When will the Right Understand that WHITE is a Race?

[tahuyaman]

not "black" either It's NEGROID ----and then there is MONGOLIAN. Our "black" vice president ---is being called BLACK----
but only because her dad is JAMAICAN making him a likely mix of mongolian (native american) and Black import from africa and
white conquistador---her mom from MYSORE---therefore she has ALL THREE

White and black are colors, not races.

 

[irosie91]

White and black are colors, not races.

Correct !!!! the common terminology is----
common and incorrect. People are not "white, black, yellow or red" Race delineations ---were described by anthropologists based on a plethora of physical characteristics----the skin color being
not particularly important----just easier for the
"common" mind

 

[DukeU]

Yeah people are just people when it's a criticism of whites. But your punk ass doesn't say this when threads are made about blacks doing things. So STFU with that whining and begin doing your part to fix the damage whites did by creating racism in America.

Would my part include starting organizations and groups that segregate based on race?

32 Black Professional Organizations and Associations​

Industry-specific associations​

Technology and design​

All Star Code
“My aim is for All Star Code to be an organization that gives young, intelligent, driven men of color access to this exciting and dynamic field rooted in black excellence. With the right skills and support system behind them, and just knowing that their success is possible, there is no limit to what our young men can do — my father proved it.”
Black Data Processing Associates
“For more than 40 years, BDPA has enabled the upward mobility of African Americans and other minorities in the Information Technology (IT) and STEM fields. Through its 30+ local community chapters in major cities across the United States, BDPA has been at the forefront of promoting the minority agenda within the IT profession since 1975.”
Black Girls Code
“Black Girls CODE is devoted to showing the world that black girls can code, and do so much more. By reaching out to the community through workshops and after school programs, Black Girls CODE introduces computer coding lessons to young girls from underrepresented communities in programming languages such as Scratch or Ruby on Rails. Black Girls CODE has set out to prove to the world that girls of every color have the skills to become the programmers of tomorrow. By promoting classes and programs we hope to grow the number of women of color working in technology and give underprivileged girls a chance to become the masters of their technological worlds.”
Code2040
“Our mission is to activate, connect, and mobilize the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black and Latinx people in the innovation economy.”
/dev/color
“In 2015, a small group of Black engineers came together to start /dev/color. There were just eleven of us at the first meeting at a restaurant in San Francisco, but we all shared a common vision: to build a community of Black software engineers who helped one another reach ambitious career goals. Since then we’ve helped one another find new jobs, learn new technologies, start companies, and create a sense of belonging in Silicon Valley.”
Black Women Talk Tech
“The roadmap to billions wasn’t designed for us, so we created our own. Now, we’re building community and profitable, scalable businesses for self-identified Black women in tech, together. Black Women Talk Tech is a collective of black women tech founders who have a unique understanding of the challenges we face and the advantages we bring in the industry. We’re here to identify, support and encourage black women to build the next billion dollar business.”
National Society of Black Engineers
“With more than 500 chapters and nearly 16,000 active members in the U.S. and abroad, the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is one of the largest student-governed organizations based in the United States. NSBE, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1975, supports and promotes the aspirations of collegiate and pre-collegiate students and technical professionals in engineering and technology.”
Organization of Black Designers
“OBD is a national professional organization of interior, industrial, architectural, fashion and graphic designers dedicated to promoting the visibility, empowerment, education and interaction of its membership and the understanding and value that diverse design perspectives contribute to world culture and commerce.”

Business​

National Association of Black Accountants
“The National Association of Black Accountants (NABA, Inc.), is a nonprofit membership association dedicated to bridging the opportunity gap for black professionals in the accounting, finance and related business professions. Representing more than 200,000 black professionals in these fields, NABA advances people, careers, and the mission by providing education, resources, and meaningful career connections to both professional and student members, fulfilling the principle of our motto: Lifting As We Climb.”
National Association of Black Administrative Professionals
“The mission of the National Association of Black Administrative Professionals is to build, elevate, and excel the experiences of Black administrative professionals by supporting their career development through programming and collaboration.”
National Economic Association
“The National Economic Association (NEA) was founded in 1969 as the Caucus of Black Economists to promote the professional lives of minorities within the profession. In addition to continuing its founding mission, the organization is particularly interested in producing and distributing knowledge of economic issues that are of exceptional interest to promoting economic growth among native and immigrant African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.”
National Sales Network
“National Sales Network (NSN) is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit membership organization whose objective is to meet the professional and developmental needs of sales and sales management professionals and individuals who want to improve their professional sales skills.”

