Whitesplaning Racism

[Moonglow]

It is when white women played into the racism. Ask Emmitt Till. So then you step back.

White Women and Racial Complicity

To be a white woman in America is to be precariously power-adjacent: Because of our skin, we carry unquestioned privilege in power systems. Because of our gender, that security has a shelf life—we are included only as long as we are able or willing to perform according to those who control the levers.

It’s a dangerous charade, one so deeply internalized it often goes unexamined. Our history indicates that when white women want agency, we often go to white men—even when they are the source of our exclusion, or even if we have to sell out others along the way. In the wake of the 15th Amendment granting black men the right to vote, suffragists including Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Laura Clay made their case for the white woman vote by appealing to white supremacy. In January, a new book revealed that Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who accused Emmett Till of touching her in 1955, had lied.

White women in America face a deficit of trust uniquely of our own making.

White Women and Racial Complicity

A Short History of White Women’s Complicity
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

In Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, historian Elizabeth Gillespie McRae makes a strong argument for white women’s vital role in protecting and perpetuating white supremacy and thwarting integration in the US. One hundred years ago, woman began to organize in ways that we would recognize from today’s resistance movements. They developed grassroots campaigns reaching out to other women and encouraging them to organize, to write letters, to publish, to speak up and to vote. They did this, however, in the name of Jim Crow, as a way to shore up white power in the face of legislation that would dismantle it. McRae demonstrates how white women, not just in the South but across the nation, turned their traditional roles as mothers, defenders of family and children, tellers of stories, and activists in schools into a political force that sustained racism, reshaped American conservatism, and continues to influence our politics and culture.

McRae’s goal is to demonstrate that the “fiercest proponents” of massive resistance to desegregation and racial integration in 20th century America were “…the daily grassroots activists who continually reshaped their support for various versions of racial segregation.” These diehard activists were largely white women who used their special roles in social welfare, public education, electoral politics and popular culture to keep the spirit of Jim Crow alive even when its legal basis had been removed by the Supreme Court and the federal government. She divides the book into two parts and a conclusion. Part I is entitled “Massive Support for Racial Segregation, 1920-1941”, Part II is “Massive Resistance to the Black Freedom Struggle, 1942-1974,” and the conclusion is “The New National Face of Segregation: Boston Women Against Busing.”

A Short History of White Women’s Complicity

Check yourself woman. White women owned slaves, white women participated in Jim Crow nationwide. White women lied about black men and they were killed by those who you say oppressed you. You married your oppressors and when he died, you inherited your oppressors money/property if he had any. You married your oppressor and if you got divorced, you got half of what your oppressor had. So step back trying to come me like that lady. Humble yourself and know your history.

Because this is part of it.

Emmett Till's Accuser: I Made It Up

Man.....!!!

So what exactly does some kid who has been dead over half a century have to do with current events?

Inflamation of emotions.

 

[Dale Smith]

This section of USMB is he ultimate example of whitesplaining.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

May 17, 2017 by Maisha Z. Johnson

And unfortunately, just as frequently, I’ve had white people try to explain racism to me, a woman of color. There’s a word for this phenomenon, too –whitesplaining. It’s incredibly frustrating to share my experiences with racism, only to have a white person try to speak over me about it – and often by belittling how racism hurts me.

If you’re white, you may have whitesplained without realizing it. To understand whitesplaining, now picture yourself in the following situation.

I’m venting about my day, and I tell you I’m angry that a white neighbor told me, “I don’t even see you as Black.”

Would you reassure me that my neighbor meant well? If you do, don’t be surprised if I’m just as annoyed as you would be if a man tried to explain your experience with street harassment to you.

Usually, signs of whitesplaining include a condescending tone and a paternalistic assumption that a person of color doesn’t know enough to accurately articulate their own experience.

The term doesn’t apply to every instance when a white person talks about racism, just like mansplaining doesn’t apply to every instance when a man talks about gender oppression. But whitesplaining is a result of the power white people hold as part of the dominant culture in the US. So recognizingwhen it’s happening is one of the everyday ways you can help dismantle the oppressive system of white supremacy.

Like with other forms of privileged explaining, including mansplaining, people who whitesplain have been conditioned to believe that they’re somehow more qualified to speak about a marginalized group than a person who belongs to that group.

That’s why there’s no equivalent like “blacksplaining.” When a Black person talks about race with a white person, they don’t have the same institutional power as a white person who belongs to the dominant culture.

And that’s the problem with whitesplaining. It’s not just harmlessly discussing racism, but implicitly acting on racist ideas that say that people of color are ignorant and wrong, even about their own experiences.

You probably don’t think you’re motivated by racist ideas when you whitesplain – just like men don’t have to hate women in order to participate in everyday sexism like mansplaining.

For instance, you might think you have a perfectly good reason for telling me my neighbor didn’t mean to be racist. You’ve spent time with her, and you’ve never known her to be racist, or you can tell she meant to compliment me by saying she doesn’t see me as Black.

But while these well-meaning reasons for correcting me feel true, it’s also true that you can act on subconscious, implicit biases leading you to dismiss what I have to say because I’m Black.

If you don’t believe whitesplaining is wrong, then you’re missing how the motivation behind whitesplaining is influenced by white supremacy. So let’s unpack the most common reasons why whitesplaining happens, to examine why it’s so misguided.

I guarantee that many whites here will stop reading this after they see the word whites. These are the same people who will read volumes of racist lies about blacks without fail. Yet as they don't they'll be more than glad to post their opinions too stupid to understand they are doing exactly what the writer says.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

Hmmm, seems that I am racist. Back before every man, woman and child had a cell-phone, if I saw someone that was black stranded on the side of the road, I would stop. I know a little something about cars...always had jumper cables, a tool kit and a mini-hydraulic lift in the trunk....if they were white, I figured that their chances were much better of getting help than someone that was black.....pretty racist of me.

