Posted on 11/12/2017 10:10:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“Can my children be friends with white people?”
This bizarre question is the basis of a New York Times op-ed published Sunday, and the author answers it with a “no,” albeit with some exceptions.
“History has provided little reason for people of color to trust white people in this way [of genuine friendship], and these recent months have put in the starkest relief the contempt with which the country measures the value of racial minorities,” writes Ekow N. Yankah, a law professor at Yeshiva University.
According to Yankah, examples of white “contempt” for racial minorities in recent months include concerns over the opioid epidemic, worries over rising unemployment among working-class whites, and criticism of NFL players kneeling for the anthem. Apparently those issues receive far more attention than the woes of African-Americans, thus revealing the secret disdain whites have for non-whites.
With that conclusion assumed, Yankah declares the lesson he will teach his kids.
“As against our gauzy national hopes, I will teach my boys to have profound doubts that friendship with white people is possible,” the law professor argues. “When they ask, I will teach my sons that their beautiful hue is a fault line. Spare me platitudes of how we are all the same on the inside. I first have to keep my boys safe, and so I will teach them before the world shows them this particular brand of rending, violent, often fatal betrayal.”
Throughout the article, Yankah bases this pessimistic attitude not on personal experience — he says his childhood hometown was remarkably free of racial tension — but on Donald Trump being president and the violence in Charlottesville.
A large number of white people voting for Trump is the final push in giving up on Caucasians.
“Of course, the rise of this president has broken bonds on all sides. But for people of color the stakes are different. Imagining we can now be friends across this political line is asking us to ignore our safety and that of our children, to abandon personal regard and self-worth,” the professor asserts. “Only white people can cordon off Mr. Trump’s political meaning, ignore the “unpleasantness” from a position of safety. His election and the year that has followed have fixed the awful thought in my mind too familiar to black Americans: ‘You can’t trust these people.”
He also attacks liberals who don’t protest enough or dare to criticize the excesses of racial activism as marked off from friendship.
While Yankah sounds exceptionally grim in his article on interracial friendship, he admits near the end that he has still lots of white friends and his biracial wife passes as Caucasian. Those facts undermine the seriousness of Yankah’s argument, but his intention is clearly not advocating for the total forsaking of interracial friendship.
It’s just another article attempting to shame whites for being, well, white. Yankah counts on The New York Times’ liberal audience to sympathize with his argument and ask themselves what more can they do for radicals like this law professor.
Voting for Democrats isn’t enough. Being a good neighbor to non-whites isn’t enough. Showing no sign of racism isn’t enough.
You must use all your time and energy protesting Trump and advocating for the Black Lives Matter agenda in order to earn trust from non-whites. Otherwise, you’re in the same league as those irredeemable Trump voters.
The deeper meaning of Yankah’s article is that whiteness is itself the 21st century’s Mark of Cain. Bearing that skin color means one is born with the taint of sin from historical injustices and present election outcomes.
One can only atone for this inherent evil by trying to be the wokest white dude possible, and never criticize the actions of those who don’t bear this awful color.
It’s a crazy concept that undermines the last 60 some years of teaching on race. Race is taught to be a social construct that we’re supposed to be getting over with time. You’re not supposed to judge someone by the color of their skin but by their individual character, according to the old consensus.
Columns like Yankah’s shows the reverse of that, pedestaling race as the chief factor in judging another person. And whites come out the worst in this process.
It’s worth remembering that Yankah is professor, and students are indoctrinated with similar messages on a regular basis as my book, “No Campus for White Men” documents.
When views similar to the Yeshiva law professor’s are the norm, it’s no surprise that such a simple statement as “it’s okay to be white” causes such an uproar on campus.
Spurred on by 4chan, anonymous students have been posting signs declaring it’s okay to be white on campuses across the country. Not that’s it’s better to be white or that it’s great to be white. Simply that it’s okay to be Caucasian.
Those messages, instead of being ignored, have triggered university administrators and campus leftists into seeing the postings as outbursts of dangerous racism.
Marcia L. Sells, Harvard Law School dean, warned in a typical reaction to the messages that they were attempting to divide the university.
