Aaaa, shaddap!
Posted on 07/06/2015 10:28:58 AM PDT by rightistight
Writing for the Huffington Post, Mandy Hitchcock declared that racism "was created by white people" and that it is entirely on white people to end it.
In her article, titled "It's My Job to Raise Children Who Are Not Only Not Racist But Actively Anti-Racist," Hitchcock spends multiple paragraphs on the privileges that white people have.
"Zero: the number of times I have discussed race or racism in any meaningful way with my white four-year-old son," Hitchcock writes. "Of all of the many privileges I enjoy as a white woman in America, this is by far the most significant."
She continues, "What a luxury. What a privilege as a mother to be able simply to ignore race and racism if I wanted to, if it were too uncomfortable to discuss, if I just didn't know what to say."
Hitchcock continues to talk about privilege, remarking, "Descriptors like "white" and "black" to describe actual people will likely go over my son's head at this point. What a luxury. What a privilege.
"...Parents of black children are trying to help their children survive and thrive in a culture that does not value their lives, even though their ancestors built the very foundations of America through nearly three centuries of enslavement, torture, rape, and murder," Hitchcock then explains. "As a parent of white children, I have the luxury of never even having these conversations at all."
All this privilege and all of these luxuries for "whites" must end, according to Hitchcock. And the root of these troubles for African Americans and racism is because of white people.
Not being racist is not enough, she argues. "While we must absolutely listen to and try to understand and love our black brothers and sisters," Hitchcock says (emphasis mine), "while we must absolutely bear witness to the pain that is the black experience in America, while we must absolutely stand in solidarity with black people, racism is a white problem. It was created by white people, and it must be solved by white people.
"It is not the responsibility of our black brothers and sisters to teach us how not to be racist, to educate us about racism, to explain white privilege to us, to tell us where to begin. It is our job as white people to do that work. It is our job to raise the generation of white children who will end racism in this country," she writes.
She will teach her son these things, Hitchcock continues: "It is my job to make him understand that his privileges as a white male in this country are built upon those nearly three centuries of enslavement, torture, rape, and murder, and that with great privilege comes great responsibility.
"...I am not sure where to begin, but I must begin somewhere," Hitchcock concludes. "And I must begin now. It is my job."
The best way to eliminate racism is to ignore it. However, with the likes of Sharpton and Jackson, these United States never will.
Yes....I even hesitated a bit and tried to delve down into my repertoire of words. But alas, ‘industrialized’ fit the best in my opinion. :0)
bean flicker?
Aaaa, shaddap!
That conceit is belied by the fact that (1) a non-white minority, east Asians, outperform "white" Americans in academic achievement and in total wealth. And (2) even with affirmative discrimination uh action for the past fifty years, blacks and non-white Hispanics still lag far behind whites.
In short, "white privilege" has had no effect on the inability of non-whites to progress or succeed. It's all on them...if they, the non-whites, fail, white Americans have little or nothing to do with their failures. But that is a conclusion libs are unable to accept.
Looks like all these liberal blogs are in a circular firing squad.
I stopped reading at “HuffPo Article”
‘What a maroon!’
“That really looks good!”
I was going to say the same thing. Sweet memories.... : )
And stupidity was created by the Huffington Post.
needs more nuts...
This is the kind of crap that makes the idea of white supremacy look good. There. I’ve said it.
They’re all coming out now, revealing what they have been thinking all along: that they hate Whitey and want to eliminate him, after taking all his money.
Seems blacks were enslaving blacks long before white people showed up.
Genocide, slavery, and imperialism are no exclusively white institutions. I’m sure we can all name examples that fly in the face of the notion that white people created all social ills.
“enslavement, torture, rape, and murder”
I’ve never done any of those things, and am not responsible for the actions of any other people. Guilt is not transmitted through DNA.
I do not enjoy White Privilege, so shut your mouth.
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“Writing for the Huffington Post, Mandy Hitchcock declared that racism “was created by white people” and that it is entirely on white people to end it.”
Liberal white people.
Basically, the white guilt that the media and academia will heap upon her son is not enough; she must start heaping it on herself before he is old enough to wipe his own behind.
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