Posted on 05/20/2018 10:22:13 AM PDT by Cubs Fan
White people can be exhausting.
“It’s work to be the only person of color in an organization, bearing the weight of all your white co-workers’ questions about Blackness.
“It’s work to always be hypervisible because of your skin — easily identified as being present or absent — but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you.
“It’s work to do the emotional labor of pointing out problematic racist thinking, policies, action and statements while desperately trying to avoid bitterness and cynicism.
“Quite frankly, the work isn’t just tedious. It can be dangerous for Black women to attempt to carve out space for themselves — their perspective, their gifts, their skills, their education, their experiences — in places that haven’t examined the prevailing assumption of white culture. The danger of letting whiteness walk off with our joy, our peace, our sense of dignity and self-love, is ever present. As a black woman working in white spaces, my perception of racial dynamics has been questioned, minimized, or denied altogether.”
These words are from Austin Channing Brown’s new book, “I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,” released this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
There are a bunch in Africa.
They NEED her expertise!
-—I have never asked a black co-worker questions about their blackness nor have I ever seen someone do so.——
Nor have I...
That's not invented. Just the other day a black woman asked me if I wanted to feel her hair. I said "Hell yeah, I thought you'd never ask". And I do remember in grade school when a black family moved in to our all white neighborhood, their two boys had their heads rubbed so often it's a wonder they didn't go bald.
Interesting you should mention that -
In the 70's I wore my hair 'feathered.' In choir the black girls that sat behind me often would just touch & actually flip my hair, esp the feathered sides. They said they couldn't figure out how hair so thin could stay layered like it did.
I'm pretty sure if I started doing the same, without asking, to their hair I'd get flack for it. Especially these days.
Nobody know de trouble I seen . . .
BTW - I’m a white, blonde female.
Since I’m not a black feral, all I can do is parrot back the whiteness ...
Wouldn’t this person be happier in Somalia or perhaps Zimbabwe? There are probably planes leaving every week, if not more often.
White male and #Metoo:
Somehow on me it didn't look as good as the guys on the cover of Tiger Beat LOL
More like a world made BY Whiteness. Go back to your jungles if you don’t like running water, toilets, cell phones, email, antibiotics, cars, air travel, or other horrible evils of ‘whiteness’.
Alas, there are few alive like him today
Fire!
I suggest she get off her pity-party and start doing the work she was assigned. Were she to stop pushing her “color” in everyone’s face, she would most likely be a lot more comfortable in any setting. Her inadequacies are NOT white people’s fault! Stop whining; stand on your own feet, stop leaning on someone’s leg, and start depending upon yourself.
There are several Negro families in my parish and a couple singles. In the parish hall and in meetings of various parish groups one cannot discern the presence of racial
differences other than by sight and that is barely if at all noticed by those present.
Yesterday, out of boredom, I browsed YouTube for Royal Wedding videos. (I know)
The comment sections on every Royal Wedding video were ignorant SJW trash. Almost every comment was about race. Race, Race, Race!
Most were from black racists who were posting tripe such as “Meghan Markle is 100% Black because Black is stronger than White.”
There were several posters celebrating the fact that Harry and Meghan’s babies would be black so the Royal Family was now officially black.
The comments were all about Black Superiority and White Fragility. Unfortunately, the White commenters were the usual cucks who wanted to be nice to the black racists.
I admit, I posted some replies to some of the worst offenders and I triggered them pretty good. It was fun.
My point is that the wedding, like everything else, was all about race. I’m beyond sick of it.
From what I have read, Liberian natives absolutely despise American Black people. It’s said their attitude is that everyone owes them something.
To bad they don’t admit it is not skin color - it is just Marxism.
We girls were crazy about him around 1977 ...
“The danger of letting whiteness walk off with our joy, our peace, our sense of dignity and self-love, is ever present. As a black woman working in white spaces, my perception of racial dynamics has been questioned, minimized, or denied altogether.”
Lady, if you’re that miserable here, perhaps it would be best if you moved to the Dark Continent. No doubt you’d fine peace, harmony, and happiness there as a black woman working in black spaces. Adios.
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