Posted on 09/02/2015 3:31:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Like many 40-something White liberals, I too assume I'm relatively open-minded and conscious of my white privilege. "I'm not a racist," I say to myself, when images of police brutality flash on the screen. "I'm not like those white people."
Or am I?
Like me, you probably voted for Barack Obama, were outraged by the verdicts in the Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. You even work hard to check your white privilege at the door when going to a #blacklivesmatter protest march.
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Like it or not, White superiority is well defended and protected. It may be unintentional. It's likely unconscious. Without more introspection and sincere interaction, the racism train keeps rolling.
Right now, you might feel angry and misjudged.
Maybe you're a white liberal shaking your head, feeling slighted and angered by the lack of acknowledgement, regarding your efforts and accomplishments concerning racial sensitivity. After all, white liberals are the white folks who really get it. Right?
Wrong. This is, in fact, another microinvalidation. Beverly and Pendler call that particular microaggression "attack by racial resume." We say, "Look at all the work I've done on behalf of people of color! I'm one of the good ones!"
If you're still with me, and aren't in total denial, consider these 10 ways white liberals engage in subtle racism, as offered in Pendler and Beverly's The Racism Rootkit: Understanding the Insidiousness of white Privilege:
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
NAACP
BLM
UNCF
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11. Not giving our children home-made ghetto names
11. Liberal Douchebaggery
But click the link. Huffingtom Post of all places! The last place you'd expect to find an open honest assesment of white liberal racism.
FTA... When a white liberal's guilt runs amuck, it may become a deep-seated need to take his or her racial lumps. Taking the neighborhood's homeless black man in for a meal may help him, but does the giving come from a place of joy or guilt? What happens when he steals from you?
Seriously. Tears will flow when you read this. Either from laughter or gleeful satisfaction.
Is this guy a loony — or is he just stupid?
I am a White Conservative and don’t hate Blacks any more than the White guy that is trying to rob me.
Is this guy a loony — or is he just stupid?
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He’s a liberal. ‘Nuff said.
I learned a new word today! “microinvalidation”- hooray for me!
After reading this article, these white liberals must be twisting themselves in knots trying to know exactly how to behave.
It’s so liberating having absolutely no concerns or guilt.
I thought this had to be satire or at least irony but it wasn't - so it's even funnier!
I am who I am. Deal with it. In exchange I’ll deal with you as you are. Deal?
It’s not wholly open and/or honest, but it does perform vital iconoclasm in many key areas.
He seems to be making the case of racism being in liberal “DNA” on one hand, but then extending it to everyone on the other.
Is a microinvalidation some sort of a passive microagression? The “micro” part is certainly consistent with my concerns about it.
White liberals are the most racist people on earth.
He apparently hasn’t figure out yet that he is being repeatedly punked by the race pimps.
There will be no rest for clowns right that — they will always be victimized by their own willful gullibility.
Moron: if you buy into the idea of “white privilege” you CAN’T check it at the door.
All I see is a list basically telling white people to shut up and let black people monopolize the conversation. You have nothing to add to debate.
Not happening anytime soon here.
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