Healthcare​

National Black Nurses Association
“THE NATIONAL BLACK NURSES ASSOCIATION, INC. was organized in 1971 under the leadership of Dr. Lauranne Sams, former Dean and Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama. NBNA represents approximately 200,000 African American nurses from the USA, Canada, Eastern Caribbean and Africa, with 115 chartered chapters nationwide. NBNA mission is to provide a forum for collective action by African American nurses to represent and provide a forum for black nurses to advocate for and implement strategies to ensure access to the highest quality of healthcare for persons of color.”
National Dental Hygienists’ Association
“In 1932, the National Dental Hygienists’ Association (NDHA) was founded by African American Dental Hygienists’ to address the special problems faced by the minority hygienist in the profession as well as unite the limited number of minority dental hygiene practitioners in the United States.”
National Medical Association
“The National Medical Association (NMA) is the collective voice of African American physicians and the leading force for parity and justice in medicine and the elimination of disparities in health. The National Medical Association (NMA) is the largest and oldest national organization representing African American physicians and their patients in the United States.”
National Organization of Blacks in Dietetics and Nutrition
“A professional organization of nearly 600 African American dietetic and nutrition practitioners as well as members of other ethnic backgrounds committed to our mission. We have served members for over 50 years as a networking group. In 2008, NOBIDAN became the fourth Member Interest Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.”
Association of Black Women Physicians
“The Association of Black Women Physicians is an organized network of African-American women physicians committed to the improvement of public health and welfare, through the advancement of knowledge concerning women and the community health. We are a nonprofit organization, serving as a philanthropic source of funds to projects committed to improving the health and wellness concerns of traditionally under-served communities and assisting in eliminating health disparities. We also endeavor to enhance the personal and professional quality of life for present and future African-American women physicians.”
National Association for Black Veterinarians
“The NABV state and local chapters will operate for educational purposes by promoting the NABV’s mission to provide a medium for blacks in veterinary medicine to engage with faculty, staff, and students through professional, social, academic and cultural activities for the purpose of building lasting relationships, instilling pride, and fostering diversity as an integral part of the veterinary medicine agenda by promoting the participation of people in the communities and supporting and further promoting the improved relations among diverse peoples throughout the nation and beyond.”

Education​

National Alliance of Black School Educators
“Founded in 1970, NABSE is dedicated to improving both the educational experiences and accomplishments of African American youth through the development and use of instructional and motivational methods that increase levels of inspiration, attendance and overall achievement.”
National Association of Black Male Educators
“NABME’s mission is to increase the number of responsible black male educators who succeed at professionally and positively impacting their communities. The organization provides a wide range of services to include: developing high school and undergraduate student interest and awareness in the field of education, training and building the capacity of black and minority male educators, influence and contribute to the policies of education, promote the professional advancement of black and minority male educators”

Cosmetology and barbering​

Black Beauty Association
“The Black Beauty Association (BBA) promotes the businesses of Beauty Professionals which includes but aren’t limited to established cosmetologists, estheticians, nail technicians, massage therapists, barbers, make-up artists, photographers, models, fashion stylists, fashion designers, product manufactures, distributors and beauty show producers. BBA is dedicated to meeting the professional needs of black beauty professionals, licensed beauty professionals, and beauty industry students.”
Black Owned Beauty Supply Association
“The BOBSA Organization was established in 2003 for the purpose of empowering the African American beauty and barber community in order to establish sustained economic development in the black hair care and cosmetics sector.”
Professional Black Barbers Association
“To create and disseminate knowledge to the Barbering and Cosmetology trade through an on-line forum of research tools, artistic expression and networking events. To help promote the “Black Health Awareness Initiative” programs into the communities we serve by our value of commitment to quality, ethical behavior to society, and respect for one another while fostering the advantages provided by a relatively large community of diverse clientele. To remain open to the exchange of ideas where discovery, creativity, personal and professional development can flourish.”

Culinary​

Black Culinarian Alliance
“BCAGlobal empowers people of color across diverse cultures through education, training and mentoring within a mindfulness approach to food, coupled with practical skills in the hospitality & culinary industries, leading to meaningful connections that further a vision of a beloved community.”

