I tried to reason with a racist on the internet

And here’s what happened

Since I was a child, I’ve had a problem with backing down from arguments.

My dad was a talking man. We always had to have a ‘conference’ before he spanked me. I often had to reason my way out of whippings.

My parents raised me to say what I think, and I never pulled punches with them. So, you could say, I have some practice with rhetorical wrestling matches.

Now, I don’t have a need to attack opinions just because I disagree with them.

I can read something online I vehemently disagree with and type nothing. I know how to roll my eyes and keep them moving.

But, if you come to my turf, expect a war of words. In my space, I enforce a ‘stand your ground' policy.

I’m only convinced by facts, and I will go down stringing, swinging, and flinging sentences on a particular point.

And recently, when someone tweeted one of my posts about racism, a white supremacist responded. Those hashtags on Twitter are great, right? But a racism hashtag is like an irresistible treat for the trolls.

So, the white supremacist tweets, “it’s the IQ of Black people” that’s the source of our problems…