Posted on 07/04/2020 8:40:14 AM PDT by Stravinsky
I was intrigued by your article but want more information. There is a lot of false info out there about fighting racism and I would welcome some suggestions on things to read. I am a 54-year-old white woman, raised in the lower class in an all-white area. I detest the fact that people are treated differently because of their skin color or ethnic background. I have argued the stupidity of it until I am blue in the face. My problem is that because I grew up in an insular area, I am hesitant to do more simply because I don't know enough. I want to know more. I want to be part of the solution.
Thank you
This is hearteningand its just one among a plethora of similar emails Ive received from whites looking to know more, to do more, to participate in new dialogues and conversations inspired by this national awakening on racial inequities and injustices.
Call it the racial re-education of white folks.
Many asked how to best engage with that Black co-worker or neighbor they know little about, what social justice organizations they might support with their time and money, how they should talk with their children about race, about George Floyd, police brutality, and reform.
...
1. How to be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
2. Begin Again: James Baldwins America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Eddie Glaude, Jr.)
3. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
4. White Fragility: Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin Diangelo)
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
Absolutely.
Read Yellowhammer News instead. They actually graduated with journalism degrees and appear to have avoided the indoctrination camps....
RLTW
This isn’t a “new awakening”. This is about making sure the blacks, and guilt ridden whites, vote for Joe Biden and the Democrats.
It is, in and of itself, racist to the core, proving yet again that the Democrats believe blacks are stupid enough to be swayed by this theater. They already know their white constituents are stupid.
Screaming racism succeeded in electing Obama twice, and they are desperately hoping it will work again. That’s why Biden’s running mate will be a black woman, no matter how unqualified she is.
I read “The Autobiography of Malcolm the Tenth”, and it was basically someone who was all-talk, no-do.
“Dialogues” about racism always amount to the same thing: they want more money because they have a grievance.
The dialogue we really need is no, a grievance doesn’t entitle anyone to a share of his neighbor’s paycheck.
I guarantee you we will never have that dialogue. Nor will we ever have the dialogue about the need for the blacks to forgive and forget, and start cleaning up their own neighborhoods.
We have already heard everything the black community has to say. We have heard it until we are sick of it. It’s time they listened to us.
I wouldn't say it's hard. I would say it's not worth the legal or professional risk, and the entity looking to havee a 'conversation' has already informed us we are guilty and also have nothing to say since we can't know - that is, whites are always wrong and blacks are always right according to it ... why bother?
Right now in America - there has never been a more clear example of 'no good deed goes unpunished.'
So I'll just be keeping my speech and deeds far outside the scope of this racist and fake trial I mean 'conversation.'
I’ve got one for the list that I’m about finished reading; Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell. It would be an anathema to the author of the list. Actually id recomend all of his books but the above book is one of his better ones
You forgot to mention perhaps the best book on racial relations which was Rileys book called please stop helping us
Regarding how to be an anti-racist, the book is perhaps the most racist book Ive ever read.
He accepts violent behavior to promote black support page 69
He writes that suggesting to blacks that a two parent family , getting an education or getting married before having children is a racist comment page 24
He claims that he is one generation away from picking cotton page 21
Do you really believe this nonsense?
Love grandpa
Read this first that forget the rest:
“Myths of American Slavery” 1st Edition
by Walter D. Kennedy
Perfect...
Do they understand that they are creating racist thoughts in formerly non-racist people?
All y'all White peoples be racist!
Let me suggest Rileys book please stop helping us.
Regarding how to be an anti-racist, note the following:
Promoting violence in the name of helping blacks is appropriate page 69
Suggesting to a black person that a two parent family parent is best, an education is good orc getting married before having children he considers racist. Page 24
He claims to be one generation removed from picking cotton. Page 21
This is a terribly racist book
I quit subscribing to our local paper years ago. I could not see spending money on that junk.
I don’t need a commie “re-education”.
#21 - thanks for a time-out to peruse “yellowhammer”. Enjoyed news from AL.
I misread the first title and saw How to be an Antichrist.
Great story, I’ve never heard this one before. Thanks for sharing it.
The Pope has a book out?
I was going to say the same thing. AL dot com has been left wing since it began. In fact, there’s not much “news” reported in Alabama that’s conservative except Yellowhammer.
:)
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