no surprise there!
The prominent diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo raked in $12,750 for a speaking gig last month at the University of Wisconsin—70 percent more than the other keynote speaker, black female author Austin Channing Brown.
freebeacon.com
Nothing here tells me if she's worth 15K to 30K for a speech.. You dont know or care either.
But free market is at work here.. You can find HUNDREDS of schooled and able black folks to lecture whites about race.. But the RARE FIND is a white academic skillfully lecturing white people to assume their guilt.. And HEARING that from a white person is SEEN as a "useful" advantage..
Of course when any black scholar goes "off reservation" -- and speaks about solving black issues in terms that are unacceptable -- they get BANNED from speaking at Universities at all !!!!
So maybe "cross-race" lecturing and badgering is WORTH MORE than "same race" badgering..
She isn't good at it tho./
SOme one like Ibram Kendi actually has solutions, crazy solutions, but he posits a few
Like having some board to check every federal policy to make sure there is no racially disparate impact. That's crazy. But it's at least an idea
DiAngelo posits a loop where your white guilt can never be overcome, and of course you have to keep paying DiAngelo to cleanse your soul.
She is the worst.
Radicalizing white upper class workers lol, and not in a way Kendi would be happy with .
You are wrong about DeAngelo and Kendi. White guilt is a construct created by white racists who don't want to accept responsibility for the things whites have continually done.
White guilt in it's current form is just a way to extort corporate HR departments for payouts
If you tell people they have privileges and that you're going to take them away, the obvious response is not to just give them away....
The whole concept of telling white people this is flawed.
White guilt is a construct created by white racists who don't want to accept responsibility for the things whites have continually done. The whole concept of building this system on white racial preference is what's flawed.
We're a democracy, they're teh majority
If you don't like it you can leave....?
That's a very rational position
There is no richer group of black people on the planet with any numbers outside America. Black Americans have it better than any other gruop of black people
You owe whites...
If your ancestors weren't slaves you be paupers in africa no one gave a shit about...? Again the whole concept is flawed
Every other non white group but native americans came her efor opposite reasons lol. Even the descendants of slaves in America do better than their counterparts all over teh planet. You're like a giant billboard for why it makes sense to come assimilate into white america.
Black Americans are richer than many european ethnic groups.
This is pure racist ignorance. Everything you say here is incorrect.
It's all true
Name where I went wrong?
Convenient how it's just all wrong yet it's obviously empirically correct....Post WW2 black americans had per capita more wealth than white brits per capita. And that's obviously under what amounts to basically an apartheid scheme in much of the country.
The likelihood you would be better off if your ancestors weren't brought to the states as slaves is pretty fuckin slim. They probably weren't better off, but they aren't you or anyone in 2020
You are not the Nigerian sons of doctors who we ship in today
You can cry all you want about it but those basics facts will remain unchanged. And i'm half Indian. My white ancestors fought for the Union. Gotta face facts some times. British colonialism did some good things for India. Being here has been for the msot part good for black america
No other black group with substantive numbers who can claim to live better.
No it's not true. You see, Slavery and colonization by whites stripped the continent of wealth and growth. You are presenting no facts. You are presenting a white psychosis riddled opinion that ignore much of history.
Read this and learn something.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Walter Rodney 1973 (abahlali.org)
Stripped it of wealth? By doing what?
Britain stole some things from India, they have some bigass jewels and other things with cultural or monetary significance.
But for the most part they did not steal anything that couldn't be fixed post colonialism, they ruined the economy and starved us for profit. Because luxury crops like spices are more profitable than rice. But once they left we could do things as we pleased. Roman elites did that to their own citizens, very common for land owners to not grow enough to eat even if those citizens are teh land owners kin. Their actions weren't exactly unprecedented evil in India or Africa.
Now I don't know the history of colonialism in most African countries outside Ethiopia which successfully resisted colonization and South Africa which obviously did not. But unless they salted your earth I don't see how you can blame Europeans after they've been gone for a few generations....? Europeans are not obligated to help you. Losers in war pay not the other way around.
You were subsistence farmers before the whites brought you death, destruction, and industrialization. Same with most of India, hell a huge % of India still is subsistence farmers or just ever so barely above it.
"under developed" is asking for hand outs. They "under developed" India and China as well. Didn't stop the Chinese, they have a very long history of what we would call "the state" taking control of all china unlike Indians and African nations. Why would you think African nations are any less repsonsbile for their own well being? Africans aren't the descendants of slaves no one owes them anything, you don't pay losers in a war when they're not citizens.
We talk about giving "ADOS" reperations because you're with us. Doesn't work that way for Iraqis or the Vietnamese or the many other ethnic groups we fuck with outside our borders. They're just losers, they get nothing. Debating how we would compensate our own for our states failures makes infinitely more sense than an African complaining ot a European about colonialism and them losing wars. Which historically means you (the loser of the conflict) have to pay
