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I'm the worst at hashtags. The best I’ve ever done in coming up with one was #LetsAllHaveAThoughtful discussion, which didn’t trend for obvious reasons. By the time you use that hashtag, there’s not much room for the discussion. And as we all know by now anyway, social media is a pretty ineffective place to try to have a thoughtful discussion. Because even if two people are doing a good job of it, at any point a third party can jump in with their brand-new Derail-A-Tron 3000™, and hijack this thread to Obamaisamulim Town. And wow, did I learn that after putting up that post. Now, certainly there was a critical mass of white people who understood what I was writing, even if they didn’t exactly know what to do with the information. But there was maybe even a bigger, critical mass of white people who were very much like, “Screw this! I don’t want nothing to do with that race pot that you colored people roll around in, even though my ancestors were the ones who designed the pot, ordered colored people to build the pot, and then told them to get inside the pot.” And just to be clear, these weren’t Trump supporters and Tea Partyers, not by a long shot. (I’m sure it is not a surprise to you that those types aren’t generally in my target market.) No, this was Bernie Sanders-supporting, "Scandal"-watching, recycling-separating, two mom friends-having, white people. You know, the good ones.