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How to Talk to Your Family About Racism on Thanksgiving
Harper's Baazars ^ | November 19, 2018 | Rachel Cargle

Posted on 11/20/2018 11:33:12 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

Toxic ideologies often start around family dinner tables. It's not just an uncle saying a racist joke, or a grandmother determining her xenophobic ideas as “a part of her time.” These comments seep into how we make decisions in voting booths, how judges rule in their chambers, how teachers guide students in school classrooms, how employment decisions are made, and how police react in high-stakes situations.

After a year of relentless atrocities that don’t always make for easy conversation at the dinner table, it's important to make Thanksgiving preparations beyond the tablescape and the menu. This year, I want you to prepare for something a little more nuanced than stuffing or cranberry sauce: I want you to prepare to rock the family boat, with important discussions that stretch beyond the surface of “How's the weather?” and “Who are you dating these days?” So, I'm coming to you with a guide that should push you beyond apathy, and instead, teach you how to be a part of the solution. As Angela Davis reminds us, it is not enough to not be racist. You have to be anti-racist, and if you are not actively being part of the solution, then you are a part of the problem. So here is some language to help you navigate Thanksgiving day dinner.

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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Yes, because we all want to be like terrorist Angela Davis.


21 posted on 11/20/2018 11:39:33 AM PST by Timmy
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Here’s how I discuss racism in America

” you don’t know any racist your family doesn’t know any racist I don’t know any racist.

I’m certain there are a few racist bastards out there but, again, you and I don’t know any so shut the hell up”

Or start naming the people specifically and their Acts particularly


22 posted on 11/20/2018 11:39:36 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

See link in Post #15. Today is the 5th anniversary.


23 posted on 11/20/2018 11:39:49 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

What young Americans need to know about this is - the Left has steeped in Neo-marxism and critical theory for so long, white perfidy, white sin, and white hate are now commonly accepted pillars of their ideology.

That means, white boys and girls, in their eyes, you are congenitally flawed from birth. You are guilty. You can only work to overcome this defect, but its always there. Its a very dangerous ideology and it marks you as a target.

That’s how the Left views you.

That’s what you need to understand.


24 posted on 11/20/2018 11:39:53 AM PST by PGR88
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

We make the liberals in my family sit at the kiddie table.


25 posted on 11/20/2018 11:40:03 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

How to ruin a holiday in ONE easy lesson.

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26 posted on 11/20/2018 11:40:56 AM PST by Mears
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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27 posted on 11/20/2018 11:41:05 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Will these people ever understand that there is a time and a place to leave their politics out of it? Can’t talk about the weather anymore, can’t talk about football anymore, can’t talk about sex anymore, it’s all subject to their draconian set of arbitrary rules designed to favor their constituencies. Sick of it.


28 posted on 11/20/2018 11:41:08 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
“You have to be anti-racist, and if you are not actively being part of the solution, then you are a part of the problem.”

I don't believe that people should be given special benefits because of the color of their skin. That's one reason I didn't vote for Obama; and would never vote for Elizabeth Warren.

I have been called a racist.

29 posted on 11/20/2018 11:41:09 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: SkyDancer



30 posted on 11/20/2018 11:41:50 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Yaelle

There he is!


31 posted on 11/20/2018 11:42:07 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Vote your bible.)
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To: Yaelle

Isn’t he on The Big Bang Theory?


32 posted on 11/20/2018 11:42:32 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Vote your bible.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Do people of color ever tell jokes about people not of color or use racist/derogatory terms like honkie, whitie, gringo (hatefully), etc? Do they sit around the table and caution each other not to do that?


33 posted on 11/20/2018 11:42:53 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I once asked a Chinese girl for her number. She said, “Sex! Sex! Sex! Free sex tonight!”
I said, “Wow!”
Then her friend said, “She means 666-3629.”


34 posted on 11/20/2018 11:43:26 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Good ‘Un ...


35 posted on 11/20/2018 11:44:26 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Easy, tell them about the Democrat Party’s history of systemic racism in America:

*Slavery
*Jim Crow Segregation Laws
*The KKK
*Japanese internment camps
*Voting against the ‘64 CRA
*Voting against the ‘65 VRA
*Celebrating racists as mentors and role models (Margaret Sanger and Dem Sen. Robert Byrd)

This should take you well into dessert!


36 posted on 11/20/2018 11:44:52 AM PST by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

How it would fly at a real family dinner is something the author of this piece will never know. These are fantasy dialogues. Ideological porn if you will.


37 posted on 11/20/2018 11:45:20 AM PST by Salman (Twitter makes press conferences obsolete.)
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To: Lurker

Our grandparents, parents and your mother and I never owned a slave, and no one today bitching about racism, ever picked cotton.

So lets just move on.


38 posted on 11/20/2018 11:45:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Why are the libs suddenly in love with our fired AG/Sessions and want to protect him?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
"Does it end in violence?"

Probably will. I'm betting we'll hear about some family member who did a relative in with the carving knife, for some ridiculous reason.

39 posted on 11/20/2018 11:45:35 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
"Rachel Elizabeth Cargle writes and lectures on things that exist at the intersection of race and womanhood."Gobble, gobble ...
40 posted on 11/20/2018 11:46:17 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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