100 Black Men of America
“The mission of the 100 Black Men of America, Inc. is to improve the quality of life within our communities and enhance educational and economic opportunities for all African Americans.”

Black Career Network
Network for the Black community to find and post available jobs, as well as to attend career events.

Black Career Women Network
“Our purpose is to bridge the gap of support for professional development and mentor access by providing curated tools, resources, content, and a strong network for women to strategically manage their careers, navigate the workplace, and thrive professionally.”

Black Female Founders
“Our mission is to provide awareness, promotion, support and resources for Black women led tech-based* and tech-enabled* startups throughout the U.S. and Black Diaspora.”

Black Founders
“Black Founders was started in 2011 as an organization that would empower entrepreneurs and provide founders with access to advice, mentorship, and funding. The Black Founders mission is to increase the number of successful black entrepreneurs in technology. Our goal is to create an ecosystem that stimulates tech entrepreneurship and fosters economic growth in the community. Our vision for Black Founders is to develop global programs that equip entrepreneurs, inspire innovation, and allow us to share resources and knowledge.”

The Hidden Genius Project
“The Hidden Genius Project was founded in 2012 by five black male entrepreneurs/technologists who were unnerved by the dramatic juxtaposition between the high unemployment of black male youth and the plethora of career opportunities within the local technology sector. To address this challenge, the founders established a program to connect young black males with the skills, mentors, and experiences that they need to become high-performing entrepreneurs and technologists in a 21st century, global economy.”

National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
“The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc., founded in 1935, is an organization of African American women that are business owners, certified, licensed and degreed professionals. Since our inception, we’ve built a rich history of promoting and protecting the interest of progressive women in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Technology and Service (L.E.T.S.) in areas of Health, Education, Employment and Economic Development (H.E.E.D.)”

National Coalition of 100 Black Women
“The National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW) was launched on October 24, 1981, with representatives from 14 states and the District of Columbia, and selected Jewell Jackson McCabe as its first national president. Its mission is to advocate on behalf of women of color through national and local actions and strategic alliances that promote the NCBW agenda on leadership development and gender equity in the areas of health, education and economic empowerment. The rapidity by which the organization grew is attested to by the statistics of 1986: 47 chapters in 19 states.”

National Black Business Council, Inc
“The National Black Business Council is a 501 (c)(6) non profit organization dedicated to the creation and advancement of African American and minority owned businesses. Our mission is to create and support programs that will close the economic and digital divides between minority and majority businesses. The Council accomplishes its mission through the strategic partnerships with Fortune 1000 companies which provide member businesses with procurement opportunities and access to capital. Representing a powerful community of entrepreneurs, the Council works closely with state and federal legislators on issues of concern to black businesses.”



I know, how about a white TV channel.

We'll call it the W.E.T. network.

 

[Obiwan]

Try discusing ways that whites on the right can erase the racism that dominates their ideology.

How about telling us what the solution to YOUR racism is.

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

Bulshit. White never lifted themselves up by any bootstraps. And you can stop talking about the 1860 Democratic Party. Cities must abide by state and federal policy, so don't try blaming democratic mayors for what is caused by state and federal policy.

The republican base is racist. Whites have been given all kinds of federal financial assistance. Whites have done nothing on their own. Asians come into this country on H1B Visas with tech jobs guaranteed. That's a race based preference and right wing whites don't bitch. So you can stop lying about what Republicans have done. The poorest states in America are run by Repubicans. The last two republican presidents fucked up the country economically. In fact, trickle down economics starting with Reagan is why we have such great deficits today.

What we have at top leadership today are a bunch of people who were chidren in the 40-50's and did not see how much help the government was giving their parents so they grew up believing their parents made it only because they worked hard. Not because they were given government guarateed loans for homes, government money to go to college or start a business, or that they were hired by the government to maintain the public works projects the government created during the 30-50's that created millions of permanent jobs.

All things blacks were excluded from.

So tell that right wing white mumbo jumbo to someone else.

Most whites have lifted themselves up by their own bootstraps. My "white" ancestors were all a lot of dirt poor farmers in North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin and had migrated here from the famine period of Ireland. No one lifted them out of anything Nd millions of whites can say the same thing. Most of the ultra-rich corporate types are leftist democrats. Complain to them.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

 

[AZrailwhale]

Why is this in politics?

