I just read this in a book by Tim Wise. It is very interesting and speaks to your very common attitude:Do stupid negroes like this understand that many white people, you know, the ones who work for a living and take care of themselves (unlike black welfare recipients), don't give much of a shit about his "problems?"This is an excellent article, thank you for posting itI 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)
...when I’m talking about a racist act, I don’t have much interest in whether or not the person responsible is “a racist.”
If that sounds counterintuitive, then you could really use this clarification about addressing white supremacy: It’s not about identifying people as racists.
It’s also not about “bashing” white people – but you may interpret it that way if you’re feeling uncomfortable. And then you might whitesplain that people of color are “attacking” you for no reason.
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.
So you’re not under attack if a person of color is talking to you about race – not even if they’re calling you out for racism.
I remember one call-out in which writers of color let a white editor know how he’d contributed to racism in the publishing industry, and how he could do better.
Because it’s such a sensitive topic, many people interpret any mention of racism as a conflict – and this discussion was no different.
The editor’s friends immediately rallied to his defense, saying, “He doesn’t have a racist bone in his body!”
But nobody had even said this man was “a racist.” We simply pointed out that his actions had a harmful impact – and his being a good person wouldn’t make that impact vanish.
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.
Your belief that someone “doesn’t have a racist bone in their body” can lead you to overlook the impact of what they’ve done and focus instead on their intentions.
In other words, you’re oversimplifying the issue, separating yourself from “the bad guys” and saying good people can’t possibly do something wrong.
Unfortunately, good people contribute to white supremacy every day – and if you can’t face the ways white supremacy influences your life, you’ll never be able to change it. That means you’ve got to stop focusing on your good nature and intentions, which has you prioritizing your feelings over people of color’s pain.
"Indeed, even cash welfare – created as part of the 1935 Social Security Act – was originally supported as a way to help white women whose husband had died or left home to look for work during the Depression. Interesting isn’t it? Cash welfare was originally conceived on these grounds: as a way to foster benign dependence on the state. And virtually no one balked. But as soon as women of color gained access to the same benefits, those programs came to be seen as the cause of all that was wrong with the poor. They made you lazy, encouraged you to have babies out of wedlock and needed to be cut back, perhaps even eliminated.
Doesn’t it seem convenient that growing opposition to government intervention in the economy, the housing market and the job market and other aspects of American life parallels almost directly the racialization of social policy, and the increasing association in the white mind between such efforts and handouts to the undeserving “other?” That people who had long reaped the benefits of big government simply came to a deeper understanding of the inherent dangers of such a thing, only AFTER they had ridden the wave of such benefits for generations? No, the backlash against government was directly related to the increasingly common belief that “those people” were abusing the programs."
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.