‘Dear White America’: Black Professor’s Open Letter Asks Readers to ‘Admit’ to the ‘Racist Poison That Is Inside of You’
Dear Professor Yancey,
Whatever !!!!
Mears
Dear Professor,
If holding certain black individuals in utter contempt makes me a racist in your eyes, then I must confess that by your definition I am a racist.
Yours in contempt,
White America
Hi,
My name is Marko.....
and I’m a racist.
The racist is always the first to scream racism.
So 0bama, being half-white, is only half-racist?
Have you ever had to deal with a sociopath? If you have, you will likely have noticed that when they do something wrong (regardless of whether it was deliberate and intentional or whether it was just a mistake), their immediate response is to point the finger and blame someone else. Their primary concern is to absolve themselves of any responsibility for the problem they have created. They are not concerned about fixing the problem. They are only concerned with getting themselves off the hook and foisting the problem on someone else.
This applies to any problem they encounter, but especially to those problems they have caused themselves.
It is very difficult to fix a problem when the problem is shrouded in lies. They lie about the very existence of the problem. You can’t fix a problem that you won’t admit exists. If you finally do admit it exists, it is far more difficult to fix if you won’t admit the causes and instead spend all your effort trying to deflect any blame from yourself.
When a problem has multiple causes, as many complex problems do, spending your time and effort trying to force others to fix it instead of doing what you can to fix the part of it that you caused or have control over is the strategy of a sociopath and a loser. For him it is much easier to whine, blame, and play victim than it is to make any genuine effort. Pretending to be a victim is a role that has become all too comfortable and familiar. Being a hard-working problem solver would require the sociopath to move out of his comfort zone.
Oprah once asked her audience, which was mostly white, to stand up and apologize for slavery. It was at the end of a show she did on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemming’s descendants but you won’t find it on youtube or anywhere.
Dear black people, please consider the behaviors in your community which may lead to racism against blacks. I have neither the time, patience or will to be all inclusive so I will just hit a few high notes.
Under-performance: Except for athletics, entertainment and crime, blacks significantly under perform virtually nearly all groups. This is certainly the case in academics, but also in the workplace. Blacks consistently fail to meet long standing requirements for jobs such as firemen, police, and other civil service positions that are easily met by other groups. This is even true AFTER standards are lowered in an attempt to increase diversity. Whether this results from cultural, genetic or environmental factors is unknown but it does not improve people’s opinion of your group. You need to step up your game in a major way.
Crime: The statistics on rape, robbery, drug use and murder speak for themselves and they are NOT due to profiling, racist cops, selective prosecution, sentencing laws etc. Until you recognize and address this as a real problem not caused by Whitey, negative stereotypes about blacks are not going to improve.
Black culture: So called Black culture focusing on victimization, racial grievance, and government dependence is self destructive and has been disastrous for blacks. The pathway for success in the US (a good education, hard work, avoid crime and drugs) is the same for blacks and whites. With affirmative action any black who even remotely sticks to the path is almost guaranteed success. The problem is that many blacks reject that roadmap as a betrayal of their culture.
Racism goes away when people realize that is useless at predicting behavior, capability, and attitudes. Basically the outside group shows they are essentially the same as everyone else. For one reason or another blacks have not been willing or able to do this.
You liberal blacks are the true racists...you hate America and Americans!
This obsession of certain blacks to have whites admit their "racism" does nothing to help blacks. At the end of all the confessing, blacks will be exactly the same place they were before. Because racism has nothing to do with where blacks are. Blacks are responsible for where blacks are
George, check your “Bell Curve”.
Yeah, when Sharpton, Farrakan and Obama do. Until then, shove off.
seems “prof” yancy is a racist all by himself.
(he should look in the mirror)
You first.
I have no interest in the subject.
Those who look at the world through a lens of race are by definition, racists.
Wake up racists! The world wants you to “man up” and live by the content of your character and not the color of your skin!
Desktop this/bookmark it - or you’ll never find it again
use liberally along with MLK’s ‘co;or of their skin’
post THE LINK it everywhere - especially in confronting the real racists - make them refute it
Booker T. Washington
“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.â€
―Booker T. Washington
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Meh.
gyancy@emory.edu