Posted on 05/20/2018 10:22:13 AM PDT by Cubs Fan
White people can be exhausting.
“It’s work to be the only person of color in an organization, bearing the weight of all your white co-workers’ questions about Blackness.
“It’s work to always be hypervisible because of your skin — easily identified as being present or absent — but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you.
“It’s work to do the emotional labor of pointing out problematic racist thinking, policies, action and statements while desperately trying to avoid bitterness and cynicism.
“Quite frankly, the work isn’t just tedious. It can be dangerous for Black women to attempt to carve out space for themselves — their perspective, their gifts, their skills, their education, their experiences — in places that haven’t examined the prevailing assumption of white culture. The danger of letting whiteness walk off with our joy, our peace, our sense of dignity and self-love, is ever present. As a black woman working in white spaces, my perception of racial dynamics has been questioned, minimized, or denied altogether.”
These words are from Austin Channing Brown’s new book, “I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,” released this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
So many of them hate anything White and then they scream when a White person points out their hypocrisy....must be Hell to live in their heads....
I’ve warned my children about the environment of hate in which so many young blacks are raised; they won’t be caught unawares. Now that we have an super-lib governor here in NJ, apparently our most pressing concerns are legalizing weed and dispersing our black population from cities - officially under the guise of desegregating schools, but in actuality, to attach them to taxpaying hosts who will provide their emergency services and public education funding (most contribute little to nothing for their own upkeep, so the cities are bankrupt). If NJ thought the recovery was bad before, this will end any hopes at all - nobody wants to buy a home or operate a business here, and that will get even worse.
I would refuse to sit there on the grounds that having to look at that tub of lard in a sausage skin is cruel and unusual punishment. She is the embodiment of all that is wrong with this country and she has the nerve to stand there and tell others that THEY are the problem.
My heart pumps piss for you. We get it, you hate white people.
If you don't like it here, you can always migrate back to Africa. Seriously.
And I worked in HR.
Shawn Cassidy.
>>I asked a black person once a “black culture”<<
The old “Watermelon vs. Fried Chicken.”
I can relate.
;)
No; there are MILIIONS like him!
But they don't sell papers.
indeed!
Or the Indian one; either.
South Africa...
But OH! the privileges!!!
My prior employer at one point had sessions like that optional but necessary to qualify for a raise, then made it mandatory as “trust and respect” training.
I agree. And some people can be annoying...
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