He’s alive because when the cops saw him he was white enough. Also, Islam isn’t a race except to white people. Because to them, it isn’t Christian and whiteness and white supremacy were born of protestant Christianity in the United States and Catholicism in Latin America.

Once they saw his name, suddenly they’re all ‘just' as if whiteness isn’t based on skin color. His whiteness saved his life like it would have mine despite most of these commenters arguing I’m not like them because I’m a child of Latino immigrants. I’m white enough for cops not to shoot me but not white enough for white America to not discriminate against because of my culture, heritage, and frankly, my name.

These comments are evident of the confusion and lack of cultural identity whiteness brings to the table.

You were right to call it what it is.

The colorism behind how police operate saved his life. Plain and simple.

The reactions to your tweet and subsequent firing is how white supremacy protects white people from confronting their own prejudices. A lot of people here need to take a basic ethnic studies course.