Dear White People: You’re Not “Waking Up.” You’re Late.

America Didn’t Change. The Victim Did.

I hate that it took a white suburban mom to make America look up. I hate it more that part of me knew it would.

Because I’ve watched this movie before: Black and brown bodies pile up, footage circulates, people debate “context,” and the country finds a way to yawn. Then a white woman gets shot, the same kind of state violence we’ve been warning about becomes “unthinkable,” and suddenly the word accountability stops sounding like activism and starts sounding like common sense.

That shift isn’t proof we’ve progressed. It’s a confession about how empathy is rationed here.

And if you felt the shift too, if your jaw actually dropped this time, don’t waste that on guilt theater. Don’t waste it on a viral clip about “white tears.” Don’t waste it on the argument about whether you’re allowed to grieve.

Use it. Stay looking. Keep your eyes on the trigger, the script, and the system that wrote it.

And then the story does what it always does: it tries to outrun the footage. So let’s pin the facts to the page before the takes start breeding.

Background: Renee Good’s Killing and Initial Public Outcry

On January 7, 2026, 37-year-old Renée Nicole Good, a white suburban mother of three, was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross during a Minneapolis immigration raid. 11 5 Bystander video showed Good attempting to drive away when Ross opened fire, contradicting official claims that she “weaponized her vehicle”. 11 10 The incident sparked immediate protests and national outrage, intensified by the victim’s demographic: a white, middle-class mom. 5 12 Commentators noted this was an inflection point, unlike past ICE shootings of immigrants or people of color, Good’s death resonated with Americans who “could have been like [her]”. 5 Even some Republican lawmakers expressed disturbance at the clear video evidence. 12 “It looks like the fact that a US citizen, who is a white woman, may be opening the eyes of the American public,” observed Rep. Chuy García. 12 In other words, Good’s identity pierced the usual partisan divide over law enforcement violence.

At the same time, the Trump administration doubled down on defending the shooting. 6 11 President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem labeled Good a “domestic terrorist” who “ran over” an agent, and Vice President J.D. Vance called her death “a tragedy of her own making”. 6 Conservative media personalities quickly fell in line: “100 percent to blame” and “deserved it” was the verdict on right-wing outlets. 6 Notably, their justifications fixated not only on her actions but on who Good was. Commentators highlighted that she had “pronouns in her bio” and was in a same-sex marriage, using slurs like “lesbian agitator” to delegitimize her. 6 This early framing set the stage for a cultural battle that went beyond the shooting itself, focusing on race, gender, and ideology.

TLDR

• Renée Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross during a Minneapolis immigration raid, and video evidence became central because it appeared to contradict official framing. 11 10

• The phrase “Dear White People” is trending because two arguments collided at once: Black and immigrant justice voices saying, do not make this your first awakening, and right wing voices using a viral clip to mock “woke” grief policing. 1 3

• The outrage spread fastest through short, shareable culture war objects, like the “white tears are not helpful” memorial clip, not through long reporting or full timelines. 1 9

• Conservative influencers pushed a counter-narrative by attacking Good’s identity and recoding sympathy as weakness or disorder, with “AWFUL” as a shorthand for liberal white women. 6 7

• The real question under the trending phrase is simple: will this moment expand who gets protected, or will it just become another clip-based proxy war over who is allowed to feel? 12

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Viral Flashpoint: “White Tears” and Backlash on Social Media

Within days, a “Dear White People” narrative emerged on social platforms, driven by frustration from some activists and explosive reactions from others. A pivotal moment came at a makeshift memorial for Good on January 9. 1 2 A middle-aged white mourner told a reporter she felt “kind of wrong” about being there because, as a white woman with “a lot of privilege,” she believed her grief might be inappropriate. 1 2 “I feel like white tears are not always helpful or necessary when Black and brown people have been experiencing this for a long time,” she explained. 1 2 This comment, effectively admonishing white people’s belated outrage, was captured on video and posted by Breaking911 on X (Twitter), rapidly amassing over 7 million views. 1 9

