Posted on 06/09/2020 5:03:15 PM PDT by Stravinsky
For white people who have just recently recognized their own complicity in America's racist systems and are looking to "fix" that — it's not going to happen overnight.
"It's a little bit like saying 'I want to be in shape tomorrow' ..." says author Robin DiAngelo. "This is going to be a process."
DiAngelo is the author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. The book came out in 2018, and is back on the best-seller lists as streets fill with protesters calling for an end to police violence against black people.
The status quo in the United States is racism, DiAngelo says, and "it is comfortable for me, as a white person, to live in a racist society."
DiAngelo says to sustain the momentum of these protests, it must become uncomfortable for white people to continue to benefit from racist systems.
"We've got to start making it uncomfortable and figuring out what supports we're going to put in place to help us continue to be uncomfortable," she says. "Because the forces of comfort are quite seductive."
This [work] will be lifelong: really thinking deeply about what it means to be white, how your race shapes your life. We live in a society that turns race over to people of color. They have a race. We're just people. And so we see ourselves as outside of race. And that's problematic for many reasons. But there's so much potentially rich insight that we can gain from deeply reflecting on our own racial experiences.
Nice, white people who really aren't doing anything other than being nice people are racist. We are complicit with that system. There is no neutral place.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
What racist society?
FU bring it on.
>> for white people to continue to benefit from racist systems.
Yeah, not sure how I’m benefiting from this BS.
This is pure, utter BS....and they know it.
This is just to stir up hate....they’re doing a good job of it.
That’s nice
Why don’t you call an alcoholic a dry drunk so he can never win...
NPR = taxpayer funded Saul Alinsky
Defund and dismantle NPR.
Fuck you, Robin.
Blacks are the second coming of Jesus. Altruistic, non-criminal and very caring families and fathers.
It is very unlikely that Ari Shapiro is anything but hostile to white people.
“Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.”
Not allowed to cite facts. Not allowed to express certain ideas. Not allowed to contribute to the conversation, may only listen.
Are you such a divisive piece of bigoted shit that you can pretend not to know those things?
You are welcome to do so Ms DeAngelo. But I have a life to live and am not going to spend any time reflecting on what it means to be white, or black or yellow or brown for that matter. And questioning my so-called privilege. I grew up with eight siblings. My parents, God bless them, did the best they could but money was tight. When I was in fourth grade I cut lawns for money. I graduated to delivering newspapers, then the gas station, then bussing tables in a restaurant. I went to school and got a degree and got a great job and made some real money. What was my white privilege exactly?
In other words, whites have to give up their jobs, money and even their lives to satisfy the racist left. Nice try honey-you go first.
Exactly. Now just kneel down and apologize for your racist white being, shut up and listen and don’t you dare have any independent thought.
So is this black woman a racist? Arabs wont let her loot.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3853904/posts
I dont care about their BS anymore. Go ahead and Defund the police but make it quick. I want to see what happens before the election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYXYfdsaHxg
3:02 / 5:42
HELLYEAH - I Don’t Care Anymore (Official Video)
our tax money paid for this.
Joke from my hippie days...
Negro friend: “Don’t worry! When the revolution comes, I’ll watch out for you.”
Was reminded of that joke lately.
Its not just a white thing.
Plenty of blacks hate whites and other races, yet put a fake smile and fake niceness on display.
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