Posted on 04/30/2024 10:48:43 AM PDT by nickcarraway
What anti-racism workshops taught us
We had to correct her, and we knew how to do it by now. We would not sit quietly in our white-bodied privilege, nor would our corrections be given apologetically or packaged with niceties. There I was, one of about 30 people attending a four-day-long Zoom seminar called “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” hosted by the group Education for Racial Equity.
An older white woman whom I’ll call Stacy had confessed to the group that she was ashamed of being white, and that she hoped in her next life she wouldn’t be white anymore. This provided us with a major learning moment. One participant began by amping herself up, intoning the concepts we’d been taught over the past two days: “Grounding, rooting, removing Bubble Wrap.” Then she got into it. “What I heard you say about wanting to come back as a dark-skinned person in your next life was racist, because as white people we don’t have the luxury of trying on aspects of people of color.”
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Oh, gag me. 🙄
Das right, senior.
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The only reason I opened this thread. THANK YOU!! LOL
When I need to know the state of white women at any point in time I always turn first to The Atlantic.
I think she is already that...a pathetic, self-loathing sewer rat.
The logical solution to this delusion of whiteness being a problem is... segregation! These people are so incredibly stupid.
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