Viral Quote: “Leftist woman says she ‘feels wrong’ for paying her respects to Renee Good because she’s a ‘white woman who’s privileged.’ ‘White tears are not helpful.’” (Breaking911 tweet, Jan 9, 2026) 9

The clip ignited immediate backlash across the spectrum. 1 2 Many conservatives and moderates seized on it as proof of “woke” excess. 1 “Woke ideology has sent people literally bonkers,” scoffed British pundit Piers Morgan. 1 Former Republican strategist Tim Miller urged white people “should grieve and cry” and “not racialize your tears”, calling the woman’s mindset an “identitarian anxiety”. 1 Journalists from Cathy Young to Noam Blum labeled the woman’s attitude “moronic” and “miserable,” arguing she’d been “brainwashed beyond measure” by a toxic strain of the left. 1 Even some progressives were dismayed: “She’s clearly trying to do and say the ‘right thing’ and by doing so is denying herself her own humanity,” wrote one leftist, calling it a symptom of the hyper-critical racial politics of recent years. 1

On the other hand, a few commentators noted that this viral moment was “nutpicking from a far-right outlet”, essentially cherry-picking an extreme example to tarnish the left. 1 “Yes, this person clearly needs to touch grass,” one wrote, “but the proportion of libs who actually think like this is such a tiny minority”. 1 Nevertheless, the damage was done: the “white tears” video became a lightning rod. It provided a visceral soundbite in the culture war and helped propel the Dear White People controversy into mainstream conversation.

Around the same time, variations of a direct “Dear White People” appeal were spreading online. For example, a widely shared Threads post by activist Swaggy Wolfdog bluntly asked: “Dear White People, aren’t y’all fking tired of this yet? Because the rest of us are fed tf up with y’alls bs.” (post viewed over 300,000 times), imploring white Americans to wake up to ICE brutality. Such posts, often using frank or profane language, amplified the idea that white Americans needed a come-to-Jesus moment about state violence, now that one of their own had fallen victim. In essence, where these early posts framed Good’s death as a teachable moment for white people, albeit delivered with searing frustration.

Activists’ Response: Centering Race in the Solidarity Narrative

As the controversy spread, Black activists and writers stepped in to reshape the narrative, often beginning with the very phrase “Dear White People.” On January 18, St. Louis-based organizer Ohun Ashe published a fiery Substack essay titled “Dear White People: Renee Nicole Good – Watching Your ‘Ah-ha’ Moment is Nauseating.” 3 In it, Ashe speaks directly to white allies who were suddenly outraged by Good’s killing. She recounts how, as a Black woman, she needed “zero proving to see the horror in Renee Good’s murder”, yet white onlookers, for once, did not ask for patience or “more facts” when the victim was white. 3 “White people always had the ability to see the horror in our deaths but you reserved your compassion in order to defend your hierarchy in American society,” Ashe writes bluntly. 3 Now, watching white folks express shock and empathy so readily for Good felt “equally nauseating as it is infuriating” to her. 3

Ashe’s piece admonishes white Americans to de-center themselves and not treat Renee Good as a singular rallying point. “If you only get active when a White woman is killed, then you will continue to ignore the systemic conditions” behind the killing of Black and Brown people, she warns. 3 She even calls out some well-meaning liberal discourse: for instance, white commenters saying “if this could happen to a White woman…imagine what’s happening when we aren’t watching”, a sentiment she finds “really f*ing offensive because we’ve been screaming about what’s happening” all along. 3 Ashe’s rhetoric is one of moral outrage and bitter disappointment, essentially saying “We told you so” and “damn you for not listening until now”. Her Substack note gained significant traction in social justice circles, encapsulating the frustration many Black activists felt. However, it was one amplification point among many, not the spark of the controversy, but a crystallization of its themes. (The conversation was already well underway by Jan 9, as noted above.) Ashe’s note became a central reference for those insisting that Good’s death must not overshadow the longstanding plight of people of color.