When a Dallas judge declared that child free apartment complexes were unconstitutional and housing vouchers had to be given to poor black families (mostly single moms) we had some move into our condo complex....outside of a swimming pool? Not much for a kid to do. So, I bought huge sheet of plywood, put a basketball goal and net on it. I drilled holes on the corners and put in hooks in the middle of the two designated parking spaces I had. Many times I would go out there and hang with them but mostly just put up the goal when I got home from work. It would be 4:30 or so and as soon as they saw my car, they would run up to me joyously calling my name "Mr.Smith! Mr.Smith! Are ya gonna put the goal up today and can you come out and play?" Same routine every day but it never got old and always put a smile on my face. We did that for a year when all of the sudden I found a note on my door by the condo association saying that my basketball goal over my own two damn designated parking spaces was in violation and was to cease immediately. A month prior, a young white couple moved in and had the parking spots two down from mine. I immediately suspected them and accused them.....how racist of me. Turns out it was a middle-aged black lady that belonged to the condo's board that complained because she didn't like the fact that she had to wait while we got out of her way. in order to get to her parking space.

When football season rolled around, I won two tickets to a Cowboys-Raiders game complete with a helicopter ride to the stadium....just had to get to the Addison airport and they would supply the taxi ride after the game to get my car.....I choose a little black kid named Brandon. My son was too young to even know what football was and Brandon always wanted to go to a Cowboys game and I was going to take him in style. I had white male friends that would have bought me beer the entire game just for the shot of getting in and out of the stadium on a helicopter. Did I choose Brandon because he was black, had no male role model outside of me?...how racist and presumptuous of me to think that I might be the only chance he had to go to an NFL game as a kid, no?

Here is the kicker...when I dropped Brandon off, his mom gave me a hug and said "you know what I love about you? You don't see color"........but do I? Should I have been insulted for her thinking that I would? Why is race-baiting so lame? Because it's just another means to divide people and keep them bickering with each other so that we never see the ones pulling the strings. My advice to you is BE you...be what you are inside and if it's good, it will shine through and make people around you feel blessed just for knowing you. If you walk around with a chip on your shoulder expecting people to walk on egg-shells and treat you special as a pay back for something that you personally never experienced and that they were not responsible for ANY WAY? They will avoid you, your negativity and ignore that "Victimhood" badge that weighs you down like an anchor.

 

[IM2]

This section of USMB is he ultimate example of whitesplaining.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

May 17, 2017 by Maisha Z. Johnson

And unfortunately, just as frequently, I’ve had white people try to explain racism to me, a woman of color. There’s a word for this phenomenon, too –whitesplaining. It’s incredibly frustrating to share my experiences with racism, only to have a white person try to speak over me about it – and often by belittling how racism hurts me.

If you’re white, you may have whitesplained without realizing it. To understand whitesplaining, now picture yourself in the following situation.

I’m venting about my day, and I tell you I’m angry that a white neighbor told me, “I don’t even see you as Black.”

Would you reassure me that my neighbor meant well? If you do, don’t be surprised if I’m just as annoyed as you would be if a man tried to explain your experience with street harassment to you.

Usually, signs of whitesplaining include a condescending tone and a paternalistic assumption that a person of color doesn’t know enough to accurately articulate their own experience.

The term doesn’t apply to every instance when a white person talks about racism, just like mansplaining doesn’t apply to every instance when a man talks about gender oppression. But whitesplaining is a result of the power white people hold as part of the dominant culture in the US. So recognizingwhen it’s happening is one of the everyday ways you can help dismantle the oppressive system of white supremacy.

Like with other forms of privileged explaining, including mansplaining, people who whitesplain have been conditioned to believe that they’re somehow more qualified to speak about a marginalized group than a person who belongs to that group.

That’s why there’s no equivalent like “blacksplaining.” When a Black person talks about race with a white person, they don’t have the same institutional power as a white person who belongs to the dominant culture.

And that’s the problem with whitesplaining. It’s not just harmlessly discussing racism, but implicitly acting on racist ideas that say that people of color are ignorant and wrong, even about their own experiences.

You probably don’t think you’re motivated by racist ideas when you whitesplain – just like men don’t have to hate women in order to participate in everyday sexism like mansplaining.

For instance, you might think you have a perfectly good reason for telling me my neighbor didn’t mean to be racist. You’ve spent time with her, and you’ve never known her to be racist, or you can tell she meant to compliment me by saying she doesn’t see me as Black.

But while these well-meaning reasons for correcting me feel true, it’s also true that you can act on subconscious, implicit biases leading you to dismiss what I have to say because I’m Black.

If you don’t believe whitesplaining is wrong, then you’re missing how the motivation behind whitesplaining is influenced by white supremacy. So let’s unpack the most common reasons why whitesplaining happens, to examine why it’s so misguided.

I guarantee that many whites here will stop reading this after they see the word whites. These are the same people who will read volumes of racist lies about blacks without fail. Yet as they don't they'll be more than glad to post their opinions too stupid to understand they are doing exactly what the writer says.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

Hmmm, seems that I am racist. Back before every man, woman and child had a cell-phone, if I saw someone that was black stranded on the side of the road, I would stop. I know a little something about cars...always had jumper cables, a tool kit and a mini-hydraulic lift in the trunk....if they were white, I figured that their chances were much better of getting help than someone that was black.....pretty racist of me.

When a Dallas judge declared that child free apartment complexes were unconstitutional and housing vouchers had to be given to poor black families (mostly single moms) we had some move into our condo complex....outside of a swimming pool? Not much for a kid to do. So, I bought huge sheet of plywood, put a basketball goal and net on it. I drilled holes on the corners and put in hooks in the middle of the two designated parking spaces I had. Many times I would go out there and hang with them but mostly just put up the goal when I got home from work. It would be 4:30 or so and as soon as they saw my car, they would run up to me joyously calling my name "Mr.Smith! Mr.Smith! Are ya gonna put the goal up today and can you come out and play?" Same routine every day but it never got old and always put a smile on my face. We did that for a year when all of the sudden I found a note on my door by the condo association saying that my basketball goal over my own two damn designated parking spaces was in violation and was to cease immediately. A month prior, a young white couple moved in and had the parking spots two down from mine. I immediately suspected them and accused them.....how racist of me. Turns out it was a middle-aged black lady that belonged to the condo's board that complained because she didn't like the fact that she had to wait while we got out of her way. in order to get to her parking space.