Because the racism forum finally got shitcanned and IM2 has to crawl out from under his protected rock. However he still rants the same racist lies and propaganda.

 

[Delldude]

Yoiu care because you run your mouth about others as if whites are not a race. You repeating that I am a racist doesn't make me one.

I SEE WHITE PEOPLE

 

[BrokeLoser]

No, now it's comprised mainly of Crackers, the sort who spent their life keeping Blacks down.

“Keeping Blacks down”-
Translation:
Forcing ShaQuita to have fo baby daddys by 23
Forcing DaShawn to have fo baby mommas by 23
Forcing Blacks to drop out of school
Forcing Blacks to spend their days smoking weed and running baby factories

One has only to look at their actions in suppressing the vote for instance, classic repressive behaviour.

“Suppressing the vote”
Translation:
Asking the uncivilized / primitive to present iD.

 

[Kondor3]

How is it that members here on the right only think things are about race when blacks talk about it?

When they complained about CRT wasn't that whites making an issue of race? Wasn't that white racist demagoguery? And what about Trumps rise? He rose using white grievance that started during Reagan. White grievance is all about race. How many untalented, uneducated whites have become wealthy and famous by pushing white grievance? Why isn't that considered a race hustle? Why isn't white grievance called an industry? Why aren't the whites whining about how hard it is to be white dissed as having a victim mentality? Why aren't whites in this grievance industry told how they are using race as a crutch to cover for their personal failings? Why didn't whites on the right consider Trump picking 3 white justices as picking justices only because of race? There were black conservative justices with better qualifications than Gorsuch, Kavanaugh or Coney -Barrett. And why wasn't Coney Barrett considerd a DEI choice because Trump was told he had to pick a woman?

White people have a race — but everyone flips out when we talk about it​

As far as Lee Bebout was concerned, his Arizona State University course, US Race Theory and the Problem of Whiteness, was off to a good start. A multiracial, politically diverse group of undergraduates was enrolled. He’d prepared a syllabus and was ready to lead them in seminar-style discussions, assigning basic readings and weekly papers on the history of race in America and other topics.

But the class had met exactly once in the beginning of the 2015 spring semester, when news of it — or its title, at least — spread past campus. Bebout was at lunch with his wife in January when a producer for a conservative radio show reached out to book an interview about the course. Next, Fox News wanted to talk.

"I thought, ‘Oh god, this might not be a good thing,'" Bebout, who tends to talk about the controversy in bemused understatements, remembers.

Then came the hate mail. Lots of it. More than one message commanded the 38-year-old professor, who is white, to "go live in Africa." The outrage reached a fever pitch that transcended the everyday internet trolling that goes hand in hand with just about any news that relates to race.

"Things got obviously weird," he says, "when white supremacist groups came to my neighborhood."

It was more than weird — it was scary. He received death threats. All for daring to talk about whiteness.

The people campaigning against the course were incensed at what they understood to be an entire semester dedicated to slamming white people. But the Problem of Whiteness wasn't designed to convince students that white people are a problem. The negative language in the course's title was simply a nod to how tough it can be to talk (or even think) about what it means to be white, when white is so deeply etched in the minds of many Americans as a synonym for "raceless" or "neutral." The reaction to the course seemed to prove this thesis.

Bebout, then an assistant professor of English (the school stood behind him, and he's since received tenure and is a full professor) had previously taught courses like Transborder Chicano Literature and American Ethnic Literature. He says he created the Problem of Whiteness for practical reasons: "I can study Chicano studies, I can do critical race theory to some degree, but without understanding whiteness, it felt like there was this big gap that I wasn't able to understand in the field."

In other words, you really have to understand the idea of whiteness to even begin to talk about race in America. As Columbia University historian Barbara J. Fields told the producers of PBS's series Race: The Power of An Illusion, it was self-identified white Americans of European descent who "invented race during the era of the American Revolution as a way of resolving the contradiction between a natural right to freedom and the fact of slavery." Slavery is over, but whiteness remains the identity against which ethnic groups are compared and the identity that racism protects.

"You really have to understand the idea of whiteness to even begin to talk about race in America"

White people have a race — but everyone flips out when we talk about it

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money...

www.vox.com

"it was self-identified white Americans of European descent who invented race during the era of the American Revolution as a way of resolving the contradiction between a natural right to freedom and the fact of slavery."

