Any white person who takes offense at this, or says “But I’m the 37%” or any of that NotAll bullshit is just as much part of the problem as Freedom Caucasus and South Will Rise Again racists.
Chad Snowe-Flaque
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For all my fellow white folks in the comments here who have good intentions but are expressing you are upset at the wording here- please, go pick up and read Robin DiAngelo’s recent book:
This is re-post of my earlier post but it applies equally to this article:
As a white person...
This is not the America I want. I understand your reasoning, though.
This reads like an afterschool special. For those that have been to the museum don’t take them to the lynching display It may give these assholes ideas.
They need to make them all read the March trilogy by Rep. John Lewis. It’s graphic novels too so you don’t need to worry about advanced reading skills.
Everyone should read White Fragility
Hahaha, what the fuck is this? God forbid any of those recruits actually talk to a living, breathing black person to learn about “the black experience”. How about a victim of police brutality or the family of someone killed by the police comes in to talk to these recruits and forces them to see the real, human impact…
America has always been, for these people, code for WHITE. They don’t have any actual loyalty to this or any country, except when the functions of its state deliberately prop up white supremacy.
Nothing like a daytime trip to a museum to unwind the impact of thousands of years of tribalism!
This is one of the reasons I appreciate The Root.
Well, let me give full credit to Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility which I am currently reading, who opened my mind to this simple and powerful fact. Most white people put their comfort before all else, and once you realize that you see the world as it is.
Admittedly, I do possess an incremental sympathy for the white people who perhaps have been mischaracterized as shitty and self-destructive trash.
Or, to put it differently, if you’re saying “people are getting hurt and killed every day” and my response is “yeah but my feelings”, perhaps that makes me a chunk of shit whose fee-fees OUGHT to be hurt a little more often.
Most white people don’t want to be uncomfortable. Or challenged. Or changed.
They either voted for it, or they didn’t vote to stop it, or they voted to stop it only what they would call “duress”.
Come to California and watch the grass die.
In July, New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo choked unarmed black man Eric Garner to death, in broad daylight,…