When football season rolled around, I won two tickets to a Cowboys-Raiders game complete with a helicopter ride to the stadium....just had to get to the Addison airport and they would supply the taxi ride after the game to get my car.....I choose a little black kid named Brandon. My son was too young to even know what football was and Brandon always wanted to go to a Cowboys game and I was going to take him in style. I had white male friends that would have bought me beer the entire game just for the shot of getting in and out of the stadium on a helicopter. Did I choose Brandon because he was black, had no male role model outside of me?...how racist and presumptuous of me to think that I might be the only chance he had to go to an NFL game as a kid, no?

Here is the kicker...when I dropped Brandon off, his mom gave me a hug and said "you know what I love about you? You don't see color"........but do I? Should I have been insulted for her thinking that I would? Why is race-baiting so lame? Because it's just another means to divide people and keep them bickering with each other so that we never see the ones pulling the strings. My advice to you is BE you...be what you are inside and if it's good, it will shine through and make people around you feel blessed just for knowing you. If you walk around with a chip on your shoulder expecting people to walk on egg-shells and treat you special as a pay back for something that you personally never experienced and that they were not responsible for ANY WAY? They will avoid you, your negativity and ignore that "Victimhood" badge that weighs you down like an anchor.

Don't give me any advice. We are here in a race and racism discussion forum. And so what does your taking a black kid to a pro football game have to do with the damage to black communities created by 100 years of overt racist law and policy in Texas?

 

[Natural Citizen]

This section of USMB is he ultimate example of whitesplaining.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

May 17, 2017 by Maisha Z. Johnson

And unfortunately, just as frequently, I’ve had white people try to explain racism to me, a woman of color. There’s a word for this phenomenon, too –whitesplaining. It’s incredibly frustrating to share my experiences with racism, only to have a white person try to speak over me about it – and often by belittling how racism hurts me.

If you’re white, you may have whitesplained without realizing it. To understand whitesplaining, now picture yourself in the following situation.

I’m venting about my day, and I tell you I’m angry that a white neighbor told me, “I don’t even see you as Black.”

Would you reassure me that my neighbor meant well? If you do, don’t be surprised if I’m just as annoyed as you would be if a man tried to explain your experience with street harassment to you.

Usually, signs of whitesplaining include a condescending tone and a paternalistic assumption that a person of color doesn’t know enough to accurately articulate their own experience.

The term doesn’t apply to every instance when a white person talks about racism, just like mansplaining doesn’t apply to every instance when a man talks about gender oppression. But whitesplaining is a result of the power white people hold as part of the dominant culture in the US. So recognizingwhen it’s happening is one of the everyday ways you can help dismantle the oppressive system of white supremacy.

Like with other forms of privileged explaining, including mansplaining, people who whitesplain have been conditioned to believe that they’re somehow more qualified to speak about a marginalized group than a person who belongs to that group.

That’s why there’s no equivalent like “blacksplaining.” When a Black person talks about race with a white person, they don’t have the same institutional power as a white person who belongs to the dominant culture.

And that’s the problem with whitesplaining. It’s not just harmlessly discussing racism, but implicitly acting on racist ideas that say that people of color are ignorant and wrong, even about their own experiences.

You probably don’t think you’re motivated by racist ideas when you whitesplain – just like men don’t have to hate women in order to participate in everyday sexism like mansplaining.

For instance, you might think you have a perfectly good reason for telling me my neighbor didn’t mean to be racist. You’ve spent time with her, and you’ve never known her to be racist, or you can tell she meant to compliment me by saying she doesn’t see me as Black.

But while these well-meaning reasons for correcting me feel true, it’s also true that you can act on subconscious, implicit biases leading you to dismiss what I have to say because I’m Black.

If you don’t believe whitesplaining is wrong, then you’re missing how the motivation behind whitesplaining is influenced by white supremacy. So let’s unpack the most common reasons why whitesplaining happens, to examine why it’s so misguided.

I guarantee that many whites here will stop reading this after they see the word whites. These are the same people who will read volumes of racist lies about blacks without fail. Yet as they don't they'll be more than glad to post their opinions too stupid to understand they are doing exactly what the writer says.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

Racism is just a hateful form of collectivism where humans are seen as members of groups rather than Individuals. That's really all it is.

The solution is rather simple. Stop encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality. Ahem.

 

[IM2]

This section of USMB is he ultimate example of whitesplaining.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

May 17, 2017 by Maisha Z. Johnson

And unfortunately, just as frequently, I’ve had white people try to explain racism to me, a woman of color. There’s a word for this phenomenon, too –whitesplaining. It’s incredibly frustrating to share my experiences with racism, only to have a white person try to speak over me about it – and often by belittling how racism hurts me.

If you’re white, you may have whitesplained without realizing it. To understand whitesplaining, now picture yourself in the following situation.

I’m venting about my day, and I tell you I’m angry that a white neighbor told me, “I don’t even see you as Black.”

Would you reassure me that my neighbor meant well? If you do, don’t be surprised if I’m just as annoyed as you would be if a man tried to explain your experience with street harassment to you.

Usually, signs of whitesplaining include a condescending tone and a paternalistic assumption that a person of color doesn’t know enough to accurately articulate their own experience.

The term doesn’t apply to every instance when a white person talks about racism, just like mansplaining doesn’t apply to every instance when a man talks about gender oppression. But whitesplaining is a result of the power white people hold as part of the dominant culture in the US. So recognizingwhen it’s happening is one of the everyday ways you can help dismantle the oppressive system of white supremacy.

