Dear white people: America is not post racial. Never has been. And I’m here to tell you that you need to step up your game. Big time. Stop sugar coating racism. Stop equivocating. Stop parsing your words to avoid hurting white people’s delicate, fragile feelings. Say the actual words. Call out racism. Call out sexism and misogyny; call out Islamophobia; call out ableism…call it all out.

Call things what they are. Flowery sounding euphemisms may make white people feel better, but that only makes life worse for everyone else. Stop equivocating. Stop trying to be so damn “moderate” all the time.

Moderation in the defense of justice is no virtue.