A similar perspective came from writer Maya Johnson, who penned a piece titled “Please stop using ‘#SayHerName’ for Renee Good” on Jan 15. 4 Johnson argued that white supporters were co-opting a hashtag born to highlight Black women killed by state violence. “Not every tragedy gets to wear Black language like a hand-me-down,” she wrote, calling it “hijacking” for white people to slap #SayHerName onto Good’s case. 4 The hashtag #SayHerName was created specifically to resist the erasure of Black women’s stories; using it for a white woman, Johnson said, “proves people are paying attention to Black pain, close enough to imitate our language, while still refusing to sit with why we had to create that language in the first place.”. 4 In other words, even well-intentioned solidarity could feel like appropriation. Her piece urged allies to honor Good without appropriating Black women’s rallying cries: “invoke her memory, demand accountability…just don’t take a tool forged for Black women’s visibility and turn it into a catch-all slogan.”. 4

These interventions by Black activists highlight an important fault line exposed by the controversy: the tension between welcoming newfound white support and guarding against the dilution or misapplication of racial justice frameworks. Notably, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter did lead a “Say her name: Renee Good” chant at a Minneapolis press conference, signaling solidarity. But Johnson’s response shows the nuanced debate within racial justice circles about how to incorporate Good’s case. The Dear White People open letters, in various forms, all carry a common message: This outrage is justified, but if it’s only awakening you now because the victim is white, examine that. As Ashe put it, “Your hurt feelings are not above Black, Brown and Immigrant folks’ liberation”. 3i

Conservative Counterattack: Targeting “Liberal White Women”

On the opposite end, right-wing media and influencers also homed in on the “white woman” angle, but with a very different intent. Sensing that Good’s death could galvanize moderate white women against the administration, Trump supporters began a campaign to discredit Good and demonize her demographic. 6 Almost immediately, slurs and slogans proliferated. Daily Wire host Matt Walsh derided Good as a “lesbian activist” who essentially got what she deserved. 6Fox News segments emphasized her sexual orientation and the fact that she “leaves behind a lesbian partner…with pronouns in her bio,” as if those facts made her life less sympathetic. 6 This was a deliberate strategy: to other-ize Good despite her whiteness, painting her as a radical outside the norm of “real” (i.e. conservative, straight) Americans. Gendered insults also flew. Right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong crudely called Good a “rug munching leftist,” and numerous commentators fixated on her and her wife’s appearance, sneering at their short-cropped hair or androgynous style. 6 As Media Matters’ Courtney Hagle observed, “there’s a real sense of disgust with women in the way conservative media is talking about these protests…especially white women, liberal women.” The murder of a white woman didn’t evoke empathy on the right; instead it triggered anger at white women who ‘step out of line’. 6

A telling development was the sudden popularity of a new epithet: “AWFL” or “AWFUL”, an acronym for Affluent White Female Urban Liberal. 7 8 The far-right had apparently been using this term to deride progressive white women, but it “gained traction” in the wake of Good’s case. 7 On social media, Trump supporters and right-wing commentators began explicitly referring to Good and women like her as “AWFULs.” 7 Conservative pundit Erick Erickson tweeted on the day of the shooting: “An AWFUL…is dead after running her car into an ICE agent… Progressive whites are turning violent. ICE agents have the right to defend themselves.”. 8 The derogatory label spread so widely that The New York Times wrote a piece about it, noting that the ire was “particularly targeted at white women in the streets” protesting, even though many men were also involved. 7 The fear driving this rhetoric was both political and cultural: White, college-educated women have largely opposed Trump’s agenda, and their activism (sometimes derided as “soccer moms” taking to the streets) threatens the right’s coalition. 7 By branding them AWFLs and equating them with chaos, the far-right tapped into old anxieties about “uppity” women and shifting gender roles. As one conservative quipped, “They will ruin men’s lives just like they’re ruining western civilization.” Such hyperbole underscores how Good’s death became a proxy battle over the role of white liberal women in dissent.