Like with other forms of privileged explaining, including mansplaining, people who whitesplain have been conditioned to believe that they’re somehow more qualified to speak about a marginalized group than a person who belongs to that group.

That’s why there’s no equivalent like “blacksplaining.” When a Black person talks about race with a white person, they don’t have the same institutional power as a white person who belongs to the dominant culture.

And that’s the problem with whitesplaining. It’s not just harmlessly discussing racism, but implicitly acting on racist ideas that say that people of color are ignorant and wrong, even about their own experiences.

You probably don’t think you’re motivated by racist ideas when you whitesplain – just like men don’t have to hate women in order to participate in everyday sexism like mansplaining.

For instance, you might think you have a perfectly good reason for telling me my neighbor didn’t mean to be racist. You’ve spent time with her, and you’ve never known her to be racist, or you can tell she meant to compliment me by saying she doesn’t see me as Black.

But while these well-meaning reasons for correcting me feel true, it’s also true that you can act on subconscious, implicit biases leading you to dismiss what I have to say because I’m Black.

If you don’t believe whitesplaining is wrong, then you’re missing how the motivation behind whitesplaining is influenced by white supremacy. So let’s unpack the most common reasons why whitesplaining happens, to examine why it’s so misguided.

I guarantee that many whites here will stop reading this after they see the word whites. These are the same people who will read volumes of racist lies about blacks without fail. Yet as they don't they'll be more than glad to post their opinions too stupid to understand they are doing exactly what the writer says.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

Racism is just a hateful form of collectivism where humans are seen as members of groups rather than Individuals. That's really all it is.

The solution is rather simple. Stop encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality. Ahem.

It's funny how those who have benefitted most from this collectivism now want claim how it needs to be stopped. Now that they control everything collectivism needs to go.

 

[Natural Citizen]

It's funny how those who have benefitted most from this collectivism now want claim how it needs to be stopped. Now that they control everything collectivism needs to go.

Nobody benefits from collectivism. At least not political collectivism.

Obsession with racial group identity is intrinsintly racist, however. Take that whatever it might be worth to you.

 

[IM2]

It's funny how those who have benefitted most from this collectivism now want claim how it needs to be stopped. Now that they control everything collectivism needs to go.

Nobody benefits from collectivism. At least not political collectivism.

Seems that whites have benefitted from every type of collectivism there is.

 

[PredFan]

Wise consistently talks to the general obliviousness of whites to the issue of race. And USMB shows that Wise is correct about the constant nature of it and the modern ability of whites to remain blind.

There is no reason for a white person to even discuss race, just as there is no reason for a man to discuss gender equality. Their opinions are not actually wanted anyway. Better to just leave it well alone.

Just like whiteplaining and mansplaining, this stupidity is just a rule made up entirely by the left. I don’t have to follow that nonsense nor is it a valid point or rule. It’s just complete bull shit made up to halt any opposing views.

You whites do this all the time. That's why the term whitesplaining exists.

Do what all the time? Debunk your racist lies?

You've debunked nothing.

Yeah, I did. Do I have to whitesplain it to you?

 

[bgrouse]

This section of USMB is he ultimate example of whitesplaining.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

May 17, 2017 by Maisha Z. Johnson

And unfortunately, just as frequently, I’ve had white people try to explain racism to me, a woman of color. There’s a word for this phenomenon, too –whitesplaining. It’s incredibly frustrating to share my experiences with racism, only to have a white person try to speak over me about it – and often by belittling how racism hurts me.

If you’re white, you may have whitesplained without realizing it. To understand whitesplaining, now picture yourself in the following situation.

I’m venting about my day, and I tell you I’m angry that a white neighbor told me, “I don’t even see you as Black.”

Would you reassure me that my neighbor meant well? If you do, don’t be surprised if I’m just as annoyed as you would be if a man tried to explain your experience with street harassment to you.

Usually, signs of whitesplaining include a condescending tone and a paternalistic assumption that a person of color doesn’t know enough to accurately articulate their own experience.

The term doesn’t apply to every instance when a white person talks about racism, just like mansplaining doesn’t apply to every instance when a man talks about gender oppression. But whitesplaining is a result of the power white people hold as part of the dominant culture in the US. So recognizingwhen it’s happening is one of the everyday ways you can help dismantle the oppressive system of white supremacy.

Like with other forms of privileged explaining, including mansplaining, people who whitesplain have been conditioned to believe that they’re somehow more qualified to speak about a marginalized group than a person who belongs to that group.

That’s why there’s no equivalent like “blacksplaining.” When a Black person talks about race with a white person, they don’t have the same institutional power as a white person who belongs to the dominant culture.

And that’s the problem with whitesplaining. It’s not just harmlessly discussing racism, but implicitly acting on racist ideas that say that people of color are ignorant and wrong, even about their own experiences.

You probably don’t think you’re motivated by racist ideas when you whitesplain – just like men don’t have to hate women in order to participate in everyday sexism like mansplaining.

For instance, you might think you have a perfectly good reason for telling me my neighbor didn’t mean to be racist. You’ve spent time with her, and you’ve never known her to be racist, or you can tell she meant to compliment me by saying she doesn’t see me as Black.

But while these well-meaning reasons for correcting me feel true, it’s also true that you can act on subconscious, implicit biases leading you to dismiss what I have to say because I’m Black.

If you don’t believe whitesplaining is wrong, then you’re missing how the motivation behind whitesplaining is influenced by white supremacy. So let’s unpack the most common reasons why whitesplaining happens, to examine why it’s so misguided.

