Posted on 07/03/2013 4:04:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Admitting it is the first step! But it's not enough. What you do at this important juncture matters. By: | Posted: at 12:47 AM
"I'm a racist, and I don't want to be. I'm a white man in my very early 40s, and for years I've been extremely awkward and anxious around African Americans, especially men. At some point in my early teens, I became very self-conscious about the racial divide. And about that time, I moved to a much more homogeneously white area, and I guess gradually black people became abstractions to me or something. When I moved back to a more mixed neighborhood in college, I found I was afraid of them. Horrible thoughts and associations -- of crime, violence, whatever -- would spring to mind.
"Now it's reached the point where I can't encounter any African-American person without these thoughts cropping up, along with this seizure of panic that I'm racist, I'm giving off a funny vibe, I'm making that person feel uncomfortable and he or she can see through me and knows what's going on. It's a complex of shame and humiliation and fear that for two-plus decades I haven't been able to think my way out of, and if anything, it's only getting worse with age.
(Excerpt) Read more at theroot.com ...
Sounds like the rantings of a person with serious mental problems - or it was written by a black person pretending to be a white neurotic.... either way it’s a yawn.
I don’t think a black person would ever dream to write such a thing. Definitely sounds like white person.
liberals are so disfunctional... I would be sad for them but the truth is I am not.
Move to Detroit, apply for volunteer work, and recognize that all of us in life sometime or another need a helping hand, from someone from another race.
Racism is a sign of weakness.
I don't really care and have no plans whatever to twist myself into knots psychoanalyzing why I think the way I do.
I'm normal. She's demented.
Future Darwin Award Winner....
Since leaving America ten years ago, I very rarely see a black person.
“it was written by a black person pretending to be a white neurotic”
I’ll go with B, Alex. Anyone ever try literally staying outside in Skid Row? After 10 pm? I did, as my internship for my grad thesis. Even the most ardent liberal white guilt-trip liberal will change his/her tune after one night.
Paula is that you?
Reminds me of the “Sorry Everybody” pictures when President Bush beat Sen. Kerry:
http://sorryeverybody.com/index_old.shtml
No problem...just start every endeavor with this sentence “I was born a poor black child”.
Racism will be an issue as long as it is politically of benefit for Blacks, Hispanics, and Democrats generally.
Cheer up. You're not a racist. Just gay.
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Please bear in mind, people. This is some kind of advice column. Jenée Desmond-Harris is definitely not a White man in his forties. She's the person responding to his letter.
“Racism is a sign of weakness.”
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Maybe in some cases, but not in general.
Much depends on where one is from and how much exposure he has to other races.
Besides, "racism" today, more often than not, means a white person simply noticing truths and statistics.
Yes, racism is a sign of weakness.
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