“HLS [Harvard Law School] will not let that happen here. We live, work, teach, and learn together in a community that is stronger, better, and deeper because of our diversity and because we encourage open, respectful, and constructive discourse,” Sells wrote in an email to students.
The overreaction to these rather benign posters sends the message that it is not okay to be white. Ignoring them as pranks would mean that schools accept “it’s okay to be white” as so basic that it would be like proudly boasting it’s okay to be left-handed.
But the meltdowns from campus activists and all-too serious concern from school deans means that there is something inherently wrong in stating it’s alright to be white.
With opinions like Yankah’s receiving a platform from America’s paper of record, more people should wake up to how a large percentage of higher education is teaching there’s something inherently wrong with one particular skin color.
Does that sound like an idea that will lead to more harmony in the country?
I think that someone is Yankah your chain, bubby.
There was a time when Yeshiva Un., like Brandeis, was a respected Jewish center of learning. Today both are centers of Marxism, self-hating Jews, self-hating whites, and just crazy aholes with teaching certificates.
PS: My liberal cousin went to Brandeis when it was sane. Unfortunately she was not totally sane, being a truly blind liberal, but a nice person. Thanksgiving dinners were a hoot. I could write a book about them - art, music, Jackson Pollock, who was the author of an obscure piece of 18th C. opera, medical issues, the anti-Semitism of the old Johns Hopkins Un. (unbelievably anti-Jewish in the 1920s/30s and forget blacks getting in), FDR, etc.
I got a couple slices of turkey, gravy, stuffing, cranbury sauce and aspirin for 4.
I was BORN THIS WAY, I think...
Let me check my birth certificate... BRB.
Yes, I was born this way. Not guilty of anything. Had zero control.
As a pasty white gal, getting pre cancerous spots frozen off my body, sun damage, prone to this affliction, I wish I’d been born with skin color!
Silly liberals!
My cat is solid white. He also had no choice in his color. Born this way.
And this very black man somehow picked a “black” woman who could pass for white (ie is genetically likely 7/8 white)
What a shame. He is a nice looking young man, living in a free nation, with a job which requires that he know history and something about how human beings evolve. Yet, in spite of the vast improvement in the opportunities for him, he hates those whose ancestors fought a war to free his people and then, found remedies for every struggle of adjustment for them after that. He is of a race where some are the wealthiest individuals in the world. Yet he is trying to drum up hatred for his mentors, based on something no one can ever change which is skin color. My child dated a beautiful black girl, my friends have adopted beautiful black children who feel as biological as their own biological children. In my small community, we love one another, so I have no idea why this fortunate young professor hates so much. I will pray that he will change his mind about us, for we do not return his hatred.
These morons want a race war, something no thinking person wants.
They might not say they want that, if asked directly. But that is the road they are placing us on.
Hopefully sanity prevails.
Never ever would I approve of my son or daughter dating a black. The culture is not the same and they’d be in for a world of hurt.
Why would you set your kid up to fail? That culture is a failed culture.
Soros and the elites want a race and religious war.
Best way to diminish and control the masses.
They use blacks Islamists and any group who can be manipulated.
I have four black adopted children, all conservative. All bright taxpaying productive citizens.
That issue (inter-racial marriage in the family) seemed less important 20 years ago; now there would be allsorts of tensions. A white friend who is married to a black woman has no issues with her; while his family is very tolerant about it, her family is not.
Wonder how Trigglypuff would react to this article. KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF THIS CAMPUS!
Thanks Obama!
he is a bigot.
For later. Thanks for the link.
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I get so weary of liberals saying Trump is dividing the country. Couldn’t be further from the truth. They have self-segregated starting under Obama and continue to this day. Same old s**t. Accuse everyone else of what THEY’RE doing.
I’d be a very happy camper if they’d self-segregate to another country or another realm.
These people are racists
And of course we play the mental exercise and ask what if a white person said the same thing.
The utter racism in the statement would immediately be brought to light.
But this guy gets a pass.
Our very own Palestinians...taught from the cradle to hate us.
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