Whites invented race in this country. Therefore whites are responsible for the problems caused by what they created. This means that riht wing whites need to stop asking everybody else how they can fix the problem. All whites must take steps to eliminate the problem they created. Not just some while others sit on their asses criticizing those who try making an effort to end racism. This is not about who owed slaves during the Jurassic era or what Africans did; and don't try that tired lie about Anthony Johnson or how some blacks owned slaves too. Stop lying about how it's all in the past, because this forum shows that it is not. Take some of that responsibiity you tell everybody else to take and do your part.

Uhhhhh.... waiter... I'll have an order of White Privilege... and screw the rest...

 

[CDN1]

If White people were voting +90% for one party and organizing exclusively in their own group interests while committing interracial violence against Black Americans at identical disproportional rates we see today... maybe you'd have a case.

 

[irosie91]

If White people were voting +90% for one party and organizing exclusively in their own group interests while committing interracial violence against Black Americans at identical disproportional rates we see today... maybe you'd have a case.

Is that what they mean by PROPORTIONAL
RESPONSE ?

 

[DGS49]

The cultural definition of "race" has changed quite a bit over the past 100 years.

Most conspicuous was when Hitler and other Fascists spoke of the Hebrew Race, and Aryan Race, and so on. Jews were never a race, and Aryans were (are) just Caucasians. In school I was taught that there were only three or four races - Caucasian, Negro, Asian (actually, the word, "Oriental" was used more often), and Australoid. Nothing was said, for example, about American Indians, or Eskimos, whom we now call "Native Americans" and "Inuit" (although they have a taste for making up their own names in Canada).

To the extent that 17th century Europeans considered Black Africans at all, they presumed (and observed) that they were somehow vastly inferior to Europeans, based on the fact that they were encountered in Africa living as primitives, much less advanced than their European contemporaries. Same with the natives of the Americas. The Europeans mainly observed "Stone Age" people whose culture and technology were at least a thousand years behind their own. Even the few relatively advanced peoples of the Americas (e.g., the Aztecs) were still culturally retarded...they had no animals that had been domesticated to do work, they had not invented the wheel, the practiced slavery and human sacrifice, sometimes on a massive scale, they had no metals that could be fashioned into a durable blade, they worshipped the sun and the wind, and the lacked the technology to even make a wooden board, much less a ship that could sail the world. How could they possibly think of these peoples as equal to themselves?

It is worth noting that the "White Man" could have continued slavery in perpetuity; they certainly had the power to do so. It was only through the collective conscience of the White Man that slavery was formally abolished, and Blacks were slowly and grudgingly given the opportunity to succeed according to their individual talents.

Racism and other prejudices will never die out. They are part of human existence, as men always want to think themselves superior to someone, for whatever reasons they can muster. American Blacks are fortunate to live in a society where one man's racism cannot hold them back because there are non-racists, and even people who support the success of POC's beyond individual merit. The difference in "success" between American Blacks and generations of American immigrants who have dealt with the same sorts of prejudice is stark. The Asians, the Eastern Europeans, the Irish, the Italians, and so on, have been able to enter the middle class within a generation of stepping on our shores, through a combination of hard work, entrepreneurship, education, and a productive culture. Even immigrants from Africa and Black immigrants from the Caribbean have achieved success that for exceeds the success of US-born Blacks.

So it's not the result of racism. It's other things that I will decline to mention.

 

[SaxonJackson]

How is it that members here on the right only think things are about race when blacks talk about it?

When they complained about CRT wasn't that whites making an issue of race? Wasn't that white racist demagoguery? And what about Trumps rise? He rose using white grievance that started during Reagan. White grievance is all about race. How many untalented, uneducated whites have become wealthy and famous by pushing white grievance? Why isn't that considered a race hustle? Why isn't white grievance called an industry? Why aren't the whites whining about how hard it is to be white dissed as having a victim mentality? Why aren't whites in this grievance industry told how they are using race as a crutch to cover for their personal failings? Why didn't whites on the right consider Trump picking 3 white justices as picking justices only because of race? There were black conservative justices with better qualifications than Gorsuch, Kavanaugh or Coney -Barrett. And why wasn't Coney Barrett considerd a DEI choice because Trump was told he had to pick a woman?

