Zone1 White Culture holds back white people

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This kid is totally guilty of cultural appropriation

 

[Libby von H]

How Racism Hurts White People Too​

Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive.


Susana Rinderle, MA, ACC, Contributor

Imagine you work hard your whole life: at school, work and home. You win some and you lose some, and at times it feels like there’s more losing than winning. Life’s not easy, but you hang in there and follow most of the rules. Some people are less kind than others, and your interactions with teachers, coworkers, bosses, store clerks and bureaucrats can be challenging. Like most people you know, you do all right, but sometimes struggle to pay bills, find a decent place to live, put your kids in a decent school, and get your basic needs met. You see less deserving folks get rewards or perks you don’t. You worry about the future.

And then someone says you have “white privilege.”

I get it. I’m White. Growing up with three darker-skinned family members and mostly “minority” classmates, I hated racism. I thought it meant meanness and abuse directed towards people of color, particularly Blacks, and as a teen I vowed to do my part to stop it. I bristled at the suggestion that I contributed to racism or benefitted from so-called “privilege” just because I was White. What a load of crap! I was a conscientious, empathetic person with multicolored friends. I went out of my way to treat everyone with respect and dignity, even advocate for equality. I worked my butt off in challenging social and financial circumstances to achieve a great deal. To suggest I hadn’t earned it fairly was deeply insulting. To say I got unearned advantages sounded like a copout from lazy complainers.

Eventually, I learned that my well-intended understanding of racism was woefully superficial and incomplete. I learned that I was blind to much of what was going on around me, because I’m White. I also learned a dirty secret about racism: It hurts White people too.

Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive – how to live in multiple worlds, speak multiple languages and quickly navigate complex realities. It coddles us by making us too fragile to fully hear, understand and receive what people of color are saying, much less take responsibility for our part. It makes us too fragile to talk with people or color in any way that doesn’t meet our standards of comfort and familiarity, much less tolerate being in groups where we are the racial minority.

How Racism Hurts White People Too

Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive.

www.huffpost.com

Susan Rinderle is right.. I've seen some of this and what she says and she is absolutely correct.

This, especially American white culture does them more harm than anything they imagine coming from whatever perceived threats some whites have concocted.

Sadly there are black people help perpetuate this lifestyle of denial.

We do things like tell them nothing is their fault and that white racism is not a problem. That all the deficits we were born into were self inflicted..

“Racism skews our sense of reality. It damages our humanity. It makes us weak.”-Susan Rinderle

Except the reasoning is sheer racism, reminds anyone who's study history of the one-drop-rule

So who is all white or all black
19.6 percent of African Americans have at least 25% European ancestry
A record 15.1% of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another.
IN fact when you say Black you might well mean Caribbean and not African at all
The vast majority of Black immigrants are from two regions: the Caribbean and Africa. These two areas accounted for 88% of all Black foreign-born people in the United States in 2019.
And we were a minor part of the whole picture
Well over 90 percent of enslaved Africans were sent to the Caribbean and South America. Only about 6 percent of African captives were sent directly to British North America.

 

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White people really are the worst.

 

[Mashmont]

How Racism Hurts White People Too​

Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive.


Susana Rinderle, MA, ACC, Contributor

Imagine you work hard your whole life: at school, work and home. You win some and you lose some, and at times it feels like there’s more losing than winning. Life’s not easy, but you hang in there and follow most of the rules. Some people are less kind than others, and your interactions with teachers, coworkers, bosses, store clerks and bureaucrats can be challenging. Like most people you know, you do all right, but sometimes struggle to pay bills, find a decent place to live, put your kids in a decent school, and get your basic needs met. You see less deserving folks get rewards or perks you don’t. You worry about the future.

And then someone says you have “white privilege.”

I get it. I’m White. Growing up with three darker-skinned family members and mostly “minority” classmates, I hated racism. I thought it meant meanness and abuse directed towards people of color, particularly Blacks, and as a teen I vowed to do my part to stop it. I bristled at the suggestion that I contributed to racism or benefitted from so-called “privilege” just because I was White. What a load of crap! I was a conscientious, empathetic person with multicolored friends. I went out of my way to treat everyone with respect and dignity, even advocate for equality. I worked my butt off in challenging social and financial circumstances to achieve a great deal. To suggest I hadn’t earned it fairly was deeply insulting. To say I got unearned advantages sounded like a copout from lazy complainers.

Eventually, I learned that my well-intended understanding of racism was woefully superficial and incomplete. I learned that I was blind to much of what was going on around me, because I’m White. I also learned a dirty secret about racism: It hurts White people too.

Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive – how to live in multiple worlds, speak multiple languages and quickly navigate complex realities. It coddles us by making us too fragile to fully hear, understand and receive what people of color are saying, much less take responsibility for our part. It makes us too fragile to talk with people or color in any way that doesn’t meet our standards of comfort and familiarity, much less tolerate being in groups where we are the racial minority.

How Racism Hurts White People Too

Racism coddles Whites by not requiring us to learn what all people of color must do to survive.

www.huffpost.com

Susan Rinderle is right.. I've seen some of this and what she says and she is absolutely correct.

This, especially American white culture does them more harm than anything they imagine coming from whatever perceived threats some whites have concocted.

Sadly there are black people help perpetuate this lifestyle of denial.

We do things like tell them nothing is their fault and that white racism is not a problem. That all the deficits we were born into were self inflicted..

“Racism skews our sense of reality. It damages our humanity. It makes us weak.”-Susan Rinderle

No, here's what hurts people. Looking for ways to be angry victims. Successful people, white or black, are positive, optimistic, affable, hard-working and moral.

 

[IM2]

No, here's what hurts people. Looking for ways to be angry victims. Successful people, white or black, are positive, optimistic, affable, hard-working and moral.

Nobody is looking to be angry victims and since you don't go into threads by whites who diss blacks saying anything do not address me in this manner again.

 

[Lisa558]

Nobody is looking to be angry victims and since you don't go into threads by whites who diss blacks saying anything do not address me in this manner again.

He is perfectly entitled to express his opinion, just as you do with yours.

 

[el midgetron]

Nobody is looking to be angry victims and since you don't go into threads by whites who diss blacks saying anything do not address me in this manner again.

Let’s face it, you are only saying that to him because he’s white. If he was black and you disagreed with him, you would just call him an “Uncle Tom”.

 

[Lisa558]

Let’s face it, you are only saying that to him because he’s white. If he was black and you disagreed with him, you would just call him an “Uncle Tom”.

I also noticed his sanctimonious attitude in saying “do not speak to me in that manner again” to whitey. Have you seen the way HE scolds and disses people who disagree with him? Yeeks.

 

[el midgetron]

I also noticed his sanctimonious attitude in saying “do not speak to me in that manner again” to whitey. Have you seen the way HE scolds and disses people who disagree with him? Yeeks.

It’s his black fragility.

 

[Lisa558]

It’s his black fragility.

That would be a great title for a book!

 

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“Whiteness” is a racial slur.