Today in English a fight broke out between some white kid in my class and a Hawaiian guy. It started over something really trivial, but eventually it escalated until the white kid had the nerve to blurt out a slur against him.

I expected my (also white) teacher to just scold him briefly and move on, but to my (pleasant) surprise she got on a long-winded rant about racism and sent that kid straight to the office.

I love how my English teacher is constantly talking about how we in fact don’t live in a post-racist society, and if you think we do, then you’re completely ignorant.