White people have a race — but everyone flips out when we talk about it​

As far as Lee Bebout was concerned, his Arizona State University course, US Race Theory and the Problem of Whiteness, was off to a good start. A multiracial, politically diverse group of undergraduates was enrolled. He’d prepared a syllabus and was ready to lead them in seminar-style discussions, assigning basic readings and weekly papers on the history of race in America and other topics.

But the class had met exactly once in the beginning of the 2015 spring semester, when news of it — or its title, at least — spread past campus. Bebout was at lunch with his wife in January when a producer for a conservative radio show reached out to book an interview about the course. Next, Fox News wanted to talk.

"I thought, ‘Oh god, this might not be a good thing,'" Bebout, who tends to talk about the controversy in bemused understatements, remembers.

Then came the hate mail. Lots of it. More than one message commanded the 38-year-old professor, who is white, to "go live in Africa." The outrage reached a fever pitch that transcended the everyday internet trolling that goes hand in hand with just about any news that relates to race.

"Things got obviously weird," he says, "when white supremacist groups came to my neighborhood."

It was more than weird — it was scary. He received death threats. All for daring to talk about whiteness.

The people campaigning against the course were incensed at what they understood to be an entire semester dedicated to slamming white people. But the Problem of Whiteness wasn't designed to convince students that white people are a problem. The negative language in the course's title was simply a nod to how tough it can be to talk (or even think) about what it means to be white, when white is so deeply etched in the minds of many Americans as a synonym for "raceless" or "neutral." The reaction to the course seemed to prove this thesis.

Bebout, then an assistant professor of English (the school stood behind him, and he's since received tenure and is a full professor) had previously taught courses like Transborder Chicano Literature and American Ethnic Literature. He says he created the Problem of Whiteness for practical reasons: "I can study Chicano studies, I can do critical race theory to some degree, but without understanding whiteness, it felt like there was this big gap that I wasn't able to understand in the field."

In other words, you really have to understand the idea of whiteness to even begin to talk about race in America. As Columbia University historian Barbara J. Fields told the producers of PBS's series Race: The Power of An Illusion, it was self-identified white Americans of European descent who "invented race during the era of the American Revolution as a way of resolving the contradiction between a natural right to freedom and the fact of slavery." Slavery is over, but whiteness remains the identity against which ethnic groups are compared and the identity that racism protects.

"You really have to understand the idea of whiteness to even begin to talk about race in America"

White people have a race — but everyone flips out when we talk about it

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money...

www.vox.com

"it was self-identified white Americans of European descent who invented race during the era of the American Revolution as a way of resolving the contradiction between a natural right to freedom and the fact of slavery."

Whites invented race in this country. Therefore whites are responsible for the problems caused by what they created. This means that riht wing whites need to stop asking everybody else how they can fix the problem. All whites must take steps to eliminate the problem they created. Not just some while others sit on their asses criticizing those who try making an effort to end racism. This is not about who owed slaves during the Jurassic era or what Africans did; and don't try that tired lie about Anthony Johnson or how some blacks owned slaves too. Stop lying about how it's all in the past, because this forum shows that it is not. Take some of that responsibiity you tell everybody else to take and do your part.

Blacks are more obsessed about race than any other race on earth -- bar none.

But to suggest that whites "invented race" is one of the most ridiculous concepts that I've ever heard. The various races have existed since the dawn of man. Whites didn't create blacks, Hispanics, or Asians. One would have to be a complete idiot to believe they did.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I have a great idea, IM2.

Why don't you write a book about this?

 

[Delldude]

Were Republicans really the party of civil rights in the 1960s? | Harry J Enten | The Guardian

Forgot to mention those bills wouldn't have passed without Republican support.

Kinda important fact..............no one is saying they were civil rights crusaders.

 

[whitehall]

Trump did more for race relations in a speech in Pa. than plantation democrats did in the last fifty years. The post is proof that desperate times on the left calls for the race card.

 

[jc456]

White is a color

 

[irosie91]

White is a color

Melanin deficiency

 

[imawhosure]

How is it that members here on the right only think things are about race when blacks talk about it?