I guarantee that many whites here will stop reading this after they see the word whites. These are the same people who will read volumes of racist lies about blacks without fail. Yet as they don't they'll be more than glad to post their opinions too stupid to understand they are doing exactly what the writer says.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

Hmmm, seems that I am racist. Back before every man, woman and child had a cell-phone, if I saw someone that was black stranded on the side of the road, I would stop. I know a little something about cars...always had jumper cables, a tool kit and a mini-hydraulic lift in the trunk....if they were white, I figured that their chances were much better of getting help than someone that was black.....pretty racist of me.

When a Dallas judge declared that child free apartment complexes were unconstitutional and housing vouchers had to be given to poor black families (mostly single moms) we had some move into our condo complex....outside of a swimming pool? Not much for a kid to do. So, I bought huge sheet of plywood, put a basketball goal and net on it. I drilled holes on the corners and put in hooks in the middle of the two designated parking spaces I had. Many times I would go out there and hang with them but mostly just put up the goal when I got home from work. It would be 4:30 or so and as soon as they saw my car, they would run up to me joyously calling my name "Mr.Smith! Mr.Smith! Are ya gonna put the goal up today and can you come out and play?" Same routine every day but it never got old and always put a smile on my face. We did that for a year when all of the sudden I found a note on my door by the condo association saying that my basketball goal over my own two damn designated parking spaces was in violation and was to cease immediately. A month prior, a young white couple moved in and had the parking spots two down from mine. I immediately suspected them and accused them.....how racist of me. Turns out it was a middle-aged black lady that belonged to the condo's board that complained because she didn't like the fact that she had to wait while we got out of her way. in order to get to her parking space.

When football season rolled around, I won two tickets to a Cowboys-Raiders game complete with a helicopter ride to the stadium....just had to get to the Addison airport and they would supply the taxi ride after the game to get my car.....I choose a little black kid named Brandon. My son was too young to even know what football was and Brandon always wanted to go to a Cowboys game and I was going to take him in style. I had white male friends that would have bought me beer the entire game just for the shot of getting in and out of the stadium on a helicopter. Did I choose Brandon because he was black, had no male role model outside of me?...how racist and presumptuous of me to think that I might be the only chance he had to go to an NFL game as a kid, no?

Here is the kicker...when I dropped Brandon off, his mom gave me a hug and said "you know what I love about you? You don't see color"........but do I? Should I have been insulted for her thinking that I would? Why is race-baiting so lame? Because it's just another means to divide people and keep them bickering with each other so that we never see the ones pulling the strings. My advice to you is BE you...be what you are inside and if it's good, it will shine through and make people around you feel blessed just for knowing you. If you walk around with a chip on your shoulder expecting people to walk on egg-shells and treat you special as a pay back for something that you personally never experienced and that they were not responsible for ANY WAY? They will avoid you, your negativity and ignore that "Victimhood" badge that weighs you down like an anchor.

Don't give me any advice. We are here in a race and racism discussion forum. And so what does your taking a black kid to a pro football game have to do with the damage to black communities created by 100 years of overt racist law and policy in Texas?

The only thing damaging black communities is the black people in them.

 

[IsaacNewton]

This section of USMB is he ultimate example of whitesplaining.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

May 17, 2017 by Maisha Z. Johnson

And unfortunately, just as frequently, I’ve had white people try to explain racism to me, a woman of color. There’s a word for this phenomenon, too –whitesplaining. It’s incredibly frustrating to share my experiences with racism, only to have a white person try to speak over me about it – and often by belittling how racism hurts me.

If you’re white, you may have whitesplained without realizing it. To understand whitesplaining, now picture yourself in the following situation.

I’m venting about my day, and I tell you I’m angry that a white neighbor told me, “I don’t even see you as Black.”

You obviously live a very pampered life if you have time to get angry about something as innocuous as this. The majority of whites deal with far greater struggles.

Just be happy our white society is giving you the opportunity to live in a modern society that your own stupid race would never be able to create on your own.

Thanks for outing yourself, to the ignore dungeon for you David Puke.

 

[bgrouse]

This section of USMB is he ultimate example of whitesplaining.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

May 17, 2017 by Maisha Z. Johnson

And unfortunately, just as frequently, I’ve had white people try to explain racism to me, a woman of color. There’s a word for this phenomenon, too –whitesplaining. It’s incredibly frustrating to share my experiences with racism, only to have a white person try to speak over me about it – and often by belittling how racism hurts me.

If you’re white, you may have whitesplained without realizing it. To understand whitesplaining, now picture yourself in the following situation.

I’m venting about my day, and I tell you I’m angry that a white neighbor told me, “I don’t even see you as Black.”

You obviously live a very pampered life if you have time to get angry about something as innocuous as this. The majority of whites deal with far greater struggles.

Just be happy our white society is giving you the opportunity to live in a modern society that your own stupid race would never be able to create on your own.

Thanks for outing yourself, to the ignore dungeon for you David Puke.

Dumb liberal clowns don't like the truth, so they ignore.

See above!

 

[IM2]

There is no reason for a white person to even discuss race, just as there is no reason for a man to discuss gender equality. Their opinions are not actually wanted anyway. Better to just leave it well alone.

Just like whiteplaining and mansplaining, this stupidity is just a rule made up entirely by the left. I don’t have to follow that nonsense nor is it a valid point or rule. It’s just complete bull shit made up to halt any opposing views.

You whites do this all the time. That's why the term whitesplaining exists.

Do what all the time? Debunk your racist lies?

You've debunked nothing.

Yeah, I did. Do I have to whitesplain it to you?

You've debunked nothing and no amount of any splaining you do changes that fact..

 

[MizMolly]

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

1. You Think I’ve Got a Fact Wrong (‘Actually…’)

Because of white supremacy, many white people – especially white men, who are also influenced by patriarchy – have been conditioned to speak over other people and dominate spaces.

And then you might do one of the most irritating forms of whitesplaining – assuming a person of color just doesn’t understand what’s going on.

I’ve experienced this too many times when white folks believe they know more about what I’ve been through than I do – through secondhand information or just their own wild guesses.

