Pardon My Whiteness

townhall.com ^ | 2/26/2021 | Jeff Davidson

[rktman]

For all the decades I've been alive, I never realized that my whiteness was a problem for the rest of society. I'm one of those people who merely gets up every day, brushes his teeth, gets dressed, eats a decent breakfast, and goes to work.

I had no idea that in the U.S. and other western nations white people like me had been “socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white.” Gosh, how naive I have been all these years!

Of late, I’ve learned that to be "less white" is a virtue! It requires one to be "less oppressive, less arrogant, less certain, less defensive, less ignorant," and, more humble, more willing to listen, more willing to believe, and, get this, "to break with the apathy" that white people like me exhibit and "to break with white solidarity."

Enlightened Author and Woke Institutions

White solidarity? Gosh, nobody told me about this, but now it's all become so clear thanks to enlightened (white) authors like Robin DiAngelo, who wrote the (thoroughly racist and condescending book) White Fragility, and thanks to companies such as Coca-Cola which have the foresight to impose programs for its white employees, to be less white.

[sauropod]

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