Posted on 12/27/2015 11:46:05 AM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
If you are white, and you are reading this letter, I ask that you don't run to seek shelter from your own racism. Don't hide from your responsibility. Rather, begin, right now, to practice being vulnerable. Being neither a "good" white person nor a liberal white person will get you off the proverbial hook. I consider myself to be a decent human being. Yet, I'm sexist. Take another deep breath. I ask that you try to be "un-sutured." If that term brings to mind a state of pain, open flesh, it is meant to do so. After all, it is painful to let go of your "white innocence," to use this letter as a mirror, one that refuses to show you what you want to see, one that demands that you look at the lies that you tell yourself so that you don't feel the weight of responsibility for those who live under the yoke of whiteness, your whiteness.
I can see your anger. I can see that this letter is being misunderstood. This letter is not asking you to feel bad about yourself, to wallow in guilt. That is too easy. I'm asking for you to tarry, to linger, with the ways in which you perpetuate a racist society, the ways in which you are racist. I'm now daring you to face a racist history which, paraphrasing Baldwin, has placed you where you are and that has formed your own racism. Again, in the spirit of Baldwin, I am asking you to enter into battle with your white self. I'm asking that you open yourself up; to speak to, to admit to, the racist poison that is inside of you.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com ...
I don’t understand your point.
“I ask that you don’t run to seek shelter from your own racism.”
I’m so proud of being redneck that I think rednecks can exist in any race.
It matters more to him than it does to me.
Just kidding kinda. But I give God respect for rednecks.
Did you notice that in both articles the same key sentences are used ?
Almost as if they were a set of talking points that were released to certain individuals for them to write an ‘article’ around.
He should get a dose of his own medicine, see if he likes the logic or lack thereof
So the fact that he paints all white people with the same brush isn’t racist, right?
George Yancy, Ph.D.
Professor
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Department of Philosophy
On leave for AY 2015-2016.
Phone: 412.396.6408
yancy518@duq.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Philosophy, Duquesne University, 2005
M.A., Africana Studies, New York University, 2004
M.A., Philosophy, Yale University, 1987
B.A., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1985 (Cum Laude)
George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy, works primarily in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy of the Black experience. He is particularly interested in the formation of African-American philosophical thought as articulated within the social context and historical space of anti-Black racism, African-American agency, and identity formation. His current work has focused on the theme of whiteness and how it constitutes a site of embedded social reality and a site of opacity. He links these two foci to such themes as white subject formation, white epistemic ways of knowing/not knowing, privilege and hegemony, and forms of white spatial bonding as processes of white solidarity and interpellation. He is also interested in how such forms of white epistemic bonding constitute sites of white intelligibility formation. Yancy also explores the theme of racial embodiment, particularly in terms of how white bodies live their whiteness unreflectively vis-a-vis the interpellation and deformation of the black body and other bodies of color. Within this context, his work also explores Black Erlebnis or the lived experience of black people, which raises important questions regarding Black subjectivity, modes of Black spatial mobility, and embodied resistance. He is also interested in the intersection between philosophy and biography. More specifically, he is interested in questions regarding philosophical self-formation and the impact of this formation on how philosophers come to valorize certain philosophical problems over others. In this regard, he is interested in the ways in which philosophy and philosophical world-views are impacted by extra-philosophical processes like culture, sentiment, and so on. As Co-Editor of The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, he firmly believes in the significance of black philosophical voices, and black knowledge production, as sites of conceptual and existential transformative possibilities. He also serves as an ex officio member of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Blacks in Philosophy.
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Well he has a self consistent claim even if it isn’t true: “Everybody is racist.”
The problem is then what race gets to define things. He can’t have his racism cake and eat it too.
In other words he is interested in illogical hocus pocus word games which get to damn people he does not like, but never need to back it up.
How many does that make this hour?
We hear it from Winfrey's Oprah: old racists 'have to die' - MSNBC.com but we also listen to the federal government crime stats that I assembled (with links to sources)Federal crime statistics are a rebuttal to the race-grievance industry lies.
I ask you to look deep, to look into your souls with silence, to quiet that voice that will speak to you of your white “innocence.†. . . What I’m asking is that you first accept the racism within yourself,
full disclosure.. I did not read the whole thing. If this was a parody -- good one it got me bowels in an uproar; if it's for real -- I've heard it all... borrrring.
The race grievance industry, the Obama, Holder demagogues, most university employees, and most MSM employees could apply half the energy they use whining to a useful and fulfilling endeavor and know what white privilege really means.
What a load of tripe (him, not you!). Thanks for the email and phone number!
He earned that job fair and square...through affirmative action.
well, you can go visit the neighborhoods that used to be Italian but they were driven out due to brutal crime by guess who?
then get back to me.
I have no desire to be helpful.
I’d call him up say yeah I’m a redneck and glad of it what’s it to ya, you wanna win in this world, be a redneck too... got a Dixie flag pin just waiting to mail to him....
This moron’s article would have actually made a LOT more sense over 100 years ago when a majority of ALL races were actually racist, and when whites were actually racist against OTHER whites, and phrases putting down Irishmen, Slavic and Italians.
Whites grew out of their racism and their reward is now to be belittled by these liberal morons and nincompoops while a free pass is given to the non-white races for their racism.
If the libs keep this crap up, they may end up reviving and feeding the very white racism that they keep constantly whining about.
Shout wolf too many times and you may very well summon an actual wolf!
It’s plainly obvious that the racist community is entirely composed of those accusing others of racism.
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