Posted on 03/17/2017 1:09:55 PM PDT by rightistight
Justin Cohen, a contributor to the Huffington Post and former member of the education policy committee for President Obama's 2008 campaign, stated that his goal for 2017 is to have white people realize that we're all on the "racism spectrum" and that white people need to stop being so "sensitive" about being called racist.
His article, titled "Three New Year’s Resolutions For White America," detailed what he is working towards in the new year.
"Resolution #1: We resolve to stop being so damned sensitive about the word “racism,”" Mr. Cohen writes. "Racism warrants discussion, but White people put too many conditions on the discussion of the phenomenon... We do not have the luxury to orchestrate conversations about racism so that they’re more comfortable for tepid White people."
To this end, all white people need to understand that they are, at least, a little racist against people of color.
"Resolution #2: We resolve to realize that all White people are participating in racism," he writes, saying that people born a certain race automatically have a specific attribute.
"That’s right, I said all. Sorry to burst your bubble, White lady wearing an “Assata Taught Me” t-shirt," Mr. Cohen explains. "The majority of our people sided with the Ku Klux Klan to elect an overt bigot as president... All of us are on the racism spectrum until further notice."
Mr. Cohen's third resolution is to "resolve to organize our people around anti-racist ideas."
He writes, "For centuries, being White in America meant reaping unearned power and advantages, relative to people who are not White. America’s power structure, to an almost comical degree, still reflects that version of Whiteness."
Mr. Cohen concludes, "Anti-racist White people must continue to make racism unacceptable, otherwise the White supremacist vision will continue to build power. And win."
Fine. I guess I am just a racist.
The Christian and Jewish dhimmi who self-flagellated and demonized their own group the most were often made leaders of their community.
It is like the female Kuwaiti Muslim legislator who advocated bringing back sex slavery ... if you elevate the dominant ideology well enough and make your superiors feel better about themselves, they’ll give you a middling level of status that is the highest you’ll ever achieve.
not me
I believe in free will and individualism and not determinism and collectivism. Each person should be judged as an individual according to their own personal decisions. I have no white guilt, white self-doubt, or white self-hatred.
No one cares what this hufffpost loser says about anything. To paraphrase the comedian George Wallace “They need their ass kicked”.
Way ahead of him. I don’t care if you call me racist since I’m not.
I’m an idiocist. And liberals are idiots.
All except yourself, right Cohen?
I’m not a racist, I’m a realist.
You're too late. I said that when I read the title.
Looks just as I expected.
I’m not “sensitive” about being called “racist”, actually, I don’t care one way or the other.
This race shit has been going on for about 60 years, and every concession whites have made, has just generated more whiney excuses to play the infamous “race card”.
Talk about race? Impossible! It’s a one sided affair. Any points brought up by whites is loudly filibustered, or threatened. With militant minorities, it’s their way, or the highway.
It’s “gimme, gimme, gimme”, and if we don’t it’s “riot, riot, riot”. It’s a losing proposition, and not worth the effort, or the time.
You cannot compromise with unreasonable people.
Whites have enough challenges in the own day-to-day lives, without being pulled into the self-infused lives of others based on a fact that no one can help, or change...namely, skin color.
So, you can call me “cracker”, “whitey”, “doughboy”, or even “racist”...it doesn’t faze me one bit, for I know who, and what I am. I’m not ashamed of my race, and frankly, there’s more important things in life.
And all HuffPo writers are on the traitor spectrum until further notice.
Justin Cohen is wrong. From the time I was a little child I was taught that all people were created equal, at home, in school, at church, virtually every place I was exposed to.
It ticks me off when people like Cohen accuse all people of thinking like they do.
That’s good news. Time for the rabid dog to star biting its owner. Then maybe its owner will get some common sense.
If this guy is even Jewish—these kind are often the result of intermarriage—then Aaron the High Priest must be rolling in his grave, that his seed came to such a mundane dead end like this libtard fool.
Excellent point. When you have no workable policies and nothing constructive to say, you just default to: ‘rayciss!’ And ‘Hitler!’.
Makes perfectly good sense to me. They’re also rayciss.
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