Posted on 09/09/2017 8:47:01 AM PDT by rktman
Relics of the past should be preserved, for the sake of history, art, and future generations. But the current frenzy to demand removal of (and in some cases actually violently destroy) Confederate monuments, and even American monuments threatens to erase large swaths of American history -- noble and deplorable alike.
The arts are certainly not immune to the hysteria. In response to a theater in Tennessee cancelling a showing of Gone With the Wind, because of its “insensitivity,” New York Magazine’s Vulture published a piece calling the film, “a cinematic monument to the Confederacy.” However, Angelica Jade Bastien, the essayist, argued that the film should in fact be preserved. Why? “When watching Gone With the Wind, white audiences today who are willing to examine their racist failings must also examine how they specifically propagate the mythology that upholds white supremacy,” she reasoned.
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Libs called me deplorable for supporting Trump last year now they are calling me a racist this year. I guess I should change my handle to Racist DeplorableAmerican1776, but next year, I might be called a Homophobe, so I will wait til next year to rename me ‘HomophobicRacistDeplorableAmerican1776’
BINGO -
and acknowledge it was BLACK chieftains who brought the blacks to the coast and sold them to the slavers. the slavers did not go into the Congo after them.
Go get you apologies and reparations from the Black Chieftains first - and pay reparations to me for my ancestors that went down south and fought to free our ancestors.
THEN, we can talk.
Liberals want to invert the social hierarchy they think existed up to the 1950s, putting whites on the bottom and other minorities on top.
In order to do that, they have to guilt trip the descendants of the guilty into submission.
“Shut up you privileged white person, you’ve inherited their privileged and thus guilt, but we’ll tolerate you if you go to the back of the bus because some of your ancestors made some of their ancestors do exactly that. In the name of fairness, we have to discriminate against you.”
It is like the systemic humiliations and abuse mandated by Shariah law on dhimmis. You can’t be given the same greetings of respect, have to step off the sidewalk to make room for Muslims, wear clothes that show you are inferior so no one accidentally accords you respect, deliberately humiliated with blows or being spat on when paying the dhimmi tax.
So true.
I’m waiting for the day that we (white and black) say ENOUGH!
Stow it.
racial equality will happen when more intelligent citizens dumb themselves down.
A process in place today in the classrooms of higher education.
Hey New Wanker, how about just examining my tater hole and kissing it?
“NYM: White Audiences Must ‘Examine Their Racist Failings”
The only people who read this racist magazine are racist pigs. FR needs to ban these goose-stepping racists from FR.
FR won’t allow racist ranting from the KKK. Why allow the same racist ranting from leftist DNC NYC racists?
Hello, moderators, do your job and reject NYC rat racists from FR. Reject this article.
“So no articles/posts you don’t care for? Odd. Know thy enemy.”
That’s not the point, rktman. FR is buried with posted, leftist, lying media garbage. We have a bunch of hand-wringers and surrender monkeys on FR who fall for this leftist crap posted on FR. It’s time to cut off spewage of leftist propaganda on FR.
If people on FR want neo-Nazi garbage propaganda, they can go to NYT, WP, NPR, CBS, CNN, etc., etc.
Everyone not white needs to examine their racist failings. We don’t live in their shithole countries and call them bigots.
black audiences must ‘examine their failings in colorism,’ of blaming everything bad in the world on people with a lighter skin color.
For the author to point out anything about “white” is solidly RACIST.
35 years of affirmative action and blacks still can’t get jobs? Some not-white folks need to examine their racist failings.
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