Perhaps which is always why the White Savior trope is tiring.

Whatup, Rewind?

Some of the most determined, dedicated activists in North Carolina - and I mean, SERIOUS protestors, like getting arrested multiple times protesting - are old white people. They are 1) aging hippies, 2) have the time, and 3) are retired so they don’t have to worry about arrests keeping them from getting hired. And…

I can’t answer for Sandy, but I am a 46 year old white lady and I read theroot often - found it about a year ago I think. I was first linked up in a feminist pro Hillary Clinton facebook group. I learn SO MUCH reading this site. I am so glad this space is here.

She still should have said something.

Every problem within the black communitiy is directly attributable to white supremacy and he trying kick some bullshit like this?? SMH

They will and they are lol

But let’s be honest: it’s unlikely it will be a white artist who does this... I can’t even fathom of who is writing music that could possibly reach that white audience to fundamentally change them and who doesn’t have a terrible record with race.

saw this video pop up on my FB feed the other night, watched a bit of it then decided to watch cat videos. at least that way I’d watch something useful.

So... he just repackaged “Accidental Racist”?

So basically this song is...

I agree with your criticisms. Let’s be distracted by clever word play over a hot track. Although I’ll admit there is some substantive lyrical content here, this a gross misdiagnosis of racial division, historically and in contemporary America. Racial division isn’t about mutual misunderstanding between blacks and…

“The analogy doesn’t seem to work because our country doesn’t believe it was as serious and destructive and transformative and evil as the Holocaust was. And we still don’t fully acknowledge the pervasive residue of slavery and the metaphysical construct and constraint of racism still existing today. We haven’t…

Just a note from a whitesplaining musician: Kumbaya (“Come By Here” in the original Gullah) was an invocation of God by Georgia Sea Island slaves, brought to the US by Southern blacks and the Freedom Riders, co-opted by the white folk movement to be sung around a campfire with a guitar. “Kumbaya shit,” as it would…

He tried.

Get that boy TF outta here. I didn’t know who he is or what he does but that shit wasn’t cute AT ALL. Where TF his Mama and nim at? Huh? Who looked at that bullshit and said ok?

The most obvious part, after watching this three times now, is that the black guy’s rebuttal is weak as fuck.

But his overall rebuttal is more “racism is why I do these bad things”

Saw this on CNN today. Even as a white guy, I thought “white people are going to be patting themselves on the back for watching this.”

Glad to know there’s still another person loving Jesus Christ Superstar the way I am. And of course, you’re article is completely on point. Why do we consider the shitbag racists’ view at all?