Posted on 04/30/2019 7:49:04 AM PDT by EdnaMode
It’s time to talk about what it means to be white in the United States.
That’s what I was trying to do Saturday afternoon at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Northwest Washington when I was interrupted by a group of white nationalists. Ironically, the protesters’ chant — “This land is our land” — served only to reinforce my point.
For too long, many white Americans have avoided this conversation, and we’ve done so for a reason: We don’t have to see the color white. Race scholars often argue that white privilege broadly means not needing to reflect on whiteness. White is the default setting, the assumed norm. A white American does not have to think about being white when walking down the street — while people marked as not-white are often noticed and surveilled. White people have the superpower of invisibility.
Yet with the rise of President Trump’s brand of resentment politics, American whiteness is increasingly hard to overlook. Trumpian rhetoric defines white identity not by shared values but by shared resentments. Whiteness, in this telling, is under siege. Walled behind Trump’s claim that the country is “full,” and his equivocations on white extremism, lies the notion that immigrants and citizens of color are usurping the privileges of whiteness. This narrative is then amplified by increasingly emboldened white nationalists like the ones who sought to shout me down Saturday.
Trump did not invent insecure whiteness. He is only a skilled manipulator of the fears at its heart.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Racists with an education
I bask in my innate superiority over any other life forms
“white American does not have to think about being white when walking down the street.”
I know of a bunch of streets in Boston from my youth that made me think about being white.
What a pile of S^^^
Whites built the country and are mostly the reason for its prosperity. What’s to talk about?
what a bunch of tripe this article is.
If a white American does not have to think about being white, there can be no such thing as "insecure whiteness."
Moron.
Walk down any MLK Blvd while being white.
It’s Time to Talk About Being White in America
It’s Time To Talk About Being Civil in America.
There. Fixed it.
“I bask in my innate superiority over any other life forms.”
I refuse to take idiots like this seriously until they forswear using anything invented by white people.
Antibiotics, electricity, central heating and cooling, bicycles, modern dentistry, the internet, sewage treatment, anything.
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Do you mean where whites are expected to become Borg like creatures and pretend that race doesn't exist while every other ethnicity has very race specific groups of every kind imaginable from political & lobbying to social and other wise. That kind of 'insecure whiteness'?
An all-time understatement, in my humble opinion.
Helter Skelter, she's comin' down fast!
Alright, but apart from the Antibiotics, electricity, central heating and cooling, bicycles, modern dentistry, the internet, and sewage treatment, what have the white people EVER done for us?
Oh wow, this guy is really profound and stuff.
Looking forward to the day when we can forget about race and move on to content of character. That day will be a crushing defeat for the left.
Somebody should tell the little moron that this is exactly what the Left said for generations
Immigration laws were written by the Unions in the 20's
Guess he's just iggorant
That meme was created to trap leftists into banning it and proving that they were hypocrites about race—i.e., racists against white people.
It seems to be working...in their eyes it clearly is _not_ ok to be white.
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