feh... no white guilt here
Posted on 04/10/2012 7:51:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
David Leonard has spent years fighting racism and White privilege--and he's ready for his Caucasian brethren to get on board and see just how wrong things still are in this country.
Dear White folks:
Between the racist comments, the constant use of the race denial card (this country's most frequently used "race card") and the absurd claims of White victimhood, you have really grated my last nerve.
Sure, we got teary during The Blind Side and Antoine Fisher; we maybe even gave money to KONY2012 and after Hurricane Katrina; we maybe even donned a hoodie to protest the murder of Trayvon Martin. I don’t even doubt there are individuals out there who are genuinely concerned about racism and injustice; I don’t doubt that there are many Whites that marched with Dr. King and whose “best friends” might be Black. None of this matters if African Americans continue to die at the hands of guns held by security guards and police officers all without justice.
I have heard that “we are all Trayvon Martin” over the last few weeks, yet we are not Trayvon Martin – and we never could be. White America is never suspicious. White America can walk to the store without fear of being hunted down. White America can count on justice and a nation grieving at the loss of White life. We aren't Trayvon Martin, we are George Zimmerman: presumed innocent until proven innocent.
I want you to close your eyes for a second, and imagine that your son or daughter, sister or brother, granddaughter or grandson, ventured to the corner store for some Skittles and tea but never returned? Can you imagine if Peter or Jan were gunned down right around the corner from your house and the police didn’t notify you right away? Can you imagine if little Sydney or Bobby sat in the morgue for days as you searched to find out what happened them? Can you even imagine the police letting the perpetrator go or the news media remaining silent? Can you even fathom learning about background and drug tests on your child? Can you imagine the news media demonizing your child, blaming your child for his own death?
Can you imagine the outcry if seven White youths had been gunned down by police and security guards in a matter of months? Can you imagine the extensive political interest, the media stories that would saturate the airwaves? Can you imagine Fox News or any number of newspapers reporting about a school suspension for one of the victims or doctoring pictures in an attempt to make these victims less sympathetic? Can you imagine a person holding up a sign calling these victims “thugs” and “hoodlums.”Just think about the media frenzy, the concern from politicians, and the national horror every time a school shooting happens in Suburbia or every time a White woman goes missing...can you imagine if women routinely went missing from your community and the news and police department simply couldn't be bothered?
No, you can't. And you don't have to.
Yet, from Florida to Los Angeles, from Atlanta to Wisconsin, from Chicago to Ohio, Black families are burying the innocent and the future. Doesn’t that make you sad; doesn’t that make your angry? Our silence is telling. We can barely say their names much less acknowledge the epidemic in our midst: Stephon Watts. Trayvon Martin. Ramarley Graham. Wendell Allen. Dante Price. Bo Morrison. Rekia Boyd. Kendrec McDade.
All have lost their lives; and we don’t even say their names. All have died under similarly disturbing circumstances. All should have prompted national outrage and action; or at the least for us to say their names.
I don’t care if you cried during The Help and if the 'feel good' movie of the year featuring chicken-frying maids and affluent White women made you feel all post-racial tingly on the inside. Did you cry at the report of yet another lost Black life? If so, what have those tears done – have they led you to join a rally, to demand justice? I don’t care if you voted for President Obama; have you demanded dramatic changes to our criminal (in)justice system? It is time for us to check ourselves, to listen and demand a better America starting with ourselves. It is time to stop denying racism and defending White privilege, distracting and deflecting with “what ifs” and excuses. It is time to demand justice for the Trayvons and the Rekias, not because it could have been one of our sons and daughters--it couldn't--but because it is simply the right thing to do.
Sincerely
A member of White America
>>Here’s how useful this guy really is. America get’s EMP’d. There will be NO electricity for several years. How much are this guy’s skills worth? <<
It must be nice for someone to have never actually produced anything of value and then get to sit at home and write toilet paper absorption material.
And to get paid for it. Even when you think “pay” is evil (unless it is YOUR pay at issue).
Dear Black Folks,
Get over it.
/s/ The Japanese who were interned during WWII.
