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Why are white people scared of black people's rage at Mike Brown's death? (Jeez!)
The Manchester Guardian ^ | August 20, 2014 | Rebecca Carroll

Posted on 08/20/2014 11:58:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Because ‘working together’ on Ferguson means nothing unless white privilege gets used for change – and defers to the black experience.

In the days since 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in broad daylight by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri – amid the flurry of media coverage, the teargas and the wooden bullets, the shameless character shaming of Brown, and the gut-sick heartbreak of his family – all I keep thinking is: Make it stop, white people.

You are the ones who created this godforsaken racist system by using your circumstantial power and privilege 400 years ago to institutionalize white supremacy. Now use that power and privilege you still have, 400 years later, to dismantle it.

And please don’t quibble about whether you have any direct lineage to the architects of racism. You are benefitting from it, so you have a direct responsibility to figure out how to undo it. Because maybe you’ve seen what happens when we black people try to undo it in 2014 – they call in the National Guard.

In between talking with my son to both protect him from the same fate as Michael Brown and empower him to walk tall in his skin, I have tweeted and posted on Facebook about this all week to no avail. Some white friends and acquaintances have said their silence is not complicity, or that we all need to work together. More pointedly, it was suggested in one thread comment that my upbringing – adopted by two white parents and raised in a majority white town – imparts a certain privilege that does not allow me to truly understand the racism toward black people in places like Ferguson.

But cops in places like Ferguson don’t see my white parents – that I learned early on....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blacks; darrenwilson; ferguson; michaelbrown; racism; whiteprivilege; whites; whitesupremacy; woodenbullets
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rebecca Carroll is a writer, editor and author of several nonfiction books, including Saving The Race and Sugar In The Raw. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Ebony, GOOD, The Daily Beast and Jezebel, among other publications. Follow her on Twitter at @rebel19.

41 posted on 08/21/2014 5:53:23 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: notfornothing

Time to check your privilege, Ms. Carroll. No white commentator could make an equivalent statement and still have a job the next day.

...a concise rebuttal to the nonsense of the white privilege
theme that today’s youth have beaten into them, in the wastelands known as public schools...


42 posted on 08/21/2014 5:54:18 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why are white people scared of black people's rage at Mike Brown's death? (Jeez!)

Because they manifest that rage by burning things and stealing stuff?

43 posted on 08/21/2014 5:56:12 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: kearnyirish2

Ginsburg’s ilk...

...?...


44 posted on 08/21/2014 5:59:15 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s good that you’ve talked to your son about this, Rebecca.
Has your husband talked to him about it as well?


45 posted on 08/21/2014 6:01:07 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: notfornothing

Really... that statement’s not racist at all, is it?
/sarc


46 posted on 08/21/2014 6:02:16 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: IrishBrigade

Remember her comment on the how the intended targets were still breeding? Sounded very eugenicist; libs want blacks to abort/contracept themselves into extinction.


47 posted on 08/21/2014 6:03:45 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: DaveA37

From what I can gather, “white racism” today manifests itself in simply not caring about “race issues” that leftist blacks continually harp about.


48 posted on 08/21/2014 6:06:48 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m not.[Scared of Black people’s rage] She needs to speak for herself.


49 posted on 08/21/2014 6:09:12 AM PDT by sport
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To: facedown

No,thank you.


50 posted on 08/21/2014 6:13:35 AM PDT by sport
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To: lostboy61

Well told. I’m betting he thought it was a machine gun. Thanks for the laugh.


51 posted on 08/21/2014 6:19:32 AM PDT by Amity
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To: DaveA37

It’s not just the blacks. Most of the articles I’ve read on the topic are white, yet I have yet to see one report point out that asking for “transparency” and more information when there is an ongoing investigation is rank foolishness and a subversion of justice. The investigators have to keep a tight lid on specifics in order not to compromise witnesses who haven’t been thoroughly interviewed or prejudice the jury.

This is basic judicial practice that every reporter dealing with criminal or police issues should know cold. Yet reporter after reporter not only ignores these facts, but writes as if they don’t exist. There are plenty of white people who need and want racism to exist and to continue — once they started running out of white racists, they started working hard to create black ones. And they have succeeded.


52 posted on 08/21/2014 6:25:13 AM PDT by Amity
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To: Amity

“...are WRITTEN BY whites.”

Man, I hate not being able to edit...


53 posted on 08/21/2014 6:26:34 AM PDT by Amity
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m white, and I ain’t scared. Blacks looting is nothing new or anything to be afraid of.


54 posted on 08/21/2014 6:56:33 AM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This idiot doesn’t realize she answers her own question. She was adopted in to a stable two parent home. She is too blinded by her racism that she won’t look at the fact nearly 70% of black children are raised by single moms. How is that my fault?


55 posted on 08/21/2014 7:18:56 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

you know what pisses me off 2ndVet, enablers/propagandists (note - I would never call her a journalist) like this one make a decent living. They actually get paid well.

A fry cook should make more than these so called journalists. The free market is good, but it ain’t perfect.


56 posted on 08/21/2014 7:25:05 AM PDT by roofgoat
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To: Salvavida

Actually this article is very much worth reading, because it exposes us to, makes us aware of, the mindset thats increasingly dominating public discussion in this country. And actively suppressing one side (the disagrees with it) of it.

The key thing to note in this article is her comment about her white friends’ silence on the matter. Which clearly annoys her. Question is, does that silence represent apathy, or does it represent people who have been cowed by political correctness into keeping their opinions to themselves?


57 posted on 08/21/2014 7:33:07 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: PoloSec

The “scared” accusation is one of the most potent tools in the Liberal toolkit.

It simultaneously undemines, invalidates and dismisses countering opinions and those who dare to put them forward. It’s a blunt instrument designed and used to bludgeon an opposing viewholder into silence.

Look at how “homophobic” gets tossed around for instance, both in it’s figurative (fear of homosexuals) and literal (fear of one’s self) senses.


58 posted on 08/21/2014 7:40:07 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“You are the ones who created this godforsaken racist system by using your circumstantial power and privilege 400 years ago to institutionalize white supremacy.”

I did not know that and for the the Manchester Guardian’s info; we leared about using our so-called power from the former “Mother Country”.


59 posted on 08/21/2014 9:36:00 AM PDT by Jean2 (ox)
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To: facedown
..Mulatto(white/black)...

60 posted on 08/21/2014 9:55:35 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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