Posted on 07/19/2017 6:17:36 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A New York University librarian recently felt compelled to pen a blog post bemoaning the “racial fatigue” she experiences “in the presence of white people” following an academic conference. April Hathcock said that she “hit her limit” after spending five days “being tone-policed and condescended to and ‘splained to” by "white men librarians" and "nice white ladies."
A New York University librarian recently bemoaned the “racial fatigue” she experiences “in the presence of white people” following an academic conference.
April Hathcock, a Scholarly Communications Librarian at NYU, recently attended the annual American Library Association [ALA] conference in Chicago, a trade conference for people in the library profession.
"It[']s been 5 straight days of being tone-policed and condescended to and ‘splained to." Tweet This
Right after the conference, Hathcock took to her personal blog to describe her “Post-ALA Race Fatigue,” lamenting that she was suffering from “serious race fatigue” after spending five days amongst her colleagues [emphasis in original].
“Race fatigue is a real physical, mental, and emotional condition that people of color experience after spending a considerable amount of time dealing with the micro- and macro-aggressions that inevitably occur when in the presence of white people,” Hathcock wrote. “The more white people, the longer the time period, the more intense the race fatigue.”
While Hathcock noted that she is normally exhausted after such conferences for reasons unrelated to racial issues, she said that this time she “hit her limit” after spending five days “being tone-policed and condescended to and ‘splained to.”
Hathcock offered a litany of complaints about her fellow conference attendees, including the “white men librarians” who “complain about being a ‘minority’ in this 88% white profession.”
She also slammed the “nice white ladies” who told her to be “civil” and “professional” when she tried to “talk about the importance of acknowledging oppression and our profession’s role in it.”
Hathcock concluded by acknowledging that even though there were positive aspects of the conference, such as meeting new friends of color, she was nonetheless exhausted by the entire ordeal.
“Luckily, the rest of my summer will be spent going on vacation with family,” she concluded. “And when I get back to it all, I’ll keep on fighting, bearing in mind the inspiring words Dr. Hayden imparted to us at the Spectrum celebration: ‘You gotta be in the room. You gotta be at the table. You gotta fight.’”
Hathcock did not respond to multiple requests for comment from Campus Reform
I have no doubt that this is entirely correct.
Snowflake.......................oops! Sorry, April, they’re white, too!...............
This black person's complaint might be spot on, but her problem might have nothing to do with white people. It might be 100% because of liberal dirt bags.
In sum, it was very difficult for her to spend five days acting professional, being courteous to strangers, respecting others for their positions and achievements and in turn, being respected herself in a similar way.
Its called “acting like an adult.”
It sounds like someone making excuses for being racist. “Flip the script”, and see how people would react to a white person saying that they experience “Race Fatigue” when dealing with black people.
She was surrounded by LIBERAL WHITE PEOPLE FULL OF GUILT, so no wonder.......................
WHat an uppity racist POS, she should be FIRED immediately
Plenty of historically black colleges out there she could apply to for a position and segregate/isolate herself into happiness.
It’s still a somewhat free country, nobody’s gonna stop her from leaving!
What the world’s racist blacks need is their own continent
Too bad there isn’t another continent that could be like a giant “safe room” for racist blacks like April Hathcock who cannot stand being around white people.
It would be populated almost entirely by blacks so she wouldn’t be bothered by our pasty white faces.
It would be called “The Dark Continent”.
Ideally it would be separated from “white” America by large oceans on either side so April would feel protected from America and the awful culture that causes her and others so much trauma.
There would be huge jet airplanes flying there every day from America so racist blacks could get move there quickly and easily in no time at all.
And there would be many, many of the unbearable whites who would happily pay for their tickets.
That’s a WIN-WIN in anybody’s book!
'Acting' civilized too exhausting for her?
Yep, she is a charming Negress isn’t she??? (sarcasm)
She could work on her attitude, is all I can say. What a terrible unprofessional attitude she has.
Well what a surprise! Could she be inadvertently revealing the fact that the overwhelming majority of patrons of libraries are .........the same people who work and pay taxes so incompetent sorry-a$$ affirmative action hires like her can b!tch and moan about all those White people!
>>It sounds like someone making excuses for being racist.
IIRC from boot camp - Excuses are like a certain part of anatomy.
Everybody has one and not only do they all stink... but, Mizz Hathcock will be “fatigued” to know, they’re all the same color on the inside!
Do they actually have white librarians at NYU? That’s a surprise. In my home town the ads for local university librarians always carried “minority applicants preferred” or something to that effect.
Just got back from vacation in North Carolina.
Went to tour a nice game refuge. There were a few New Yorkers there. We ALL knew who they were.
Yes, we have a similar fatigue called “Liberal fatigue” or “BS fatigue.”
Yes, desegregation is tedious at times but we’ve had to just deal with it since it was imposed by force of law, so I suppose you can manage too, dear. We’re not all that bad, really.
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