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 professions 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, Ill 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
Well, there is always Somalia.
I hear it is nice this time of year.
I personally don’t miss NYC. At all.
Wait! What's that??
He *would* approve? *Wholeheartedly*?
Never mind!
When most people get sick and tired of retarded annoying idiots of other races they move to Utah. She should try it.
Reread the article and replace “white” with “black”.
Racism is ugly in all of its forms.
So then, the librarian profession is dominated by whites???
I didn’t know; I’ve dealt with librarians of many different ethnicities.
So then, what exactly is she saying, that it’s somehow negative, that there are so many whites in the library profession????
Maybe some blacks never leave the ghetto behind?? Maybe she should stay in the ghetto where she is surrounded by her homeboys and she can bitch about how rough her life is to sympathetic people?????
They won’t like their new Asian and Hispanic overlords if they ever achieve their dream of no white people. They have no leverage of “racism” at all with anyone else, but seem oblivious to that historic reality.
Librarians are 88% white. You have to be able to read to be a librarian.
Guess what, lady. I get race fatigue too, being around the loudness, the emotional knee jerk responses, the conversation as entertainment meme, the slang that I don’t get, the need to not offend, it’s exhausting. Welcome to the world.
I guess she would be happy if they had a blacks only lunch counter and whites rode in the back of the bus? The new world of segregation is coming to American.
Spot on.
Winner!
The libraries were I live were primarily white for years. Was a nice, quiet, not that busy place to read or study.
To be more ‘inclusive’ they decided to add computers and free internet. Now there are ‘youths’ playing video games constantly and folks searching for the latest Obama handout filling up the place. No problem as long as they’d be quiet, but apparently that’s a ‘white thing.’
White liberals being nice to the author of this piece gave her ‘race fatigue’? Had they ignored her she’d be writing a piece that ‘persons of color are routinely marginalized by libertarians.’
What has her fatigued is being a member of the victim class searching for offense where there is none. That is really opening a door to mental disorders of all sorts.
Considering ‘subconscious racism.’ The white person you’re talking to who is very friendly and voted for Obama twice is actually a hidden KKKer due to subconscious racism and micro aggressions reveal their evil nature.
That’s a hop skip and a jump away from paranoid delusion-filled schizophrenia.
The most efficient solution would be to remove white people from all college campuses. I suspect that has been contemplated by both these aggrieved Negroes and by white liberals. Removing the crackers from campus would have the additional benefit of ending Affirmative Action in college so that Negro grads don’t have that weight hanging around their necks.
You wanna talk about "Race Fatigue"? Born and raised NYC boy. Lived in Queens Co, for decades the most diverse (MANY ethnicities) county in this nation. Spent the last ten years of my working life in the streets, backyards, rooftops and basements of Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx.
But I found a cure. I moved out....to a county that is 97% white in a state that is 94% white.
Does that make me a racist? I don't know and I don't care.
Yea well, the rest of the country is suffering race fatigue from one-note racist librarians, politicians and self-righteous celebutantes.
the soft bigotry of low expectations, thanks Libs.....
Some people might consider that a racist comment.
Her observation is probably why so many “I feel your pain” white progressives moved out of Detroit, East Saint Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Camden, etc. Perhaps she would like the Deplorables more.
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So now white folks are guilty of going to study in a School Library. These people are insane.
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