It wasn’t only anonymous trolls using this framing. Even mainstream outlets noted the Trump base’s hostility toward these women. The Independent described how Good’s killing “triggered a reaction from many on the right that is particularly focused on liberal white women”. 7 In essence, conservative media pivoted: rather than sympathize with a white victim of state force (which would undermine their law-and-order narrative), they attacked her as an AWFL ‘domestic terrorist’. This served to shore up support among core Trump voters (especially white men resentful of liberal women’s influence) and to discourage any of Trump’s base from empathizing with Good. It also conveniently diverted the conversation from ICE misconduct to the supposed pathology of the left. We see a populist strategy here: right-wing voices cast Good and her allies as elitist, deranged “urban liberals” out of touch with “real America,” thus rallying the Trumpist base against a common enemy (even if that enemy is also white). In short, both sides of the controversy used Good’s identity as a white woman in different ways, for progressives, as a challenge to white folks’ conscience; for the right, as a new target for anti-elite, anti-feminist resentment.

Cultural Context and Fault Lines Exposed

This controversy did not erupt in a vacuum. It sits at the intersection of ongoing American fault lines: race, gender, and power. Renée Good’s death came amid Trump’s aggressive “Operation Metro Surge” ICE raids, which many liberals saw as authoritarian excess. 11 For over a year, immigrant communities and activists had been warning that ICE’s tactics were out of control, yet public outrage stayed relatively niche. Good’s killing “struck a nerve” precisely because it breached a racial and class boundary, the victim looked like the suburban moms who are not usually subject to police violence. This catalyzed new sympathy and broadened the protest movement (even some Republicans called it “deeply disturbing”). 12But as Black commentators pointed out, the fact it took a white victim to galvanize many people is itself a sobering commentary on racial hierarchy in empathy. The moment is resonating now because it forces a confrontation with that reality. “If this could happen to a White woman in broad daylight on camera, I can only imagine what’s happening when we aren’t watching,” many said, a sentiment simultaneously validating what activists of color have long alleged and frustrating those activists by its lateness.

The “Dear White People” controversy lays bare tensions within progressive movements. One fault line is the role of white allies: Some, like the memorial attendee, feel compelled to minimize their own voices (“white tears aren’t needed”) out of deference to people of color. 1 Others find that performative or counter-productive, arguing genuine multiracial solidarity doesn’t require self-effacement of basic humanity. This debate touches on deeper questions of guilt vs. action, and how to navigate privilege without “center-staging” or paralyzing oneself. Another internal fault line is over language and symbols, e.g. whether chanting “Say Her Name” for a white woman dilutes a Black-centered movement. 4 These are nuanced discussions about cultural ownership and solidarity that the Good case accelerated. We see Black activists insisting on historical context and boundaries (reserving certain rhetoric for its original purpose) while also seeking to harness the broad outrage Good inspired toward systemic change (abolishing ICE, etc.).

Meanwhile, the political polarization around the incident has deepened. For the American right, Good’s case has become a rallying point to attack what they perceive as left-wing hysteria and even to justify harsher crackdowns. Trump and allies brazenly cast the Minneapolis protests as a “sinister left-wing movement” attacking law enforcement. The president himself disparaged Good’s widow as merely a “friend” and suggested the women “were highly disrespectful of law enforcement”, signaling to his base that this was not an innocent victim. 6 In this climate, acknowledging any wrongdoing by ICE is seen as political betrayal. On the other hand, Democrats have nearly unanimously condemned the shooting, with calls to impeach DHS Secretary Noem and even defund ICE gaining steam. 12 The incident has energized left-wing calls to “abolish ICE” and curb militarized immigration raids. 12 It has also become a talking point in the broader narrative of creeping authoritarianism under Trump’s second term. In short, Renee Good’s death is a flashpoint that crystallizes the stakes of America’s culture wars in 2026: the role of federal power, whose lives are valued, and who gets to claim moral high ground.

