It's OK to be white
The anti-black stuff, read Daryl Davis and his book ‘Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man’s Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan.’
Better yet, all that was described is mentioned by Daryl Davis when he interviewed a few KKK members (i.e.: specifically his interview with a guy named Roger Kelly) through the years, he describes such, near word for word.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGTQ0Wj6yIg
It’s all so tiresome.
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It's OK to be white
That's stupid.
The description is of the Protestant work ethic and associated values.
Just because one group of people (whites) supposedly holds certain values doesn't mean another group lacks those values.
Logic fail.
I still receive the far left Smithsonian Magazine. Have not paid for it in many years. The magazine goes directly into recycle. This year, Smithsonian blamed George Washington for starting the French-Indian War.
Very important post that without seeing I wouldn’t have believed it. Thanks.
These things are 100% right out of the Marxist teachings from the folks behind BLM.
Sounds more like liberal bigotry of low expectations about blacks.
The marxist Left has controlled the Smithonian for more than a generation. They had the audacity to portray the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as an example of American racism. the fact that it ended the war, saved millions of American and Japanese lives was ignored. It was also presented as an “in your face exhibit” meant to insult visiting American veterans. Congress at the time complained and the exhibit came down but there were no firings or reforms at the Smithsonian. You can easily get disgusted if you tour there museums on the mall.
These appear largely to be strategies for dealing with the challenges the industrialized international marketplace has presented our society since the 1950’s. The nuclear family as a stand-alone unit, for example, came into being when multiple generations could not be easily uprooted when a young man got a job in Detroit, but dad/mom/kids could move fairly easily. The postwar reliance on two parents vs generations of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins has destabilized society and given us the 60’s and chaos ever since. Depression era white families and earlier were largely multigenerational. I would strongly challenge the scapegoating of people based on skin color for practices that seemed like a good idea at the time but didn’t work out. Hindsight is 20/20.
Today’s world is much like the ancient world.
Acts 17:21
“For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.”—Luke
And our news media is good at finding the latest “New Thing!” to talk about, and if they can’t fine a “New Thing”, they will make something up.
Meanwhile, the rest of us go on about our business as usual.
I am reading the Ron Chernow bio of Washington (Washington: A Life) and the descriptions of slavery on Mt Vernon explain where the Black opposition the above qualities came from.
If you are a slave, your only way of rebelling is passive-aggressive behavior. You goof off whenever possible, you slow time down as much as possible, you are insolent but in very hard to detect ways, you don't perform well period.
If you work hard, if you are polite, organized or methodical...you are acting White.
Apparently this kind of thinking still abounds.
Are ya friggin kiddin me?!? Vat is dis "Has to hyphenate" crap?!?
Didn't "they" start the hyphenating BS?
This is unworthy of the Smithsonian and it does display a startlingly superficial and sophomoric approach to... in truth I wouldn’t dignify it with any discipline besides a tip of the hat to the graphic designer.
The United States and European cultures were built mainly by Whites. Blacks and other groups have contributed lots of labor but only marginally in essential areas. It’s not surprising that whites would build a culture based on the norms, values and behaviors they admire and which lead to success. Were the people in China expected to build a culture designed to make whites/Blacks/Indians feel comfortable? If white people go to live in China they have to adapt or they will feel like outsiders and not be successful. The nonsense taught in these classes are a recipe for chaos and cultural collapse. There are no norms, no universally accepted values or standards.
How much money does the Smithsonian get from the government?
This is no surprise. The Museum of Natural Science is like a big billboard for climate change and evolution.