I Am Not Ready to Reenter White Society

The Nation ^ | 23 Mar, 2021 | Elie Mystal

[MtnClimber]

I’ve said, here and elsewhere, that one of the principal benefits of the pandemic is how I’ve been able to exclude racism and whiteness generally from my day-to-day life. Over the past year, I have, of course, still had to interact with white people on Zoom or watch them on television or worry about whether they would succeed in reelecting a white-supremacist president. But white people aren’t in my face all of the time. I can, more or less, only deal with whiteness when I want to. Their cops aren’t hunting me when I drive through my neighborhood; their hang-ups aren’t bothering me (or threatening me) when I’m just trying to do some shopping.

That’s because I haven’t been driving or shopping in person. White people haven’t improved; I’ve just been able to limit my exposure to them. I’ve turned my house into Wakanda: a technically advanced, globally isolated home base from which I can pick and choose when and how often to interact with white people.

To be clear, it’s not that most or even many of my interactions with white people are “bad”; it’s that I’m able to choose when to expose myself to interactions with potentially bad white people. That choice is a privilege I’ve never really had until this past year. Going out into white society for me is a little bit like a beekeeper going to get honey. I know what I’m doing: If I put on the right protection and blow enough smoke, most of the bees will leave me alone and the ones who don’t won’t really cause me that much pain. But I’ve got to put on the suit and the hat with the mesh and carry the smoke machine and be careful every time I want some goddamn honey.

[Cecily]

I don’t live in a “white” society. I live in American society, which is supposed to be a melting pot. This Elie person is nothing but a bigoted racist who only wants to live among his own kind. Isn’t that what the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists also want?

[Deaf Smith]

Strange that the "writer" uses a beekeeper analogy.

The job of the beekeeper is to take care of HIS bees and hives.

Then if the beekeeper wants to be Plantation Owner type, he will hire out his bees and truck them to other plantations and force his bees to pollinate others people's crops.

So in his analogy, he is a slave owner.

[FLT-bird]

If you’re that bothered by White people,I suggest you leave. You’ll be much happier moving to a place with no White people.

We won’t miss you.

[Deaf Smith]

Also note that as a beekeeper, he pays his workers nothing and takes the fruit (honey) of their labors for his own benifit.

As for the smoke he uses subdue his bees, is that not the same as a whip?

[metmom]

You forgot the mega barf hurl alert on this one.

How about the author move to Africa, or Detroit or Chicago, or some other such democrat stronghold.

There are plenty of all black neighborhoods where she (he?) doesn’t have to worry about contaminating itself with contact with whites.

Oh, and while they are at it, how about not using all the technology that those despicable whites created that make your life so much more comfortable?

[enduserindy]

Hell I can remember when 127th and Halsted was a first world..city. Bet this guy doesn’t and hasn’t lived there..

[blueplum]

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To be clear, it’s not that most or even many of my interactions with ETHNICS are “bad”; it’s that I’m able to choose when to expose myself to interactions with potentially bad ETHNIC people. That choice is a privilege I’ve never really had until this past year. Going out into society for me is a little bit like a beekeeper going to get honey. I know what I’m doing: If I put on the right protection and blow enough smoke, most of the bees will leave me alone and the ones who don’t won’t really cause me that much pain. But I’ve got to put on the suit and the hat with the mesh and carry the smoke machine and be careful every time I want some goddamn honey...but as I open back up, I’ll be thrust again into a world where I’m treated like an “other,” one where ETHNIC people feel empowered to just walk around like they own the place... I’m not ready to go back to accepting that, in a diverse and pluralistic society, some ETHNIC people are allowed to just impose their implicit biases on the world, and the rest of us have to suck it up.

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fixing this article was so easy it made me feel surprisingly liberated.

Especially after the author revealed his true personality - that to him, a white woman politely asking a black teen if they gave vaccines inside a store was a racial crime and the teen’s insolence towards being addressed by a white person was completely acceptable - to be encouraged.

[LegendHasIt]

“If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen.

However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other.

The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar.

This is exactly what’s happening in society today. Liberal vs. Conservative. Black vs. White. Pro Mask vs. Anti-Mask. Vax vs. Anti-vax. Rich vs. poor. Man vs. woman. Cop vs. citizen. The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the jar… and why?”

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/03/22/who-is-shaking-the-jar

[bagster]

White people food allowed him to become morbidly obese.

You're welcome, Fat Albert.

[SharpRightTurn]

My unscientific survey, based upon reading rants like this and numerous news stories, is that on average blacks are the most racist group in the U.S.

By far.

[Alas Babylon!]

Racist. That’s all she is.

[GaryCrow]

I wish more of them felt the same as the author, I’d have to spend a lot less time locking up my possessions.

[Jimmy Valentine]

What this individual does not understand is that nobody cares about her self isolation. The sun still rises and sets.

[wardaddy]

Then go away and take 90% with you

Our crime and welfare rolls will plummet

Bye

[wardaddy]

It’s been bad enough to ignore how the black race lags and is hyper violent worldwide

Now this bullshit reaches a crescendo

These fools are creating blowback they will not endure well

Creating the monster they accuse us of now

So foolish

[Altura Ct.]

There are plenty of possibilities to leave. Why don’t you?

[a fool in paradise]

She voted for the guy who worked WITH segregationist Democrats in the 1970s to pass legislation and she has the audacity to call President Trump a white supremacist.

Liberal logic fail

[a fool in paradise]

>>Where is Wakanda.

It’s a secret. They are a segregated society and don’t believe in open borders or a democratically elected government.

[a fool in paradise]

Communists and Islamists helped.

Western imperialism was “BAD”.

Communist imperialism and Islamic imperialis is “GOOOOOOOD”.

[MarDav]

Someone needs to actually do this.