Talking with me about issues that affect my community means you have limits – you don’t have a lifetime of firsthand experience.

2. You Think My Feelings Are Wrong (‘Be Objective, It’s Not That Bad…’)

I’m upset, you’re confused, and the difference between our reactions isn’t just a matter of my being “oversensitive.” It’s a matter of privilege: You can learn about racism through secondhand sources, while I’ve directly experienced racism my entire life.

So it’s not up to you to decide what I should be offended by.

The truth is that you’re just as biased as anyone else – your perspective is influenced by your own experiences and position of privilege. That also gives you a biased point of view on what “objectivity” means.

3. You’re Concerned About My Approach (‘I Think What You Mean Is…’)

Whitesplainers are supposedly full of concern when they say I’d be better off, or a better advocate for racial justice, if I just said or did things differently.

For instance, have you ever felt the need to point out that a person of color was “generalizing” white people when they talked about racism?

If I say, “White people talk over me,” you might jump in with: “Not all white people. More people would listen to you if you didn’t generalize.”

Except there’s actually a problem with rushing to say that “not all white people” are part of the problem of white supremacy.

If I focused on reassuring every white person that they’re not personally responsible, then nobody would get the chance to examine how they might contribute .

Your attempt to make sure I get the right message across may come from a good place. But the thing is – and do forgive me if this comes across as “generalizing” – people who whitesplain so often get things wrong, or at the very least, they miss the point.

4. You Think You or Someone Else Is Being Falsely Accused (‘But I’m Not a Racist!’)

Speaking of derailments – when I’m talking about a racist act, I don’t have much interest in whether or not the person responsible is “a racist.”

When it comes to things like holding implicit biases and benefiting from white privilege, the question of whether or not someone is intentionally bigoted is completely irrelevant.

If you’re called out for racism and you take it as a personal attack on your character, you’re making the situation all about you – not the bigger picture of how all of us can take responsibility for our own role in white supremacy.

5. You Heard Another Person of Color Say Something Different (‘That’s Not What I Heard…’)

Listening to people of color is a great way to learn about racism. But please don’t just carry our quotes around like weapons to use against other marginalized folks.

Too many white people use this tactic to tell us that we’re wrong about racism – citing the Native friend who doesn’t mind cultural appropriation, or the Black celebrity who disagrees with Black Lives Matter protesters.

Or people like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, etc.

For one thing, Black people are not a monolith. We’re allowed to disagree. And your whiteness doesn’t grant you the authority to determine which one of us is right.

6. You Want Me to Stop Talking About Racism (‘You’re Being So Divisive’)

Let’s face it – there are several excuses for whitesplaining, from hurt feelings to so-called “concern,” but many people who whitesplain do it simply because they don’t want me to talk about race.

“You’re being divisive.” “We should be uniting.” “There’s no such thing as race – we’re all human!”

Whitesplaining is particularly dangerous when it’s used to shut down conversation and action against racism.

How ironic, you think your blackness allows you to think you are always right.

 

[MizMolly]

Over 50% of the population has spent the greater part of human existence under the domination of men. Not too many lesser problems will be resolved before that is.

No excuses.

Get in line.

Your oppression is not more valid or important than mine, not to me or most women.

It is when white women played into the racism. Ask Emmitt Till. So then you step back.

White Women and Racial Complicity

To be a white woman in America is to be precariously power-adjacent: Because of our skin, we carry unquestioned privilege in power systems. Because of our gender, that security has a shelf life—we are included only as long as we are able or willing to perform according to those who control the levers.

It’s a dangerous charade, one so deeply internalized it often goes unexamined. Our history indicates that when white women want agency, we often go to white men—even when they are the source of our exclusion, or even if we have to sell out others along the way. In the wake of the 15th Amendment granting black men the right to vote, suffragists including Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Laura Clay made their case for the white woman vote by appealing to white supremacy. In January, a new book revealed that Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who accused Emmett Till of touching her in 1955, had lied.

White women in America face a deficit of trust uniquely of our own making.

White Women and Racial Complicity

A Short History of White Women’s Complicity
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

In Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, historian Elizabeth Gillespie McRae makes a strong argument for white women’s vital role in protecting and perpetuating white supremacy and thwarting integration in the US. One hundred years ago, woman began to organize in ways that we would recognize from today’s resistance movements. They developed grassroots campaigns reaching out to other women and encouraging them to organize, to write letters, to publish, to speak up and to vote. They did this, however, in the name of Jim Crow, as a way to shore up white power in the face of legislation that would dismantle it. McRae demonstrates how white women, not just in the South but across the nation, turned their traditional roles as mothers, defenders of family and children, tellers of stories, and activists in schools into a political force that sustained racism, reshaped American conservatism, and continues to influence our politics and culture.

McRae’s goal is to demonstrate that the “fiercest proponents” of massive resistance to desegregation and racial integration in 20th century America were “…the daily grassroots activists who continually reshaped their support for various versions of racial segregation.” These diehard activists were largely white women who used their special roles in social welfare, public education, electoral politics and popular culture to keep the spirit of Jim Crow alive even when its legal basis had been removed by the Supreme Court and the federal government. She divides the book into two parts and a conclusion. Part I is entitled “Massive Support for Racial Segregation, 1920-1941”, Part II is “Massive Resistance to the Black Freedom Struggle, 1942-1974,” and the conclusion is “The New National Face of Segregation: Boston Women Against Busing.”

A Short History of White Women’s Complicity

Check yourself woman. White women owned slaves, white women participated in Jim Crow nationwide. White women lied about black men and they were killed by those who you say oppressed you. You married your oppressors and when he died, you inherited your oppressors money/property if he had any. You married your oppressor and if you got divorced, you got half of what your oppressor had. So step back trying to come me like that lady. Humble yourself and know your history.

Because this is part of it.

Emmett Till's Accuser: I Made It Up

What that woman did was horrendous. She is not the representative of all white women.

