Posted on 10/01/2015 12:12:47 PM PDT by rightistight
Writing for the Huffington Post, Amelia Shroyer wants white people to know that their feelings and "fragility" are getting black people killed.
Her article, titled "White Fragility Is Racial Violence," begins by saying, "White people, we are massively failing with our white fragility. When we are asked to do the very least in empathetic listening, we center entire conversations around our own feelings."
Shroyer continues, "As white people living in white supremacy we have the power to take that focus because society values our words more than those of people of color."
Get over your feelings about being called a racist, Shroyer writes, because if you're white, you've done something racist anyway. "The fact is, if you're white in America, you've likely said, thought, or done something racist," she states bluntly. "It's just a fact. We were all brought up in a white supremacist culture."
Stop being afraid of being called a racist and realize that you likely are one, she writes. "By resisting (or even embracing) fear, guilt and shame we can open ourselves up to conversations about race that actually create a deeper understanding," Shroyer adds.
White people are wantonly killing black people and getting away with it, she goes on. "I don't have to live with the weight of knowing I can be gunned down in the street for no reason and my murderer would get away with it," Shroyer argues. "I don't ever have to contemplate how to prepare my child for a world that will fear, dehumanize and underestimate them. I cannot fathom that. I also cannot imagine carrying the weight of this knowledge only to be asked to educate the same people who resist listening to my reality."
Shroyer then calls on white people to end racism. "White people, we can do better. We can sit with our friends of color and feel our emotions without coopting [sic] their grief."
She then states that white people are still oppressing African Americans, writing, "We can do our own labor to educate ourselves, and find new sources of information to take the burden of our own ignorance off the people we have oppressed for centuries."
Ms. Shroyer ends her article, "We've got to do better. People are dying out here."
Holy Cr@p!
Screw you. I’m not taking responsibility fof blacks attacking blacks. Ever. The author is deranged. A backlash is coming. See Trump, Donald.
Who isn't sick to death of their incessant mewling.
I am white. I hate anybody who does not love this country as it was founded. I hate anybody who wants a free ride off society and has no ambition to at least try to do better. I hate anybody who prefers to live outside the bounds of morality and commit crimes. I pray for those that do not know the Lord. I hate mean and rude people. I hate bullies.
If I am a racist then I am good with that.
Conceptually, this brings back images of people walking along narrow streets of a medieval city, flagellating themselves, step by step. That is really not the way to improve anyone's culture.
+1
Amelia: Projecting your own feeling of inadequacy and white guilt on others is a sign that you are mentally ill.
Get some help now!
Sincerely,
Sigmund Freud
It’s full out war on white people. We’ve got to stop being PC wimps and start kicking ass.
What feelings about being called a racist? I react to that the same as I react to being called a tomato - I don't even have to think to know it has no connection to reality. The Race Card is so worn out I don't bother giving it the slightest consideration any more. It's time to move beyond the politics of race hustling, especial for the followers of professional racists. It is time to judge everyone as individuals, by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
That might be fun to do with the new Bag-O-Glocks (patent pending).
She's on HuffPo and is into playing with Rocket Propelled Grenades? Dear Lord - She's a terrorist!
I have. It was eye opening. Parts of downtown Seattle are similar.
She has chosen to live in Berlin.No MLK Blvd there.
Feelings are reactions to mental stimuli. Therefore, she needs to do some research on how many black people are killed by white people, how many black people are killed by black people and how many white people are killed by black people. Then I will ask her how she feels.
Same here. I feel the same when I’m called a misogynist.
I admit, it is almost on par with this, for entertainment value: Tree Huggers mourn the loss of an Old Growth Tree.
Yet more convoluted racialist horse sh*t.
Empathy towards others is a good thing.
Uncritically buying off on accusations that you are personally responsible for the others’ misery is a means for being controlled.
Backwards again. Following the Alinksyite dictum of presenting the communist aggressor standpoint as belonging to the opponent, to put them on the defensive.
“I don’t have to live with the weight of knowing I can be gunned down in the street for no reason and my murderer would get away with it”
And yet, yes she does, because she lives in Berlin, and therefore faces this danger every day from unassimilated islamics. And further, she faces this danger for several reasons: she’s white, she’s female, and she’s gay. And she’d face two of those three if she lived here in the US, and it would be coming from the blacks she purports to cherish.
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