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 ...
For me at least, being white is being held to a much, much higher standard than a few other races.
Seems like Trump is being held to a higher standard that Obama ever was.
FYI, Minecraft.
If you are white and walk down any street in America named Martin Luther King Boulevard, you will realize just how white you really are.
And hopefully, you are carrying a concealed weapon.
Eight percent of the world’s population is white.
Every racial group EXCEPT for ‘whites’ values lighter skinned members of their racial groups over darker skinned members.
Because of our culture - white culture - American black citizens have worked to overcome that insanity...
Yeah, Houston comes to mind...South Dallas and San Antonio. Oh, and wife's from Mexico, there too...every where. So many people believe something is true just because it came outta their mouths.
“No one is more racist that white leftists.”
AKA “self loathing whites”. No lower form of life exists than people that hate their own.
Keep it up, Lefties, keep it up. The more you yammer about this, the more we think about race. If we ever embraced the white race to the exclusion of all others, you people would be up against the wall with extra holes all over the place.
Even Malcolm X knew that white liberals were the most useless people on the planet.
Let me tell this author one more thing NONE of the media have covered yet. Mexicans, in particular Mexicans, when in position to control hiring for their oilfield, construction or contract labor projects very seldom EVER hire white people to work. They hire other Mexicans or sometimes certain Hispanics with whom they get along. That is fact...go research it and you’ll find it to be true.
It sounds to me that Jonathan M. Metzl should be thinking a lot about and writing a lot about Jewish Privilege.
WHAT?
Flawed in what way?
I'd just like to point out: you WILL bow before Yeshua one day. Count on it.
Anyone associated in any way with the washington pest should be in prison or exiled. It is a Crime Against Nature that even one sick sapling is murdered to create the paper that this pathetic rag is printed upon.
LOVE EVERYONE’S POST!!!!!!!!!!
Poor Jonathan M. Metzl...must have YUGE student debt and having to accept a job where he traveled and tried to force his view upon white neighborhoods, etc. He probably sat in his parent’s basement and wrote all this while wearing PJ’s...blechhhh! Get some vitamin D wokest soul...really, get some God in you!
NO, its time to change the birdcage compost paper
I recall reading somewhere that Martin Luther King, Jr was often referred to as “Uncle Martin” or “De Lawd” by the younger, more radical types that tended to follow Malcolm X.
Hearing subhumans like the writer of this piece remind me to (a) stay in physical shape (b) practice survival and (c) go to the range often. What absolute nitwittery and racial hatred these fools spout.
Come to some Philly Hoods and experience some “diversity” where whiteness is the MINORITY.
I, as a white, all my life, have been hurt by affirmative action.
I've never decrimated against anybody based on race...etc.
What white racism does exist doesn't benefit me. It hurts the person being decrimated against and it hurts the moron who descrimates.
Add to that all the money I've paid to Big Government that has redistributes my wealth.
Metzl should go affirmative action himself out of a job and redistribute his own wealth.
Period.
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