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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: Libloather
Yawn. So what? America's still 70% white people, followed by Hispanics at 18%. Asians will soon surpass blacks, whose people are withering away because Democrats took away their manhood with the War on Poverty and legalized Abortion in Da hood.

You can whine like the little bitch you are. The Gheys give more money to the Democrats, while the Hispanics and Asians give more votes...you're irrelevant.

81 posted on 12/27/2015 12:44:17 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Libloather

Go to (fornicating) Hell! how dare you presume to accuse me of being a racist! go to Hell and stop breathing my air!


82 posted on 12/27/2015 12:45:01 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Libloather
Yancy, flights leave for Africa every day, take one and take a "brutha" with you.

We can all admit bringing you to this country was a mistake, so let us get rid of you and correct the mistake.

You are not happy, we are not happy with your behavior, so do it.

83 posted on 12/27/2015 12:45:08 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: vette6387

sharing Vette. Good post


84 posted on 12/27/2015 12:46:04 PM PST by katiedidit1
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To: dp0622; Libloather

dp0622: “replace racist with realist.” No, rather replace “racist” with, “you think you’re better than me,” and we arrive at the real source of poison: wounded pride, resentment, and covetousness issuing in envy. With respect to the disgusting author of the odious piece under discussion: malicious envy and sadism that receives unholy pleasure from slyly manipulating its’ intended prey (envied white people) into a gratifying position of self-inflicted submission and degradation.


85 posted on 12/27/2015 12:46:29 PM PST by spirited irish
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To: bjc

I would suggest that Professor Yancy live for six months in the 9th ward of New Orleans and walk to work. He might make it to work but walking back in the evening hours would be exiting.

If he survives I would enjoy reading his next article.


86 posted on 12/27/2015 12:48:24 PM PST by cpdiii
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To: cpdiii

I forgot to add that the fact Yancy is black will not save him.


87 posted on 12/27/2015 12:49:54 PM PST by cpdiii
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To: Lonely Bull

He’s saying all whites are racists which is almost universally untrue. Then he says we shouldn’t deny we’re racists like it’s an undeniable fact. I think this guys a racist for racially harassing whites.


88 posted on 12/27/2015 12:49:56 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftistshttps://terri0729.fil is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: spirited irish

wow. that was great.


89 posted on 12/27/2015 12:50:12 PM PST by dp0622 (i)
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To: Libloather
I used to be fascinated by those cool ones they had in L.A. that keep spinning after they stop.

God knows what those cost.

90 posted on 12/27/2015 12:53:13 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Libloather
feh...
91 posted on 12/27/2015 12:54:33 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Crucial
Very close, but not quite. Anything that whites do to assist blacks is racist because it's whites helping blacks assimilate into the "white" world. Until there is not "white world", all whites are racist -- period.

His argument not mine. Now that he's drawn the lines so clearly, I guess it doesn't matter whether I'm racist or not.

92 posted on 12/27/2015 12:55:15 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: Lonely Bull

Spot on FRiend!


93 posted on 12/27/2015 1:01:40 PM PST by vpintheak (Death before disarmament!)
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To: Libloather

Dear mr. yancy,

I don’t know what you are referring to.

I’m a half-breed Mojave, so i do not have any guilt about any of that. The other half is Prussian, and I am proud to announce that, too. Prussian history is one of ethics, talent, and intelligence combined. Napoleon feared the Prussians. The U.S. Army feared the Mojaves, to where they occupy the only “reservation” that is in 3 pieces in 3 states.

Now, compare that to the 9th Ward post-Katrina New Orleans porchsitter, and tell me that it is -I- that should be guilty.


94 posted on 12/27/2015 1:03:48 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Libloather

The crack is strong in this one.


95 posted on 12/27/2015 1:04:28 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Libloather

Thanks.


96 posted on 12/27/2015 1:13:24 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore)
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To: Libloather

Blame your parents who made you Black. White America had nothing to do with it. But we are sick of your putrid prejudice against the White taxpayers who have had trillions of dollars taken by the government in a vain attempt to make you equal, but you prefer to wallow in your self pity. We would be a better country without most of you, and in the case of Affirmative Action hires, 99% of you.


97 posted on 12/27/2015 1:14:08 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Nea Wood

It is racist to say blacks should get on a boat back to Africa, and that I’ll buy them the ticket.

However I WILL chip in for swim fins.


98 posted on 12/27/2015 1:16:09 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: Libloather
the ways in which you perpetuate a racist society, the ways in which you are racist.

I believe in individualism and free will. I therefore judge each person as an individual not collectivistically or deterministically. It is libtards who are collectivists and determinists and are obsessed with groups and divide everyone into groups.

99 posted on 12/27/2015 1:25:31 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Libloather

85% of the world’s population is NOT WHITE.

Only majority white countries have positive rates of immigration in most years.

Only majority white countries have social and political programs intended to encourage “multiculturalism” and “diversity”.

Only in majority white countries are non-whites cheering the soon to arrive minority status of whites, the “browning” of majority white countries.

In majority white countries, non-whites form racial and ethnic collectives, organizations, political entities, specifically designed to advocate for their skin color and ethnic heritage.

My answer to this letter is: F you. Every word from non-white racialists awakens more and more whites to their situation. Your worst nightmare is a white population as race conscious as non-whites already are.


100 posted on 12/27/2015 1:27:13 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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