Posted on 12/27/2015 11:46:05 AM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
If you are white, and you are reading this letter, I ask that you don't run to seek shelter from your own racism. Don't hide from your responsibility. Rather, begin, right now, to practice being vulnerable. Being neither a "good" white person nor a liberal white person will get you off the proverbial hook. I consider myself to be a decent human being. Yet, I'm sexist. Take another deep breath. I ask that you try to be "un-sutured." If that term brings to mind a state of pain, open flesh, it is meant to do so. After all, it is painful to let go of your "white innocence," to use this letter as a mirror, one that refuses to show you what you want to see, one that demands that you look at the lies that you tell yourself so that you don't feel the weight of responsibility for those who live under the yoke of whiteness, your whiteness.
I can see your anger. I can see that this letter is being misunderstood. This letter is not asking you to feel bad about yourself, to wallow in guilt. That is too easy. I'm asking for you to tarry, to linger, with the ways in which you perpetuate a racist society, the ways in which you are racist. I'm now daring you to face a racist history which, paraphrasing Baldwin, has placed you where you are and that has formed your own racism. Again, in the spirit of Baldwin, I am asking you to enter into battle with your white self. I'm asking that you open yourself up; to speak to, to admit to, the racist poison that is inside of you.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com ...
I’ll face my ‘racist history’ when other ‘races’ own-up to theirs.
Could not have said it better.
“George Yancy Research:
Critical Philosophy of Race (phenomenology of racial embodiment, social ontology of race)
Critical Whiteness Studies (white subject formation, white racist ambush, white opacity and embeddedness, white complicity, white anti-racist praxis)
African-American Philosophy and Philosophy of the Black Experience (resistance, Black identity formation, meta-philosophical questions regarding the nature of philosophy and racial identity, Black narrative identities, Black social ontology, Black existential struggle, and Black standpoint epistemology in relation to the nature of African American philosophy)”
It occurs to me that without Black Studies programs, race obsession, affirmative action and forced diversity, the number of black professors in universities would be near zero
Heard it from my Italian landlady in New Orleans, back in 1975. She told me how young black punks intimidated her on the street in her old West Bank neighborhood of Westwego. Never with white men around, three or four of them would surround her on the street, and the lead punk would get up in her face and ask, nastily, "You still here?"
Frighten the women, they'll move away, and the men will have to go with them if the women won't stay. Those little b*stards knew exactly what they were doing, and the Com-MUNE-a-tee </off Shiela Jackson Lee> knew what they were doing, too, and didn't jerk them up straight. The white community got policed by the FBI; where were the FBI when it was time for "demographic change" (or we'll beat your white ass until you can't stand up)?
Also, for the reading-inclined, described at some length by Theodore White in his Making of the President 1964, in his chapter about the New York race riots that impacted US politics that year.
“well, you can go visit the neighborhoods that used to be Italian but they were driven out due to brutal crime by guess who? then get back to me.”
I can tell you that things worked differently in NY. They didnt wait for a crime wave. The first black family on a block caused a cascade of selling since they knew the property values were going to plummet (and they did).
I'd imagine students who have these books as required reading for their Halfrican American Studies classes.
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard,
And they're like
It's better than yours,
Damn right it's better than yours,
I can teach you,
But I have to charge
- Kelis
Like that?
The quote by Lyndon Johnson about getting black voters to vote Democratic for the next 200 years is infamous, so I needn't repeat it, but it underlies and inspirits the instrumental and brutal determination of the Democratic Party to rule at all costs.
Worse, they've taken affirmative measures to reproletarize the middle class -- with the concurrence of the rich -- in order to maintain their grip on black, Hispanic, and low-income voters. Two great parties, one lusting to break wages and deprive people of jobs and wages they've earned on the square, and the other to achieve an unbreakable grip on power and effectively end the Republic, present us with a long and possibly bloody agenda. Both these factions, whose leadership cadres are actually quite small, must take their turns being broken on the wheel.
Like the beauteous Tashfeen Malik, the shaheedi pinup girl from Redlands, California. Or Pakistan.
Beauty like someone's description of Edward Randolph's rhetoric, as being like a dead mackerel, "shining and stinking in the moonlight".
Other suggestions welcome.
Ted White described it in the book and chapter referenced in my post. He went into it partly from personal knowledge, since he was a New York reporter in his day job, and partly because it was germane to the politics of 1964 in both parties as they responded to the challenge of black violence, black politicoeconomic blackmail by entrepreneurial Trotsky-wannabe's, and white "backlash" </cant>.
The trigger for the 1964 riot was a racial violence incident initiated by YBM's; the driver was the process you and I were discussing.
Thanks for the article.
You are right about the women being afraid so the men have to move too.
I would move very close to a black neighborhood on Staten Island because the prices are great and they’re still 70 or more percent white. (just MUCH closer to bad neighborhoods)
But how can I without worrying about my better half after nightfall?
The story you told me about New Orleans is a familiar and disgusting one
Remember how, when the assailants of truck driver Reginald Denny, also known as the Eight Trey Gangsta Crips (83rd Street Crips), were dragged into court to answer for having tried to kill him with hunks of concrete after the so-called Rodney King trial (in which King was a complainant not a defendant) started huge riots in "South Central" Los Angeles (previously known as Watts), numbers of witnesses from the neighborhood came forward to defend the assailants and lie about the driver? They told the court tall tales about how Denny had driven down Normandie Avenue bellowing racial epithets out his truck window, and he did this, and he said that, and it was all a pack of lies. The man was saved only by the intercession of a black minister who physically stood over him and protected him from the Crips.
The point being that members of The Com-MUNE-a-tee crowded into a criminal courtroom to lie like dogs for the Crips, who were their young racial warriors against the hated white Ice People/Beast People/Ofays.
I’m convinced. I’m going to turn all my slaves free. Fair enough?
the establishment of departments of Black Studies in the universities has paid off beyond our expectations. I believe that we erred in opposing them. These departments now exist on almost all campuses. The immediate advantage is that they emphasize the difference between the races (as does the phrase “African-Americanâ€) and, in the Negro, encourage the blessed sense of victimhood. Perhaps more important in the long run is that, by their lack of content, Black Studies produce uneducated Negros carrying meaningless college degrees. This supports the suspicion among Whites that Negro graduates of universities are of low intelligence. By encouraging the use of Black English, we further this goal.
recommendation: use the social media, under differing identities, to urge the acceptance of Ebonics as a foreign language, the imposition of lighter sentences for violent crime, an increase in the scope and amount of welfare payments (particularly to single mothers), and to promote highly visible forms of affirmative action. This last, for example, will cause Whites to shun Negro doctors and attorneys as Whites will come to regard all with suspicion.
departments, separate student governments, de facto quota favoritism in jobs/government contracts/benefits, and even separate tv/cable channels.
perhaps this university needs closing.
The backlash against the black race in American cities has not yet come
When it does come there will be hell to pay in the big cities.
best get the hell out now
Let’s imagine we stopped EVERYBODY’s government payouts. Politicians, bureaucrats, welfare queens, senior citizens, military, corporations, etc.
I’m guessing culture, not race, would determine the winners and losers.
George Yancy.... More proof that not all cockroaches are beetles......
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