiests, Buddhists, and Hindus, among others, were to carry a yarmulke in their pocket or purse, and when confronted by people such as Dascha, put the yarmulke on, and respond, “would you be saying what you said to me if I were Jewish?”.
She probably would say it to a Jewish person.
Racism seems to be a problem with many white people. I wonder why? Is it because of their belief system? Is it because they feel inferior to others? Is it because they need to invade, conquer and destroy a people to get what they want and then claim they own the land? Is it because they are jealous of others who have a more superior attitude towards others than they do? I’m not sure, but this isn’t new. On reading history, they have always taken credit for what other civilizations have done, and always denigrated other cultures for their differences. This is my opinion, also my own life experiences.
Thank you. I grew up in a poor neighborhood and went to a black high school. I’m 75 as well. Have had a rough but fascinating life and have been an avid reader my entire life. Have always loved people of other countries and cultures. Went to India and didn’t want to return home. My parents were bigots, and I’m mestizo.🤣
I think the main reasons are that they are taught by family and community to distrust anyone they don’t know and that they never meet or speak to anyone who isn’t like them. Ignorance is rampant in this country. Education is constantly under surveillance by parents who object to things teachers are teaching, books, how their kid is disciplined for breaking rules and so on. This is new since many of us were in school. I am 75, and teachers were mostly respected. No one I knew quibbled about what was taught. We were encouraged to unearth and preserve a Black cemetery near our school-it was history. I didn’t really know Black people until college. Didn’t know anyone Jewish either. Found out everyone is very much the same in needing friends, help with homework, laundry, money. The differences were interesting. As a rural poor white kid, I had more in common with some Black kids than with the white city kids with money.
When I was a child I lived in a neighborhood where white people were overtly prejudiced against and suspicious of other white people. There was a clear social hierarchy with white Protestants first, white Catholics second, white Jews last. As half-WASP, half-Jewish, I didn't fit in anywhere. Jews hated my parents for their "intermarriage." WASPs looked down on me for my Jewish ancestry. Class was a more potent force behind discrimination than religion. We were not rich. I can only remember one Black girl and a couple of Asian kids at my K-5 school, and two Black kids at my 6-8 school. It wasn't until high school that Black kids were bussed in large numbers. With 2000+ students, no socializing in classes, everyone self-segregated. This was in an area where it wasn't safe to go into some neighborhoods if you were white, or other neighborhoods if you were brown or Jewish. First college was mostly white. Second college was "racially" mixed. Now I live on the edge of a neighborhood of immigrants from Somalia & Eritrea, about a block and a half from a mosque. 20 years ago I tried to take my kid to a nearby community center, but the Black guy at the desk said it was for his community (technically incorrect as it was owned by the Parks Department, but I understood what he was saying). He told me to go hang out at the white community center across town, so I say okay, took my kid, and left. We tried that other place, but I quickly discovered I disliked the company of Karenish affluent white women. Fortunately my kids attended a more integrated school and learned a lot about other cultures and local indigenous tribes.
Monetizing white woman tears, one of the many logical conclusions of todays political and racial economy. Thanks for writing this, we need to shine more light on how money is circulating through these informal channels that are propping up white supremacy.
I am not black or brown but I have 2 daughters, 5 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren who are in varying shades. I have always wanted a better life for them . I am appalled at the way young children are not seen as the sweet innocent littles they are.
Thank you for another concise and logical assessment of the raciest monetary "pipeline".However, you call this phenomenon "un named".
I find the way to defeat a unacceptable behavior, a name is necessay for citizens to rally behind.
So what say you name such unacceptable
Are these go fund me income taxable?! Are they reporting them?!
The national disease of racism must be MUST BE overcome for us to grow as a country toward the lofty goals enshrined in our founding documents. We can and we MUST do better. Together.