Rhetorical Strategies and Why It’s Resonating Now

The rhetoric around this controversy is striking on all sides. Racial framing is front and center. Progressive voices frame Good’s killing as proof of systemic racism’s breadth, if even a white woman can be gunned down without consequence, imagine the terror long faced by Black and Brown communities. They use moral indictment: White Americans are asked to reflect on why “your compassion was reserved” until now. 3 There is also a strong theme of moral outrage and even despair in their tone, as Ohun Ashe wrote, “fuck you for not listening”, voicing the rage of those who have repeated the same warnings for years. 3 This raw anger is a deliberate strategy to shock white allies out of complacency. It’s akin to shaking someone by the shoulders, hence the provocative “Dear White People” address, reminiscent of a tough-love scolding. Some might call it a populist appeal from the left: it appeals to people’s sense of justice over authority, urging ordinary folks (now including white suburbanites) to unite against oppressive government actions. Indeed, protest signs and speeches have equated ICE with fascist regimes, e.g. referring to ICE detention centers as “Nazi camps”, to stoke moral urgency.

Conservative rhetoric, by contrast, employs populist demagoguery and resentment. By promoting the AWFL slur and mocking “white liberal women,” the right taps into populist anger at so-called “elites” (in this narrative, college-educated liberal women are cast as elite oppressors of the common man). 7 It’s an inversion of the usual race narrative: here white women are maligned as traitors to their race and gender, aligning with minorities and undermining traditional power structures. The rhetorical strategy includes heavy doses of moral disgust (“insanity,” “mental illness,” “cult”) to rally the base against anything associated with “woke” culture. This is combined with a law-and-order frame: Good and those like her are portrayed as violent anarchists (e.g. claiming “Progressive whites are turning violent”). 8 The aim is to delegitimize sympathy for Good and to keep the focus on justifying the agent’s actions. Notably, Trump’s allies rhetorically erased Good’s marriage (calling her wife a mere “friend”) and emphasized her defiance, all to strip away any martyrdom she might gain. 6 It’s a cold but calculated strategy: deny the victim any moral high ground and make the story about ‘radical leftists’ threatening American security.

This controversy resonates now because it hits multiple nerves at once. It is exposing racial double standards in real time, many white Americans are only now grappling with images of a victim who looks like them being vilified by authorities, a routine experience for Black Americans. That cognitive dissonance (the “ah-ha moment” Ashe refers to) is fueling both empathy and guilt, which activists are trying to channel constructively. Simultaneously, it exposes a gendered and ideological battle: the sight of “soccer moms” and middle-aged white women leading protests has clearly unnerved the right. It threatens the stereotype that only young radicals or people of color protest, and suggests a broader coalition against Trump’s policies. This is likely why we see such intense efforts to ridicule and shame these women (labeling them AWFLs, “miserable,” “brainwashed”). 1 7 The controversy lays bare an implicit question: Who has the right to righteously protest in America? Both in the literal sense (the government labeling Good a terrorist vs. others calling her a hero), and in the cultural sense (who gets moral permission to be outraged).

In rhetorical terms, the Dear White People open letters employ a strategy of moral inversion: turning the lens back on the majority and challenging them to live up to their stated ideals. They often use second-person address (“you”) to personalize the call-out. The right-wing responses use derision and fear: terms like “insane,” “bonkers” and dystopian claims that “even grief is radicalized” or “America hasn’t been this racist since before the Civil Rights movement”. 1 2Such hyperbole is meant to stoke a sense of crisis in their audience, portraying the left as not just wrong, but as a dangerous, almost deranged force tearing apart social norms (even at a funeral vigil). In that sense, both sides invoke a moral panic, but over different threats (state violence vs. woke anarchy).

