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."
One of the most obnoxiously racist stupid pieces ever written.
Good grief. I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help despising the fools who write this kind of dreck.
Feelings can’t be seen and violence is acted out.
The two don’t meet IMO.
Am I racist if I hate stupid, self-hating white liberals like the one who wrote this drivel?
“Get over your feelings about being called a racist,”
Thanks, I already have. I wear it as a badge of honor instead.
Just being White is racist.
OOOOoooooh, the White Guilt I now feel is overcoming me. I better deny my White Privilege and go down to Martin Luther King Blvd. and patronize some black businesses.
Put her in a any city with a black mayor, black police chief and majority of blacks in the population and have her walk it at night to embrace her guilt...
Can someone post a pic of “oh jeez not this Sh*t again”.
Huff Post runs some pretty sick crap.
I suppose the mis-fits are the main audience
Idiot racism.
No, you untalented hack, whites are getting blacks killed. Black criminals get blacks killed. You ever been to the West End of Louisville, KY, after dark? No whites. Nada. Zilch. But plenty of crime. Shootings. Murder. Theft. Got the point?
She must be looking in a mirror & describing herself!
This is Goebbels level propaganda coming out of the press day after day....
Poor Amelia, she was never informed that crack is whack.
- Amelia Shroyer -
Amelia Shroyer is a native Texan who moved abroad in 2011 and works in social media marketing and translation. She is into writing, painting, playing classic adventure RPGs and revolutionary art. She writes regularly for Luna Luna Magazine, in addition to being an editorial assistant. She has a background in political science and French, and sings in a band called Fort Knightly. She currently lives in Berlin with her partner Nic and her cat Dakeeti.
We’re at that point I see, been there for years actually.
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