 

[MizMolly]

This section of USMB is he ultimate example of whitesplaining.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

May 17, 2017 by Maisha Z. Johnson

And unfortunately, just as frequently, I’ve had white people try to explain racism to me, a woman of color. There’s a word for this phenomenon, too –whitesplaining. It’s incredibly frustrating to share my experiences with racism, only to have a white person try to speak over me about it – and often by belittling how racism hurts me.

If you’re white, you may have whitesplained without realizing it. To understand whitesplaining, now picture yourself in the following situation.

I’m venting about my day, and I tell you I’m angry that a white neighbor told me, “I don’t even see you as Black.”

Would you reassure me that my neighbor meant well? If you do, don’t be surprised if I’m just as annoyed as you would be if a man tried to explain your experience with street harassment to you.

Usually, signs of whitesplaining include a condescending tone and a paternalistic assumption that a person of color doesn’t know enough to accurately articulate their own experience.

The term doesn’t apply to every instance when a white person talks about racism, just like mansplaining doesn’t apply to every instance when a man talks about gender oppression. But whitesplaining is a result of the power white people hold as part of the dominant culture in the US. So recognizingwhen it’s happening is one of the everyday ways you can help dismantle the oppressive system of white supremacy.

Like with other forms of privileged explaining, including mansplaining, people who whitesplain have been conditioned to believe that they’re somehow more qualified to speak about a marginalized group than a person who belongs to that group.

That’s why there’s no equivalent like “blacksplaining.” When a Black person talks about race with a white person, they don’t have the same institutional power as a white person who belongs to the dominant culture.

And that’s the problem with whitesplaining. It’s not just harmlessly discussing racism, but implicitly acting on racist ideas that say that people of color are ignorant and wrong, even about their own experiences.

You probably don’t think you’re motivated by racist ideas when you whitesplain – just like men don’t have to hate women in order to participate in everyday sexism like mansplaining.

For instance, you might think you have a perfectly good reason for telling me my neighbor didn’t mean to be racist. You’ve spent time with her, and you’ve never known her to be racist, or you can tell she meant to compliment me by saying she doesn’t see me as Black.

But while these well-meaning reasons for correcting me feel true, it’s also true that you can act on subconscious, implicit biases leading you to dismiss what I have to say because I’m Black.

If you don’t believe whitesplaining is wrong, then you’re missing how the motivation behind whitesplaining is influenced by white supremacy. So let’s unpack the most common reasons why whitesplaining happens, to examine why it’s so misguided.

I guarantee that many whites here will stop reading this after they see the word whites. These are the same people who will read volumes of racist lies about blacks without fail. Yet as they don't they'll be more than glad to post their opinions too stupid to understand they are doing exactly what the writer says.

6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)

Hmmm, seems that I am racist. Back before every man, woman and child had a cell-phone, if I saw someone that was black stranded on the side of the road, I would stop. I know a little something about cars...always had jumper cables, a tool kit and a mini-hydraulic lift in the trunk....if they were white, I figured that their chances were much better of getting help than someone that was black.....pretty racist of me.

When a Dallas judge declared that child free apartment complexes were unconstitutional and housing vouchers had to be given to poor black families (mostly single moms) we had some move into our condo complex....outside of a swimming pool? Not much for a kid to do. So, I bought huge sheet of plywood, put a basketball goal and net on it. I drilled holes on the corners and put in hooks in the middle of the two designated parking spaces I had. Many times I would go out there and hang with them but mostly just put up the goal when I got home from work. It would be 4:30 or so and as soon as they saw my car, they would run up to me joyously calling my name "Mr.Smith! Mr.Smith! Are ya gonna put the goal up today and can you come out and play?" Same routine every day but it never got old and always put a smile on my face. We did that for a year when all of the sudden I found a note on my door by the condo association saying that my basketball goal over my own two damn designated parking spaces was in violation and was to cease immediately. A month prior, a young white couple moved in and had the parking spots two down from mine. I immediately suspected them and accused them.....how racist of me. Turns out it was a middle-aged black lady that belonged to the condo's board that complained because she didn't like the fact that she had to wait while we got out of her way. in order to get to her parking space.

When football season rolled around, I won two tickets to a Cowboys-Raiders game complete with a helicopter ride to the stadium....just had to get to the Addison airport and they would supply the taxi ride after the game to get my car.....I choose a little black kid named Brandon. My son was too young to even know what football was and Brandon always wanted to go to a Cowboys game and I was going to take him in style. I had white male friends that would have bought me beer the entire game just for the shot of getting in and out of the stadium on a helicopter. Did I choose Brandon because he was black, had no male role model outside of me?...how racist and presumptuous of me to think that I might be the only chance he had to go to an NFL game as a kid, no?

Here is the kicker...when I dropped Brandon off, his mom gave me a hug and said "you know what I love about you? You don't see color"........but do I? Should I have been insulted for her thinking that I would? Why is race-baiting so lame? Because it's just another means to divide people and keep them bickering with each other so that we never see the ones pulling the strings. My advice to you is BE you...be what you are inside and if it's good, it will shine through and make people around you feel blessed just for knowing you. If you walk around with a chip on your shoulder expecting people to walk on egg-shells and treat you special as a pay back for something that you personally never experienced and that they were not responsible for ANY WAY? They will avoid you, your negativity and ignore that "Victimhood" badge that weighs you down like an anchor.

Don't give me any advice. We are here in a race and racism discussion forum. And so what does your taking a black kid to a pro football game have to do with the damage to black communities created by 100 years of overt racist law and policy in Texas?

Someone white discussing race, showing not all white people are racist or see color, and all you can do is reply negatively?

 

[there4eyeM]

[/QUOTE]You whites do this all the time. That's why the term whitesplaining exists.[/QUOTE]

This is a racist statement. No one can honestly deny it. Do so at the risk to your credibility.

