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Dear White America
NY Times ^ | 12/24/15 | George Yancy

Posted on 12/27/2015 11:46:05 AM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

If you are white, and you are reading this letter, I ask that you don't run to seek shelter from your own racism. Don't hide from your responsibility. Rather, begin, right now, to practice being vulnerable. Being neither a "good" white person nor a liberal white person will get you off the proverbial hook. I consider myself to be a decent human being. Yet, I'm sexist. Take another deep breath. I ask that you try to be "un-sutured." If that term brings to mind a state of pain, open flesh, it is meant to do so. After all, it is painful to let go of your "white innocence," to use this letter as a mirror, one that refuses to show you what you want to see, one that demands that you look at the lies that you tell yourself so that you don't feel the weight of responsibility for those who live under the yoke of whiteness, your whiteness.

I can see your anger. I can see that this letter is being misunderstood. This letter is not asking you to feel bad about yourself, to wallow in guilt. That is too easy. I'm asking for you to tarry, to linger, with the ways in which you perpetuate a racist society, the ways in which you are racist. I'm now daring you to face a racist history which, paraphrasing Baldwin, has placed you where you are and that has formed your own racism. Again, in the spirit of Baldwin, I am asking you to enter into battle with your white self. I'm asking that you open yourself up; to speak to, to admit to, the racist poison that is inside of you.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academicbias; america; black; endwhiteshaming; georgeyancy; liberalbigot; naughtyteacherslist; racistpoison; sexist; waronwhites; white
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To: Libloather

The projection is extremely strong in this Yancy.

Racist is as racist writes.


61 posted on 12/27/2015 12:22:22 PM PST by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Libloather

The only people perpetrating racism today, aside from a few crack pots here and there are blacks and their so called ‘leaders.’ I have been called racist every day since Obama came on the stage. Now, with BLM and other nonsense, it’s twice a day.

Fine. I’m incurably racist. Holder and Obama says it is in my DNA to be racist. Leave me be. Leave US be. And by US I mean all the other people who achieve success from all over the world in this nation. Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Africans are all doing fine with our racist DNA and don’t need the likes of George Yancy to certify us “racist free” through years of self flagellation.


62 posted on 12/27/2015 12:22:26 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: dp0622

Oh, God will take good note of that. Don’t know if you like to hear it quoted back to you from the Throne though.


63 posted on 12/27/2015 12:22:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Libloather

You forgot the rest of this joke...

“Dad, What’s welfare?”

“Son that’s when some people buy rims, tattoos, and drugs but don’t have no job so we work and give them our money.”

“Dad, then what racism.”

“Son, that’s when we complain about it.”


64 posted on 12/27/2015 12:24:10 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Libloather
With age comes perspective, so I can't say I'm overly upset by this ridiculous screed. Twenty years from now this momentary racist chic is going to look as dated as hula hoops and just as intellectually significant.

Academia's last foray into advanced racial theory and despised populations did not end happily for its adherents, but after the defeat of Nazi Germany and their subsequent universal shunning enough time has elapsed to grow another crop, apparently. Only thing is, this time the targets are armed.

65 posted on 12/27/2015 12:24:22 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: HiTech RedNeck

i’ll roll the dice


66 posted on 12/27/2015 12:24:58 PM PST by dp0622 (i)
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To: Libloather

Sorry, I’m fresh out of “give a damn”...


67 posted on 12/27/2015 12:25:22 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: TLI
He's been actively pursuing the NYSlimes Best Seller list...


68 posted on 12/27/2015 12:26:17 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Starstruck
We occasionally have black driver deliver pizza in our neighborhood, which is probably 90% white and 10% assorted other colors including mixed like me. He likes our neighborhood because the people are nice, tip modestly but fairly (it is a working class neighborhood) and has never had any incidents of feeling unsafe. I know this because his mother is one of my co-workers and his brother mowed our lawn before he graduated from college and went on to bigger and better things.

Meanwhile, in the nearby city of Pittsburgh (40 Miles SE of here) there are certain neighborhoods where pizza delivery drivers will not even go due to crime and non-white racism.

69 posted on 12/27/2015 12:28:10 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Libloather
Author's email address:

gyancy@emory.edu

70 posted on 12/27/2015 12:31:06 PM PST by matt1234 (Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
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To: Libloather

The party of Obama, Clinton, Reid, and Pelosi is the plantation party. What have blacks gotten for their votes. They’ve been brainwashed with all the “Great Society” handouts that will never raise them out of poverty like a job can. Obama is hell bent on destroying as many jobs as he can with his war on energy and his onerous regulations. The Democrats want everyone to experience poverty. Been there done that, got a better job, worked my ass off, saved and retired. This guy needs to experience the society he loves to write about - like the one his buddy Obama is creating.


71 posted on 12/27/2015 12:31:58 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Libloather
Well, I have to commend him on one thing: I finally understand the argument. I don't buy into it, but I understand it now.

A black person can think, utter, and act on the most evil, vile racist ideas against white people, but that is irrelevant, because blacks can't prosper due to white men controlling all aspects of the world.

But, a white person is racist regardless of whether they think, utter, or act out any pronounced racism, even if they outwardly help black people, because that help is designed to promote the black person in the white man's world.

So, racism is racist, apathy is racist, and assistance is racist, until it's a black world -- got it.

72 posted on 12/27/2015 12:32:35 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: vette6387
It would appear to me that the only thing that has changed in the last 200 years is the color of the slaves.

Sure, if you don't count the beatings and families getting broken up and sold down river.

The NYT puts out stuff like this as provocation, probably intended to get knee-jerk attack responses that it can use against people who disagree with their views.

73 posted on 12/27/2015 12:34:23 PM PST by x
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To: HiTech RedNeck
In other words he is interested in illogical hocus pocus word games which get to damn people he does not like, but never need to back it up.

Exactly.

The fine art of the drive-by racist.

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74 posted on 12/27/2015 12:34:31 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Libloather

“You see, at the time I was misquoted. I never said ‘The Super-man exists and he is American’, what I said was ‘*God* exists and he is American’. Now if you begin to feel an intense and crushing feeling of religious terror at the concept, don’t be alarmed. That indicates only that you are still sane.”


75 posted on 12/27/2015 12:35:44 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Libloather

What is a “rim?”


76 posted on 12/27/2015 12:36:55 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore)
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To: Lonely Bull

More Marxist PC control.


77 posted on 12/27/2015 12:39:15 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: TLI
critical whiteness studies

As in different shades?

78 posted on 12/27/2015 12:40:25 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Cobra64

79 posted on 12/27/2015 12:42:02 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: vette6387

Excellent observation.


80 posted on 12/27/2015 12:42:11 PM PST by Hulka
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