When they complained about CRT wasn't that whites making an issue of race? Wasn't that white racist demagoguery? And what about Trumps rise? He rose using white grievance that started during Reagan. White grievance is all about race. How many untalented, uneducated whites have become wealthy and famous by pushing white grievance? Why isn't that considered a race hustle? Why isn't white grievance called an industry? Why aren't the whites whining about how hard it is to be white dissed as having a victim mentality? Why aren't whites in this grievance industry told how they are using race as a crutch to cover for their personal failings? Why didn't whites on the right consider Trump picking 3 white justices as picking justices only because of race? There were black conservative justices with better qualifications than Gorsuch, Kavanaugh or Coney -Barrett. And why wasn't Coney Barrett considerd a DEI choice because Trump was told he had to pick a woman?

White people have a race — but everyone flips out when we talk about it​

As far as Lee Bebout was concerned, his Arizona State University course, US Race Theory and the Problem of Whiteness, was off to a good start. A multiracial, politically diverse group of undergraduates was enrolled. He’d prepared a syllabus and was ready to lead them in seminar-style discussions, assigning basic readings and weekly papers on the history of race in America and other topics.

But the class had met exactly once in the beginning of the 2015 spring semester, when news of it — or its title, at least — spread past campus. Bebout was at lunch with his wife in January when a producer for a conservative radio show reached out to book an interview about the course. Next, Fox News wanted to talk.

"I thought, ‘Oh god, this might not be a good thing,'" Bebout, who tends to talk about the controversy in bemused understatements, remembers.

Then came the hate mail. Lots of it. More than one message commanded the 38-year-old professor, who is white, to "go live in Africa." The outrage reached a fever pitch that transcended the everyday internet trolling that goes hand in hand with just about any news that relates to race.

"Things got obviously weird," he says, "when white supremacist groups came to my neighborhood."

It was more than weird — it was scary. He received death threats. All for daring to talk about whiteness.

The people campaigning against the course were incensed at what they understood to be an entire semester dedicated to slamming white people. But the Problem of Whiteness wasn't designed to convince students that white people are a problem. The negative language in the course's title was simply a nod to how tough it can be to talk (or even think) about what it means to be white, when white is so deeply etched in the minds of many Americans as a synonym for "raceless" or "neutral." The reaction to the course seemed to prove this thesis.

Bebout, then an assistant professor of English (the school stood behind him, and he's since received tenure and is a full professor) had previously taught courses like Transborder Chicano Literature and American Ethnic Literature. He says he created the Problem of Whiteness for practical reasons: "I can study Chicano studies, I can do critical race theory to some degree, but without understanding whiteness, it felt like there was this big gap that I wasn't able to understand in the field."

In other words, you really have to understand the idea of whiteness to even begin to talk about race in America. As Columbia University historian Barbara J. Fields told the producers of PBS's series Race: The Power of An Illusion, it was self-identified white Americans of European descent who "invented race during the era of the American Revolution as a way of resolving the contradiction between a natural right to freedom and the fact of slavery." Slavery is over, but whiteness remains the identity against which ethnic groups are compared and the identity that racism protects.

"You really have to understand the idea of whiteness to even begin to talk about race in America"

White people have a race — but everyone flips out when we talk about it

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"it was self-identified white Americans of European descent who invented race during the era of the American Revolution as a way of resolving the contradiction between a natural right to freedom and the fact of slavery."

Whites invented race in this country. Therefore whites are responsible for the problems caused by what they created. This means that riht wing whites need to stop asking everybody else how they can fix the problem. All whites must take steps to eliminate the problem they created. Not just some while others sit on their asses criticizing those who try making an effort to end racism. This is not about who owed slaves during the Jurassic era or what Africans did; and don't try that tired lie about Anthony Johnson or how some blacks owned slaves too. Stop lying about how it's all in the past, because this forum shows that it is not. Take some of that responsibiity you tell everybody else to take and do your part.

I agree with others IM2stupidtobereal, you should write a book on this subject and explain why you are on your knees for Democrats constantly. Everyone knows they have their knees on your necks, yet you embrace them.

Being a class F (F for fail in case you are wondering) poverty pimp fits your attitude well. As a proverbial poverty pimp, has the media and Leftists looked the other way over your taxes like they did for the Reverend Al, hehehehehehehe. What was that you uttered.......no!

Why not?

What was that you double uttered--------------->because the government doesn't tax welfare or wic to start with.

We now understand, and let us know when you write that book-)