Some of us are sickened to our stomachs that so many of our fellow beings are so afflicted by the stupidity of bigotry and racism. Personally, I remember when, very young in the state I was born and raised, seeing not only separate water fountains and toilets for "Negroes" or "Non-whites", as the terms were then, but a rope across the beach to divide 'whites' from 'blacks'. My parents were certainly not 'liberals, and not highly educated. I can't remember any comments from them, when I was that age, about race at all. But, I very clearly remember that little boy, maybe six years old, looking at that division and just feeling deep down inside that it was wrong, sick. No one told me to feel that way. I didn't think I was 'superior' for feeling that way. In fact, there was nothing positive in the emotion. At that age, I had nowhere to put, no capacity to deal with what I was seeing and feeling. It was all bad.
Every culture throughout history has, sooner or later, done to at least one other group what has been done to "black" people in America. It has been done to "black" people almost all over the world. I have never seen anything to adequately explain this phenomenon, but it is certainly not the exclusive practice of "whites". Racial discrimination is ignorance first because it ignores that there is only one race. It is stupid because it is counter productive to our highest nature. It is an insult to call a person racist. It is not a positive attribute.
When you use the same speech that you accuse 'racists' of using, you cannot escape having the term fly back in your face.
This is a very polite way of telling the above quoted poster that he is lying to us and himself. If anyone is fooled, it is not we.

 

[PredFan]

Just like whiteplaining and mansplaining, this stupidity is just a rule made up entirely by the left. I don’t have to follow that nonsense nor is it a valid point or rule. It’s just complete bull shit made up to halt any opposing views.

You whites do this all the time. That's why the term whitesplaining exists.

Do what all the time? Debunk your racist lies?

You've debunked nothing.

Yeah, I did. Do I have to whitesplain it to you?

You've debunked nothing and no amount of any splaining you do changes that fact..

That is what you liberals do. You make shit up. that's why reality never ever agrees with you. I quite clearly and effectively debunked your racist stupidity. Your lies can't change that fact.

 

[IM2]

You whites do this all the time. That's why the term whitesplaining exists.

This is a racist statement. No one can honestly deny it. Do so at the risk to your credibility.

Some of us are sickened to our stomachs that so many of our fellow beings are so afflicted by the stupidity of bigotry and racism. Personally, I remember when, very young in the state I was born and raised, seeing not only separate water fountains and toilets for "Negroes" or "Non-whites", as the terms were then, but a rope across the beach to divide 'whites' from 'blacks'. My parents were certainly not 'liberals, and not highly educated. I can't remember any comments from them, when I was that age, about race at all. But, I very clearly remember that little boy, maybe six years old, looking at that division and just feeling deep down inside that it was wrong, sick. No one told me to feel that way. I didn't think I was 'superior' for feeling that way. In fact, there was nothing positive in the emotion. At that age, I had nowhere to put, no capacity to deal with what I was seeing and feeling. It was all bad.
Every culture throughout history has, sooner or later, done to at least one other group what has been done to "black" people in America. It has been done to "black" people almost all over the world. I have never seen anything to adequately explain this phenomenon, but it is certainly not the exclusive practice of "whites". Racial discrimination is ignorance first because it ignores that there is only one race. It is stupid because it is counter productive to our highest nature. It is an insult to call a person racist. It is not a positive attribute.
When you use the same speech that you accuse 'racists' of using, you cannot escape having the term fly back in your face.
This is a very polite way of telling the above quoted poster that he is lying to us and himself. If anyone is fooled, it is not we.

This is a sad excuse and that's all it is. Every culture has had murder too but no one excuses that. So you are fooled.

And the quote is not racist. You just whitesplained in this post.

 

[IM2]

You whites do this all the time. That's why the term whitesplaining exists.

Do what all the time? Debunk your racist lies?

You've debunked nothing.

Yeah, I did. Do I have to whitesplain it to you?

You've debunked nothing and no amount of any splaining you do changes that fact..

That is what you liberals do. You make shit up. that's why reality never ever agrees with you. I quite clearly and effectively debunked your racist stupidity. Your lies can't change that fact.

You've debunked nothing. Because you can't.

 

[there4eyeM]

You whites do this all the time. That's why the term whitesplaining exists.

This is a racist statement. No one can honestly deny it. Do so at the risk to your credibility.

Some of us are sickened to our stomachs that so many of our fellow beings are so afflicted by the stupidity of bigotry and racism. Personally, I remember when, very young in the state I was born and raised, seeing not only separate water fountains and toilets for "Negroes" or "Non-whites", as the terms were then, but a rope across the beach to divide 'whites' from 'blacks'. My parents were certainly not 'liberals, and not highly educated. I can't remember any comments from them, when I was that age, about race at all. But, I very clearly remember that little boy, maybe six years old, looking at that division and just feeling deep down inside that it was wrong, sick. No one told me to feel that way. I didn't think I was 'superior' for feeling that way. In fact, there was nothing positive in the emotion. At that age, I had nowhere to put, no capacity to deal with what I was seeing and feeling. It was all bad.
Every culture throughout history has, sooner or later, done to at least one other group what has been done to "black" people in America. It has been done to "black" people almost all over the world. I have never seen anything to adequately explain this phenomenon, but it is certainly not the exclusive practice of "whites". Racial discrimination is ignorance first because it ignores that there is only one race. It is stupid because it is counter productive to our highest nature. It is an insult to call a person racist. It is not a positive attribute.
When you use the same speech that you accuse 'racists' of using, you cannot escape having the term fly back in your face.
This is a very polite way of telling the above quoted poster that he is lying to us and himself. If anyone is fooled, it is not we.

This is a sad excuse and that's all it is. Every culture has had murder too but no one excuses that. So you are fooled.

And the quote is not racist. You just whitesplained in this post.

Are you 'English language challenged', or simply obtuse? The quoted post was a statement, no excuses were made. When you make, or anyone makes, categorical negative statements about a race you have identified, you are being racist. What's your excuse?