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Dear White America
NY Times ^ | 12/24/15 | George Yancy

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academicbias; america; black; endwhiteshaming; georgeyancy; liberalbigot; naughtyteacherslist; racistpoison; sexist; waronwhites; white
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To: Feckless

Hey, it is how they advance their position and wealth. Race pimping sells and the stupid give you unearned power and property.


161 posted on 12/28/2015 5:48:56 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

“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”

Don’t think for one second that he doesn’t know this fact. The left side of the Bell curve is real.


162 posted on 12/28/2015 6:00:11 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Libloather

The race card is all they have.


163 posted on 12/28/2015 6:43:09 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Libloather

California stands a very good chance of going Republican for the first time since Reagan. LINK
164 posted on 12/28/2015 1:48:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: Libloather

Truly the victim-hood is strong with this one


165 posted on 12/29/2015 6:15:49 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: rlmorel

Amazing, but pointing out dat trufe be racist.


166 posted on 12/29/2015 6:20:50 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Today harlots would let Solomon cut their babies in half.)
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To: Libloather
This letter is not asking you to feel bad about yourself, to wallow in guilt.

But the rest of the letter suggests otherwise.

167 posted on 12/29/2015 6:24:10 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

Most racism I see seems to emanate from “colored” racists.


168 posted on 12/29/2015 6:31:30 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: DungeonMaster

Agreed. I think there exists a large number of people of many colors and stripes who regard my post as offensive or even racist.

However, when I look at the racial and cultural views of those same people, I can’t bring myself to be concerned about saying it.

When speaking the truth becomes unacceptable, we know what follows that.


169 posted on 12/29/2015 11:22:21 AM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: OpusatFR

Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man’s burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.

Take up the White Man’s burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man’s burden—
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
“Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”

Take up the White Man’s burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man’s burden—
Have done with childish days—
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!


170 posted on 12/30/2015 10:19:32 AM PST by keving (We get the government we vote forever)
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To: central_va; Libloather

Ah, if only I had the means to make a movie I would do a remake of It’s a Wonderful Life titled It’s a Wonderful Non-White Life. It would feature a white man distraught because he was persuaded that his kind was responsible for everything wrong with the world.

As he was contemplating suicide an angel would show him what the world would be like without the accomplishments, inventions, art, literature, and progress created by whites. It would feature a lot of mud huts, disease, destruction of the environment, etc. I would love to see the liberals come unglued about that.


171 posted on 01/01/2016 9:16:38 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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