Running racism in America thread

Everybody's mad!

 

Dwayne Wade tweeted his support of Cannon and later deleted it. Wade? Fuck you. If someone made a transgender remark as vile as Cannons’ anti-Semitic statement you would be incensed and LeBron and the NBA and ESPN would ruin that person. But since it’s Jewish people getting pissed on and you’re black it’s ok to support irrational hate And racism.

 

I doubt any NFL fans outside of Pittsburgh know who Zach Banner is, but I love the way he responded to DeSean Jackson.

 

Not sure this belongs here or what, but while volunteering at the local food bank today one client and her family came in - family of 5 - and loaded up. It was really disheartening to load the stuff into their car and see that they appeared to be farmworkers. Shoot, I'm glad I live in a community with resources for people to turn to - but it really sucks that the people literally responsible for putting food on our tables, need help putting food on theirs.

 

THROW HIM THE DAMN BALL!

 

"I was too quick to respond without being fully informed"

 

Is White Fragility a racist tract?

The Dehumanizing Condescension of 'White Fragility'

In 2020—as opposed to 1920—I neither need nor want anyone to muse on how whiteness privileges them over me. Nor do I need wider society to undergo teachings in how to be exquisitely sensitive about my feelings. I see no connection between DiAngelo’s brand of reeducation and vigorous, constructive activism in the real world on issues of import to the Black community. And I cannot imagine that any Black readers could willingly submit themselves to DiAngelo’s ideas while considering themselves adults of ordinary self-regard and strength. Few books about race have more openly infantilized Black people than this supposedly authoritative tome.

Or simply dehumanized us. DiAngelo preaches that Black History Month errs in that it “takes whites out of the equation”—which means that it doesn’t focus enough on racism. Claims like this get a rise out of a certain kind of room, but apparently DiAngelo wants Black History Month to consist of glum recitations of white perfidy. This would surely help assuage DiAngelo’s sense of complicity in our problems, but does she consider what a slog this gloomy, knit-browed Festivus of a holiday would be for actual Black people? Too much of White Fragility has the problem of elevating rhetorical texture over common sense.

 

it’s pretty mature of him to admit making a statement without knowing what he was talking about.

maybe this will start a trend, when people get called out on their bigotry, and they admit to it, will they be forgiven? Is Brees back in the good graces of the sporting community?

 

We can wash away all those cultural blindspots with a little emotional elbow grease.

 

The Anti-Semitism We Didn’t See

 

I thought Hill did a good job with that. I posted a link to it and wrote a bit about it in my long post yesterday, but I'm sure it got lost in my rambling.