Conclusion: A Turning Point in the Discourse?

The “Dear White People” controversy surrounding Renée Good’s death illustrates how a single tragedy can become a prism for a society’s deepest divisions. What began as grief and outrage over a shocking shooting swiftly transformed into a multi-layered debate about race, privilege, and protest. A week earlier, mainstream America might have dismissed phrases like “white tears” or “AWFL” as niche Twitter jargon; now they are front-page talking points, forcing uncomfortable conversations. The controversy’s origin can be traced to ground-level reactions, notably that viral memorial video on January 9, but it was amplified by activists’ essays, social-media firebrands, and media coverage over the following days. 1 3 The Substack note by Ohun Ashe was one prominent amplification of the Dear White People call, articulating sentiments many Black activists shared. 3 However, it was one voice among many in a chorus that had already started on sidewalks, news conferences, and Twitter feeds. There was no single “patient zero” post that sparked everything; rather, the combination of a compelling video clip, a catchy provocative phrase, and existing racial tensions made the controversy go viral.

Culturally, the episode is exposing fault lines that have long existed but are now thrown into stark relief by current events. It reveals a paradox: on one hand, Good’s killing has created an unprecedented opening for empathy across racial lines (white Americans seeing injustice in a new light); on the other, it has also prompted some to double-down on racial tribalism (attacking allies and enemies based on identity). The rhetorical battlefield, from “Dear White People, do better” to “These liberal white women are AWFUL”, shows how each side is trying to seize the narrative high ground. One side appeals to our better angels of cross-racial solidarity and historical truth, even if in scathing tones. The other appeals to fears of social breakdown and channels resentment toward those who challenge the status quo.

Why is it resonating now? Because it touches the core of how Americans see each other. The image of an ICE agent shooting a white mom scrambles the usual scripts, and in that scramble, people are projecting their own values and anxieties. For some, it’s a rallying cry to finally unite against a police state, for others a dire warning that “even you aren’t safe if you defy authority.” For Black activists, it’s a bittersweet “We’ve been dying for years; don’t ignore that truth now that you’ve had your epiphany.” For the MAGA right, it’s “See how crazy the left is, they even make mourning about race, and see how treacherous liberal women are.” In short, the controversy resonates because it strikes at guilt, fear, and hope all at once, guilt over ignored injustices, fear of losing power or moral order, and hope that a broad coalition might finally demand change.

Ultimately, the “Dear White People” discourse around Renée Good has become central to the story of her death’s aftermath. It is forcing a reckoning with who gets to be a victim, who gets to protest, and whose stories count. Whether this moment leads to deeper understanding and coalition-building, or simply further polarization, remains to be seen. But it has undeniably exposed the raw nerves of American society in 2026. The rhetorical crossfire, from Substack essays to viral tweets, is not just noise; it’s a symptom of a nation grappling, in real time, with its ongoing struggles over racial justice, empathy, and power.

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1. Newsweek: viral “white tears” memorial video and reactions https://www.newsweek.com/video-of-woman-saying-white-tears-not-helpful-after-ice-shooting-goes-viral-11337879

2. Times of India summary of memorial incident & online outrage https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/white-tears-are-not-helpful-leftist-woman-says-it-felt-wrong-to-mourn-renee-good-sparks-online-outrage/articleshow/126443537.cms

3. Ohun Ashe, “Dear White People: Renee Nicole Good”, Substack (Jan 18, 2026)

Dear White People: Renee Nicole Good

4. Maya Johnson, “Stop using #SayHerName for Renee Good”, Sunken Press (Jan 15, 2026)

Please stop using “#SayHerName” for Renee Good

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8. ZeroHedge (Tyler Durden), summary of AWFL term and NYT coverage https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msm-melting-down-over-new-term-liberal-white-women

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12. Associated Press via Milwaukee Indep. on political responses https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/congress-considers-defunding-ice-impeachment-kristi-noem-brutal-killing-renee-good/