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White woman refuses to have kids because they would be white
Spero News ^ | 11/16/15 | Mari Jon

Posted on 11/16/2015 4:05:53 PM PST by markomalley

A white female professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in an article posted at the Huffington Post, said that she has chosen to never have children because her children would thus inherit white privilege.  Ali Michael, who teaches at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, was inspired by Rachel Dolezal: a white woman who identifies as black and who was the leader of Spokane’s NAACP branch. That Dolezal sought to forsake whiteness for a black identity, Michael said,  is actually routine among white people who oppose racism and white privilege.
 
“I sometimes don’t want to be white either,” Michael wrote. “There was a time in my 20s when everything I learned about the history of racism made me hate myself, my Whiteness, my ancestors… and my descendants. I remember deciding that I couldn’t have biological children because I didn’t want to propagate my privilege biologically.” To accomplish the eschewing of her prior identity, Michael lived with a black family, read exclusively black authors, and even shaved her head. 
 
Denouncing those who are unashamedly white, Michael wrote “I disliked my Whiteness, but I disliked the Whiteness of other White people more,” she writes. “I felt like the way to really end racism was to feel guilty for it, and to make other White people feel guilty for it too.”
 
Michael now says that whites should accept their racial identity rather than taking on a new one since that is the best way to feel guilty. “At the end of the day, we need White people to see that we are White,” wrote Michael. “When we recognize and own our Whiteness, we can account for our own portion, our one 1/billionth of responsibility for what White people have done throughout history. We can work with other White people to begin to challenge bias, ignorance and colorblindness. We can use our privilege to confront the sources of that unfair favoring.”
 
Michael continues to focus on racial identity in her academic work. Her research interests include “how white families racially socialize their children.” At her website, there are links to materials such as “10 Quick Ways To Analyze Children’s Books For Racism And Sexism.”
 
Here is an excerpt from Michael's article:
 
If I was going to pass on my privilege, I wanted to pass it on to someone who doesn't have racial privilege; so I planned to adopt. I disliked my Whiteness, but I disliked the Whiteness of other White people more. I felt like the way to really end racism was to feel guilty for it, and to make other White people feel guilty for it too. And then, like Dolezal, I wanted to take on Africanness. Living in South Africa during my junior year abroad, I lived with a Black family, wore my hair in head wraps, shaved my head. I didn't want to be White, but if I had to be, I wanted to be White in a way that was different from other White people I knew. I wanted to be a special, different White person. The one and only. How very White of me...


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1 posted on 11/16/2015 4:05:53 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Good news for the gene pool.


2 posted on 11/16/2015 4:06:42 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: markomalley

This is progress.


3 posted on 11/16/2015 4:06:58 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: markomalley

TransCrazy


4 posted on 11/16/2015 4:08:03 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: markomalley

Lucky kids!


5 posted on 11/16/2015 4:08:05 PM PST by pallis
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To: markomalley

The human race thanks you for not passing your stupidity genes along.

Now, perhaps you will complete the task humanity begs you to do and eliminate the source.


6 posted on 11/16/2015 4:08:13 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: markomalley

Really? So why are there so many abortions on black kids?


7 posted on 11/16/2015 4:08:17 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: markomalley

Society dodged a bullet.


8 posted on 11/16/2015 4:08:30 PM PST by .45 Long Colt
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To: markomalley

Big whoop. So be like the rest of women that think like this and hit it with a black guy.


9 posted on 11/16/2015 4:09:14 PM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: markomalley
I felt like the way to really end racism was to feel guilty for it, and to make other White people feel guilty for it too.

Right, because there is no neurosis like a shared neurosis. Her mental problem may be congenital, so good move, dear.

10 posted on 11/16/2015 4:09:16 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: markomalley

It’s Brian Williams.


11 posted on 11/16/2015 4:09:34 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: markomalley

This is like many of the white “blues” players, who remain unhappy because they could not have been born black.

Steve Martin did a hilarious movie on this topic— called “The Jerk” .

Only dumba@@ whites would respond in this way. That is to say- crazy people who have miles of unjustified guilt, and insanity in spades. Wouldn’t want them to have kids— white or black— cause they would be crazy.


12 posted on 11/16/2015 4:11:12 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: markomalley

She looks happy.


13 posted on 11/16/2015 4:11:22 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: markomalley

Tie her tubes now. And any other Gibsmedat or islam believing POS.


14 posted on 11/16/2015 4:11:28 PM PST by soycd
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To: markomalley

Good. Less liberals.

However, there aren’t many blacks who are 100% black so that throws a monkey wrench in her beliefs.


15 posted on 11/16/2015 4:11:40 PM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: markomalley

I’m thinking the real reason is she’s too heinous to even get laid by a drunken college kid.


16 posted on 11/16/2015 4:11:44 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: 867V309

Yes, we congratulate her for not reproducing


17 posted on 11/16/2015 4:12:52 PM PST by doug from upland (The ultimate in foolishness -- "'Romney is just as bad as Obama" WTF?)
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To: markomalley

A lot of Freepers discount Darwinism, but this is proof that it works.


18 posted on 11/16/2015 4:12:56 PM PST by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: markomalley

More evidence that liberalism is a mental illness. She could consider hooding up and having babies as black as our President.


19 posted on 11/16/2015 4:13:09 PM PST by jimmygrace
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To: markomalley

Probably for the best all around, especially for any potential kid that would end up having a complete loon for a parent.


20 posted on 11/16/2015 4:14:09 PM PST by Lorianne
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