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Thoughts about White Privilege and Racial Justice (For BrightSmile) Hello Starwomyn.........After reading this I wish that you would write a blog about it I mean the part.........white privilege is something that white people take for granted and don't even have to think about it Bright Smile asked me to do a blog on White Privilege so here it is. It is something that we take for granted and may not even realize that we have it. Being a part of the majority has advantages. Mrs. Joe talked about common folks of all colors getting together and simply talking to each other. This is exactly what is happening at our yearly Quaker gatherings. The last three years have been devoted to the topic of white privilege and racism. We protested about this in the 60's and between Obama, Trump and cell phone videos, it is evident that we still have a ways to go. When I see the video of a black woman who is stopped for a traffic violation, publically stripped by Texas police and her v*gina probed by the cops for marijuana, I have to conclude that marijuana is the lessor evil. The cop says he smells marijuana all the way from the inside of her v*gina , using it as an excuse to violate her and calls it normal behavior. White Privilege means, it is not my concern because it won't happen to me. My world has expanded since the 60's. People of color have been my neighbors, co-workers, church mates, fellow 12 steppers and are now even family members. These are people that I care about even as fellow human beings. I want them to be safe, happy and prosperous too. The 2010 census places whites as 68 percent and blacks as 16 percent of the population. This means that we are in the majority to can lead the way to stand up for racial economic, educational, and environmental equality and justice. This is one of the reasons why I will stand up for Colin Kaepernick and the other Athletes who are using their unique position to take a stand. The NFL and the Fans should support them. Just my not so humble prospective.  Abracadabra  |
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9/27/2017 6:27 am |
Hello Starwoman........Thank you so much for this and I am hoping that some of the folk here will understand what "White privilege" really is. If they are sincere they can read what Tim Wise has to say about it.
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Hello Starwoman........Thank you so much for this and I am hoping that some of the folk here will understand what "White privilege" really is. If they are sincere they can read what Tim Wise has to say about it. “To pay attention to the American political process, and what the candidates for this nation’s highest office have to say and not say about the issues that are of importance to them and thus we are to presume importance to the Nation, you would get the impression that the issue of race, that the issue of racism, that the issue of discrimination, and certainly that the issue of white racial privilege were non existent issues; that they were of really no importance, or that of very little importance, because you will not hear and have not heard any of the candidates for the presidency of the United States, in either party, of whatever political ideology, make this an issue. Yes,they talk about poverty and occasionally they talk about schooling and education. They talk about healthcare. They talk about all of those things, but not once have any of those candidates tried to directly connect the role that racism, the role that racial discrimination, the role that institutional racial oppression and white privilege play in regard to health care, in regard to housing, in regard to schooling. It is as if those issues exist in a vacuum and have no relationship to color, have no relationship to race, have no relationship to a history of racial subordination.” ― Tim Wise I think this is one of the truest quotes I've heard since I read John Howard Griffin's book in the 60s.
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9/28/2017 9:31 pm |
As an European immigrant, with Europe creating 2 genocides of which i'm ashamed, with the right wing increasing again allover there; and now here, I continue to be extremely ashamed, especially that the infection became ingrained up to the gvt. In Europe, populism has a pejorative meaning; and it's from Europe that the dark ideologies originate, let's not forget that. Yet, the original liberties philosophy is also from there, which inspired the fathers of the Constitution, to make the US a democracy. There is no right place to fight for civil rights, there is no right place to protest against obscurantism, but that, the place is chosen has a good reason, has a meaning, a sacred meaning: meaning that there is a crisis, a crisis in democracy -that original one- and, obviously in the gvt., that's not resolved, not heard, and overall, that there is no will to be resolved. If today, some just don't see that human suffering is erased from the equations, but only the object that had indeed a symbolic meaning originally, but which is used, transformed today as an excuse, just another one, to maintain and continue to not be willing to see, then that's what's unacceptable: the human rights and liberties is what's the most sacred and comes before any type of object, especially when it's used to manipulate the people.
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9/29/2017 10:30 am |
Tx, the vets and those of Vietnam have been manipulated heavily, and used with their lives and for generations to come. But understand that under that object so symbolic, the flag, were other ostracized people, if you agree to the rich diversity of this country. This post and all the kneelings just do relate to racism's long history against the blacks. This post is about the struggles of the blacks, perpetrated by the whites. It's absolutely not against the veterans. This types of posts are useful and need to be more of them. Bright, I kneel in front of you !!
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