10 Things We Want White People to Do to Celebrate Juneteenth
1) We want white people to deeply consider the wound of racism on the hearts of every Black American.
2) On Juneteenth we want white people to read, study Black history, Black poets, Black leaders, Black achievements.
3) We want white people to do things about racism as readily as they do things for their own children.
4) We want white people to make a list of resolutions, of promises, of vows about what will it take for them to use their power, their privilege, their platforms of power to give space to Black and Brown leaders.
5) We want them to find an accountability partner and make the list public of what actions they will take. They CAN do this on social media. A lot of those actions will be giving up privilege and making room for folks who they may not have noticed have no room at all.
6) We want white people to stop talking about how uncomfortable it is to talk about racism or police violence.
7) We want white people to stop being afraid of their own internalized white supremacy. We want them to search and look within at hard facts of thought and deed. Who cares about being comfortable? What about being true, brave and real instead?
8) Then we want white people to stop talking and listen to what needs to be done.
9) We want white people to plan on spending time in spaces with folks who are not like you.
10) We want white people to hold other white people accountable not on social media, instead with measured voices that call folks in to look and wrestle – to change. We are interested in courageous conversations, in hearing folks out and in allowing themselves to feel terrible and to let that feeling be a crucible for change.
“We want white people”...
blah, blah, blah. My woke company made this an annual holiday. I went out on the boat fishing.
Sounds like they want “Stephen” whites. (hat tip to Django Unchained)
If they’re against racism, why do they use Black (capitalized) and white (lower case)?
Oh damn. I stand corrected. If us horrible white folks do as demanded, can we then come to the party? I’m guessing no unless we bring a reparations offering. Lol.
I don’t care what they want.
Substitute “black people” for the phrase “white people” in that screed and see how it sounds.
The left would blow a gasket over the racism expressed in it.
Again, that BS about “conversation”.
It is NEVER a “conversation”.
It’s just a lecture at best, or a shout-down more likely.
“Whites”, or those who go against the premise, are NOT allowed to have a conversation. They are simply told what to do and think. Nay, YELLED at.
A couple for whoever prepared those ten items:
1) Give thanks to our government and the citizens who created it for their recognition that slavery needed to be eliminated.
2) Remember in your hearts the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, almost all white, that died in the war to free you
3) Be aware that, unlike our citizens in the Revolutionary War and other wars, you did not fight for your freedom. It was given to you.
first, i am a halfbreed, so this whole “toilet paper roll of an imaginery shopping list” does not concern me.
second, “yourlist” makes no concessions towards any member of the U.S. military. People who have given their lives, so that you can dream up this academic orgasm.
thank you for this long joke.
3) We want white people to do things about racism as readily as they do things for their own children.Such as:
That’s what they want.
What they may be getting is white people being increasingly fed up.
What a bunch of blather.
In other words, “we want black people to be in control. You whites will do what we want, when we want, and how we want. We win. You don’t matter”.
Eff that.
10 Things We Want White People to Do to Celebrate Juneteenth
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Yeah, right, we’ll get on that right away. Stick that list of 10 where the sun don’t shine!
I want black people to shut their whinny ass mouths, get off their butts and start working an honest job instead of beating the ‘’racism’’ drum.
10 Things We Want Black People to Do to Celebrate ______ (insert chosen holiday here)
1) We want Black people to deeply consider the wound of racism on the hearts of every White American. Racism needs to be eradicated, on either side.
2) On ______ we want Black people to read, study American history, the Democrat Party history and the achievements of the Republican Party on their behalf. We want our children, of all races, to learn the correct history (with all its ugliness and bravery) so that mistakes of the past will never happen again.
3) We want Black people to do things about racism as readily as they do things for their own children. Same goes for us.
4) We want Black people to make a list of resolutions, to stop the hate within their communities against Whites - even the subtle hate such as capitalizing the word “Black” on their original (yes, I saw that) list while using lower case for “White”.
5) We want them to recognize that virtue signaling is not solidarity, it's another form of racism and they shouldn't fall for it. They CAN and should do this on social media.
6) We want Black people to stop talking about White privilege because people of all races have privilege and those people are actually the minority of our society. It behooves them to pretend all White people have privilege because while we're so busy fighting amongst each other about a perceived privilege none of us have, they're robbing us all blind.
7) We want Black people to stop being so easily led around by race hustlers and politicians with made up stories about girls in garbage cans and a bad dude named Corn Pop and recognize that it's all theater designed to divide us and conquer. It's really them vs. all of us and at the end of the day, we'll be together in the trenches while they're in their luxurious bug-out shelters.
8) Then we want Black people to talk to us and we'll listen and we'll talk and they'll listen and together, we'll come to an agreement on what needs to be done to make ALL of our lives better.
9) We want Black people to plan on spending time in spaces with folks who are not like you. Segregation is wrong - it always was - but in case you haven't noticed, they're making us segregate ourselves.
10) We want ALL people to hold each other accountable whenever we see a wrong committed - on social media and in real life. We are interested in courageous conversations, in hearing folks out and sharing our collective American (no hyphen) experiences as a means toward a more productive and respective society, a society that lives in shared peace and prosperity.