An amazing woman fields a troll on MLK Day and it was nothing short of inspirational

Writer Ijeoma Oluo did something on Martin Luther King Jr. Day I personally avoid at all costs—she engaged a rancid troll on Twitter. The troll, calling himself Dildo Baggins, thought he would get his jollies by being as racist as humanly possible to celebrate MLK Day and Ms. Oluo wasn't going to have it. In doing so, she showed us the amazing content of her character.

Please join me below the fold.

WARNING: the following exchange contains horrific racism.

In honor of MLK day today, I'm taking a vow to use the word "nigger" as many times as possible and in the most inappropriate times

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo oh so you're one of those nigger lovers too?

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “Hate destroys the hater...”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo your parents must have named you by putting every letter in a hat and randomly selecting 6 letters

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. ”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo wow you are some divine nigger prophet!!!! And I believe you're a stupid nigger

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to die together as fools.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo the only fucking fool is your inferior nigger ass

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo found this cool pic of your nigger ass pic.twitter.com/KDZzNo0RTV

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo pic.twitter.com/OFsMrcMBRb

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo "damn momma where is my fried chicken. Ya boi is hungry af." - Martin Luther King Jr

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “Carve a tunnel of hope through a dark mountain of disappointment”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo "I only say this shit for the RTs" -Martin Luther King Jr

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo "I hope I get shot soon" -Martin Luther King Jr.

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 I wish you peace and love and freedom from the hatred that hurts your heart

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo who's that a quote from

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 that's me. Sending love and hope to you

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo I have plenty of that

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 not enough to displace the hate in your heart

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo no I'm just trolling. This isn't an account to be taken seriously. You were saying all this serious shit and k wasn't complying

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 it seems sad that you would troll a movement so many died for.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo how many people does exactly

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 I hope you can find hobbies that are less hurtful of other people

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo I hope you answer my question

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 lynching alone counts for almost 5,000. 5,000 human beings whose death you are trolling for fun

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo and what is your source

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 those are tallied from public records and newspaper reports. You can Google if you like. But you don't seem to care about it

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo i don't particularly. I was just wondering where you got the numbers

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 I hope that one day the lives of black people will matter to you. Your life matters to me.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo everyone's lives matter. I just choose to not promote it idk that doesn't make sense lol

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 it's hard to tell that you care when you laugh at our murder

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo I choose to care about people that say, fight for our country. Not people that just father welfare and burn American flags

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 and so you mock the movement for equality? The movement that people were burned, lynched and bombed for?

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 you mock this? pic.twitter.com/d4FKJYHSVd

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 you mock this? pic.twitter.com/x32C5TrNMa

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo correct. I do not believe it is the most important cause to stand behind. And you do, that's okay

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo those days are so far over I don't believe it is valid to use

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo also, you don't know if this man just murdered 10 people or looked a white woman wrong so this is equally invalid

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 you mock these?
http://t.co/...

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo no I didn't read all that but that applies to white people too? Lol

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 you think that he deserved a mob to round him up and burn him alive? Because you "don't know what he did?"

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 I would never wish such a horror on you

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo I never said it was right. But if that man had just murdered two children would you feel less bad about his being hauled out?

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 I would never laugh at your murder. I would never taunt your grieving. I would never mock your fight for equality

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 just last year a black man was killed for asking for help after a car accident. A black woman for the same. You mock this?

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo you're straying from what I said

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 no, because that is what this day is about. That is what you are mocking

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo you're still straying

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 you mock every dead child, you mock every burned home, you mock every lynched father

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo look honey. I'm 14 years old you need to chill

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 my son is 13 years old, and he would never mock your murder

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo well good for him. He must have a really cool mom

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 he does. Does your mom know you spend your time on the internet trying to hurt people?

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo I doubt it. She's been dead for a year and a half now so..

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 I'm sorry for your loss. And I hope you find a better way to honor her.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo my counselor said to make a secret Twitter to let out all my weird horrible feelings so

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 it doesn't seem to be helping.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo yeah you're probably right. But it keeps me from going back into depression and taking so many pills I can't count

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 remember that there is a good chance that someone coming across your hateful tweets is suffering from depressing too.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 there are ways to get those dark feelings out without hurting others

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo yeah I just haven't figured it out yet

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 you could even journal these things instead of sending them out into the world to hurt people

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo writing isn't my strong suit haha

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 it's just like tweeting - I promise!

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo easy for you to say haha

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 well I wish you luck. And I hope you will try to refrain from hurting others while you try to heal

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

@IjeomaOluo you are so nice and I'm so sorry

— Dildo Baggins (@mrscrotum21) January 19, 2015

@mrscrotum21 thank you. Today is about forgiveness. People do shitty things when they are hurting. Send me a msg if u need to talk.

— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) January 19, 2015

It is hard to say whether or not this Dildo Baggins person really is a 14-year-old kid working through the pain of losing his mother. It is hard to say whether the person behind this moniker really did learn something here. I would like to believe that this was the case, but it really isn't the point. Ijeoma Oluo's boundless capacity for love and wisdom is the point.

I never advocate engaging trolls on social media. This is what they want, to inflict pain for the fun of it and rarely have an epiphany about the destruction of their behavior. But if you do decide to feed one, Ijeoma Oluo has just beautifully shown you how it's done.