Sigh: Domelights, Inquirer Collide

How did I miss this one earlier in the week? Annette John-Hall wrote a column on how “racial incidents threaten campaign against violence.” Sounds good. She’s going to write about the mistrust between minority communities and the police does no one any good, how our “colorblind” society sometimes fails to notice unintentional racism — and some people believe there’s no such thing as racism anymore, unless you have a white hood on — and all that related stuff.

My summary’s an oversimplification, for sure, but this is an Inquirer columnist! She’ll go through 750 words of flowery prose, explaining it better than I can in a little blog post and maybe try to make a coherent argument.

No, wait. She just quoted Philly cop messageboard Domelights and Rochelle Bilal who said a recent cop suspension “sends a message to the department that all jokes aren’t funny.” And John-Hall ended up writing about, uhm, some idiot cop in Ohio and anonymous Internet messageboard posters being (get this!) angry.

Look, you should only quote Domelights when you’re looking for, as Chrissmari might say, the lulz. (Plus, what if someone tries to shut down the site? Think how many hilarious posts would go un-mocked.) And so, I present to you the Domelights thread on Annette John-Hall’s column, and the greatest sentence ever written on the messageboard by far.

You are better off BECAUSE of slavery. NOT in spite of it.

Guess what ethnicity the person this was directed at was? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not white!

Annette John-Hall: Racial incidents threaten campaign against violence [Inquirer]
DOME MAKES THE PAPERS [Domelights]