LA Times last week was decrying the police shooting of some yutes that stole someone's stuff and then allegedly the victim "lied" about them being armed when they stole his stuff.
Mucho background on the persons who were shot. Mucho explanation to the writer's children (or own yutes) that you shouldn't sass off to a cop. No mention at all that YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE THAT WHICH DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU.
Without justice is a talking point that means nothing. There is no trial for a dead man so he remains, in the words of the media, an "alleged" criminal. I always act surprised when a shooter goes on a rampage and the media reports that the "alleged shooter" was shot dead at the scene. By golly, I hope they shot the RIGHT GUY.
ROFL
Folks...you can't make this stuff up!
Actually, that degree has Derrick Bell Critical Race Theory Community Organizer written all over it. We shouldn't laugh. Look how far they've come... and all at our expense.
Listen mister tighty whitey you are a bozo. OH my poor them, they are ENTITLED to so much more.. sorry that ship has sailed we are mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it anymore and since this writer wants to play the crime card, lets have that discussion. Racism is caused by actions of not a few but many on a daily basis in any big city USA. Black on black violence is out of this world and climbing rapidly just turn on your local TV news and what do you see. You wonder why white people have fears then read the news. The crime here is that I probably won’t get the chance to love the black people I should in this life because of the actions of the crazy ones.
The professor, fails to profess that blacks are killing blacks at a much, much higher rate than whites might be. Wheres the love for his pig mentally similar brothers?
Pig mentally = pigmented
I’m sick of being called racist by discontented blacks and panty-waist liberal apologists of any color. To blame others for your own insecurities, lack of effort, and prissy attitude is just denial. Common sense sez there are going to be radicals on both left and right within any human population. So there’s racism in both directions. Neither is acceptable. Accept reality.
Unfortunately, Obumo and his minions have made things worse. It’s much easier to accept people for who they are when they aren’t pissing on your foot.
lol
“David J. Leonard is Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. He is author of After Artest: Race and the War on Hoop (SUNY Press, spring 2012).”
In other words, he teaches a class on how to hate white America. He went to a state school which means our tax dollars paid for his worthless degree.
As long as we have to deal with bastards like this guy and his ilk, we will never “have it easy”
Shame on Washington State University
I think you'd have to be from around here to realize how screamingly funny this is. This is, to put it charitably, a professional oppression pimp holding forth from a rural, blindingly white region that is something of a binary black hole of academic pretension if you will excuse the term. How one could perceive any national racial angst from Pullman without delving into Disneyesque Fantasyland is a little difficult to imagine. Presumably the good Professor has either a vivid imagination or a life subscription to Ebony magazine and a BET feed, because my very, very few black neighbors turn out to be perfectly normal people who hunt with the rest of us and haven't a clue what this guy is talking about.
That there even could be such a grotesque intellectual travesty as a "Professor of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies" is a testament to the full surrender the academic world has made to the bullying idiocies of the Left. That surrender, I am happy to relate, ends at the campus boundaries. If the good professor thinks it likely that I am going to start shooting my black friends, or they, me, just because a racist jerk such as himself or Jesse or Al, or whoever, thinks it a jolly idea, he can pucker up and kiss it.
Frankly, I'm getting sick of the drama. These idiots are going to get people killed and blame somebody else. Nice work if you happen to be a professor of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies, but if you happen to be a human being, you probably ought to be ashamed of it.
feh... no white guilt here
Dear Professor David J. Leonard, Plenty of honky cracker whitey’s was born with a plastic spoon in their mouth.
...leaving the state, let alone the city and house where we live, for an undisclosed location, because prominent members of American society (including the national press) are openly and actively trying to get us killed and we’re (not entirely without reason) afraid that some genius might try to take them up on it.
My experience has been that white liberals like this clown openly pander as a cover for their own prejudices. I bet this guy lives in a white neighborhood, crosses the other side of streets, and wouldn’t “diversify” a black neighborhood or give up his own ‘job” for “affirmative action”
Typical loser
That's, Cracker Ass Cracker, as known in the hood.
And he failed to ask Black Africans if they think the American Blacks have it so good or not. He also forgot to ask the Haitians....
A lobotomy might be able to help him.
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