Posted on 05/20/2018 10:22:13 AM PDT by Cubs Fan
White people can be exhausting.
Its work to be the only person of color in an organization, bearing the weight of all your white co-workers questions about Blackness.
Its work to always be hypervisible because of your skin easily identified as being present or absent but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you.
Its work to do the emotional labor of pointing out problematic racist thinking, policies, action and statements while desperately trying to avoid bitterness and cynicism.
Quite frankly, the work isnt just tedious. It can be dangerous for Black women to attempt to carve out space for themselves their perspective, their gifts, their skills, their education, their experiences in places that havent examined the prevailing assumption of white culture. The danger of letting whiteness walk off with our joy, our peace, our sense of dignity and self-love, is ever present. As a black woman working in white spaces, my perception of racial dynamics has been questioned, minimized, or denied altogether.
These words are from Austin Channing Browns new book, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, released this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
She should take her Black ass back to Africa. GTFO!
But the desirable parts of the world have been shaped by white cultural values:—that is why they are desirable!
However, if the ungrateful person of color doesn't like it, there are plenty of places in the world devoid of white culture and ethics. I'm sure he would be welcomed with open arms:
— Robert Heinlein
Oh good, another race grievance! They will never run out.
“Its work to be the only person of color in an organization”
For some, the color of their skin is the reason they were hired.
turns out I was talking to him about his supervisor who's name is Nick Crowe. The "whistleblower" took it out of context.
I swear, you cant make this stuff up.
‘It can be dangerous for Black women to attempt to carve out space for themselves’
oh I don’t know; a bunch of them seemed to be doing just fine in the breakfast buffet line at a Shoney’s I was in recently...
“It can be dangerous for Black women to attempt to carve out space for themselves”
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What the hell does that even mean?????????
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“It can be dangerous for Black women to attempt to carve out space for themselves their perspective, their gifts, their skills, their education, their experiences...”
Here. I’ll do your HOMEWORK for you; Famous Black Women in History:
Angela Davis (Is she not your Socialist HERO, Ms. Brown?)
Harriet Tubman (The Underground Railroad)
Susie Taylor (Teacher)
Marcelite J. Harris (BG, USAF)
Tyra Banks (Black Supermodel)
Madam CJ Walker (First Black Female Gazillionaire)
Josephine Baker (Actress/Singer)
Rosa Parks (Get on the bus!)
Condoleezza Rice (Secretary of State)
Oprah Winfrey (Another Hero to Socialists Chicks, Everywhere...as an added bonus, friends with Harvey Weinstein!)
Maya Angelou & Nikki Giovanni (Poets)
Marian Anderson (Opera Singer)
Shirley Chisholm (First Black Female Dem to vie for the Presidency!)
Althea Gibson (Tennis Pro)
Charlotte Ray (Lawyer)
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (Doctor)
Mae Carol Jemison (Astronaut)
And HUNDREDS of other, ‘firsts’ by black women! I’m so sorry, Ms. Brown, that your liberal blinders don’t allow you to see those that have gone before you! Carry that Mantle into the future! Do for OTHERS and quit whining.
Her bio mentions nothing about REAL employment Just your typical SJW nonprofit racial BS
Hey, Baby, try getting a productive job in the real world and rid those evil curious white liberals who condescend on you because youre an oppressed negro in their eyes
IIRC, history shows that millions of Europeans have killed and oppressed other Europeans, millions of Asians have killed and oppressed other Asians, millions of Middle Easterners have killed and oppressed other Middle Easterners, and Millions of Africans have killed and oppressed other Africans.
Man’s inhumanity to man is the work of the devil. Consider the source.
White peoples give a damn has broken.
Blacks broke it.
It’s not complex. Academia has brainwashed these people skin color is everything and white people suck.
So there ya have it!
Black people always blaming whitey for their own mistakes in life is exhausting.
....Entitled
Victim mentality
Shallow thinking
Arrogant
Ignorant
Thin skinned
Demanding
Tribal
There are an extraordinary number of similar characteristics between the SJW Blacks and Islamist.
They DEMAND RESPECT at ALL times for doing nothing.
Any honest question is considered Disrespectful.
Personally, I’m very surprised that there hasn’t been a massive conversion of black Americans to Islam.
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