Posted on 05/31/2015 10:18:25 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
What’s a white person to do?
Recently, I had the pleasure to participate in the Interplay Hip Hop Symposium at Lehigh University. The event was hosted by the inimitable hip hop theatre pioneer Kashi Johnson and keynoted by brilliant lyricist and hip hop educator Asheru. I gave a lecture about white appropriation of rap. My lecture led to a discussion about how white people fit into the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Together, we came up with these, the ten cracka commandments for 2015:
1. #AllLivesMatter won’t matter until #BlackLivesMatter. This commandment is a litmus test and the greatest commandment.
2. Always remember that white privilege is real, even if you do not understand it. Use it to convince other people that black lives, including black women's lives, matter. Show up for protests, write letters to representatives, and start discussions with other white people about black lives mattering.
3. Always remember that ignorance is real, and is a product of privilege. Treat the ignorant with compassion, but hold them accountable.
4. Never think that the critique does not apply to you. Just because you were at Barack’s inauguration and your dad was a freedom rider, or because you are the head of your local chapter of GLADD, that does not mean you do not have more work to do on yourself, your family, and your community.
5. Always remember that it is never a question of if violence, but whose violence are you going to defend. Unjust state-sanctioned and racist violence, or justified resistance; the choice is yours, the choice is ours.
6. Never tolerate racism from your friends or family. Whether it is coming from your eighteen-year-old friend, your thirty-one-year-old cousin, or your eighty-year-old grandmother, confront it always. Confronting racism does not mean you will lose your friend or family. It means you will help to make them act and think in less racist ways.
7. You cannot love cultural products without also loving the people who make those products. If you like black art or athletics, that appreciation is an entryway into recognizing that black lives matter.
8. Never quote black leaders like Dr. King in order to criticize protesters and activists.
9. Always embrace uncertainty. Life is uncertain; death is certain. Uncertainty promotes life; certainty produces death and destruction.
10. Never put white fragility ahead of justice. If you are more concerned to argue that you “aren’t racist” than you are with racism or with people dying, you’re priorities are skewed. Do you want justice or comfort?
Posted on May 22, 2015 by Christopher Driscoll and filed under Black Lives Matter and tagged #blacklivesmatter #sayhername Whiteness White American ten commandments activism hip hop.
Always remember that ignorance is real, and is a product of privilege.
So ignorant blacks are a product of Black Privilege???
They don't like being called out on their hypocrisy.
No mention of getting a job.
“black lives matter”
Bumper sticker mentality....
Rape..., murder...!
It’s just a kiss away....
Take aways...
Justified violent resistance,
Confrontation,
Marginalization of MLKs non violent approach,
Market choices based on ethnocentric perspective,
Ethnic privilege as fact requiring reeducation
What kinda cracker am I. Professorette of linguistics, Rachel Jentael, says there are crackers, and crackuhs. I didn’t hear about crackas. What’s a crackuh to do?
I guess calling me a cracka and demanding I conform to the invented black superiority movement is just fine. Sounds like Jim Crow is finding fertile ground in the “black lives only matter if one is put down while commiting a crime” movement.
Granny’s gonna need a few copies of the New York Times.
Its not just for birdcages any more.....
Ignore it and carry on.
5.56mm
#whiteguiltmatters
Blacks are slaughtering blacks by the tens of thousands every year in America.
DOES THAT MATTER?
Evidently not.
Years ago when MLK became a holiday ,one of my black co-workers said,This is a holiday for blacks, we should stay home on our holiday and let white people work.
The thought that went through my head,and what would be any different?
I tend to ignore ignorance .
“10. Never put white fragility ahead of justice. If you are more concerned to argue that you “aren’t racist” than you are with racism or with people dying, you’re priorities are skewed. Do you want justice or comfort?”
I don’t know what they are saying here?
Is this saying you should be willing to die rather than defend your life from a Black murderer in order to support the movement?
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