#WhiteRage Hits Twitter

On Monday, Salon posted an article assailing the phenomenon called white rage, wherein–according to the author–whites across the board possess “an unwillingness or inability to see African-Americans as fully realized human beings”, and that the all-white Zimmerman trial attorneys (in spite of the fact that Mark O’Mara has fought tooth and nail for all of his clients, many of which have been black) failed to rid themselves of the appallingly ubiquitous “three-fifths” ideology in which White America is entrenched. The statements were sweeping, and of course, so too was the manifest fury of latte-sipping whites on Twitter. Some of the best, most visceral 140-characters-or-less ripostes below: