What White People Fear

[dreamdancer 0]

interesting...

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In the struggle for racial justice, it’s time to pay more attention to the fears of white people.

In a white-dominated world, that may seem counterintuitive. In the racial arena, what do we white people have to be afraid of?

There are lots of things to fear in this world, of course; race is not the only aspect of life in which people face injustice and inequality. A majority of people of all colors (including working-class and poor whites) struggles economically in a predatory corporate capitalist system, and all women, regardless of race, cope with gender discrimination and the threat of sexual violence in a male-dominated world.

But what fears could white people have as white people?

Understanding the fears behind the racial politics of both conservative and liberal whites can help guide strategy for changing a society in which wealth and well-being are still tied to race. And make no mistake, there is still a racialized gap between white and non-white America on measures of wealth and well-being—income, home ownership, graduation rates, access to health care, infant mortality, etc. In fact, the gap between white and black America on some of these measures is greater today than in the immediate aftermath of the major legislative achievements of the civil rights movement, and on some measures the rate of improvement is so glacial that it will be decades, if not centuries, before we reach equality. The legislative achievements that ended legal apartheid in America were a great victory, but the economic apartheid that remains is a reminder of our failures.

http://www.alternet.org/media/146040/what_white_people_fear_

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[rhaig 0]

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more pointless crap!


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[airdvr 210]

Almost laughable if it wasn't so sad...

Please don't dent the planet.

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[pirana 0]

OK, I give up; what fears do they have? Or should they have? Or, . . . tell you what; why don't the people who believe they have fears (fears grounded in their whiteness) just tell us what they are?

Unless this is just another senseless troll across Lake IMO, then please disregard.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[Andrewwhyte 1]

Food with flavour?

[chutem 0]

Dancing in public?

James

[rehmwa 2]

Just the title of the thread itself is so stereotypical and racist.......


But, let's play - well, since all 'white' people are exactly the same, what do they have to fear?

tough question

I suggest sock puppets

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Just the title of the thread itself is so stereotypical and racist.......


But, let's play - well, since all 'white' people are exactly the same, what do they have to fear?

tough question

I suggest sock puppets

I'm shivering in fear just reading he words.

James

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I suggest sock puppets

And clowns. Don't forget clowns.

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[billvon 3,070]

Being required to dance

[CanuckInUSA 0]

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Dancing in public?

Jumping? "White Men Can't Jump"

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[kelpdiver 2]

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Dancing in public?

Jumping? "White Men Can't Jump"

Whitey demands a 9' rim.

[dreamdancer 0]

they laugh at?

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they laugh at?

You ...

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

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I suggest sock puppets

And clowns. Don't forget clowns.

MIMES! Don't forget mimes! ...and big hairy spiders! ...and things that go bump in the night!


Chuck

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Bwaaaahaaaaahaaaaahaaahaaa

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[dreamdancer 0]

they certainly seem a trifle perturbed...

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Abusive, derogatory and even racist behavior directed at House Democrats by Tea Party protesters on Saturday left several lawmakers in shock.

Preceding the president's speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the passage of health care reform. The gathering quickly turned into abusive heckling, as members of Congress passing through Longworth House office building were subjected to epithets and even mild physical abuse.

A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) relayed word to reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-M.D.) had been spit on by a protestor (the protestor was reportedly arrested by Capitol Hill police). Rep. John Lewis (D-G.A.) a hero of the civil rights movement was called a "nigger." And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president's speech, shrugged off the incident.

But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/20-6

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[Belgian_Draft 0]

Chucky dolls

HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.

[mnealtx 0]

http://thedanashow.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/video-debunks-lib-accusations-that-slurs-were-shouted/

So - do you have the same anger toward the SEIU people that called Kenneth Gladney a 'nigger' before beating him badly enough to need a trip to the hospital?

Mike
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Sunburn.

[Andy9o8 2]

Guarding the basket. Why even try?

[billvon 3,070]

>So - do you have the same anger . . .

Exactly. Anything is excusable if someone else did it first. "Gun nut Richard Poplawski killed some cops. So what? Did you have the same anger when Ted Kennedy murdered Mary Jo Kopechne? No? Then you have no right to condemn Poplawski for murder."

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>So - do you have the same anger . . .

Exactly. Anything is excusable if someone else did it first. "Gun nut Richard Poplawski killed some cops. So what? Did you have the same anger when Ted Kennedy murdered Mary Jo Kopechne? No? Then you have no right to condemn Poplawski for murder."

Never said that, Bill - makes a good strawman for you to beat on, though.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[dreamdancer 0]

these folks seem a bit fearful...

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A confederate group is making the best out of the government’s evil plot to lock up patriots like Michele Bachmann in internment camps using information gathered in the 2010 Census.

The Southern Legal Resource Center, an advocacy group devoted to “defending the rights of southerners to honor their culture and heritage,” is telling Americans of “southern ancestry” to write “Confederate Southern Americans” under Race on their Census forms. Why? To end the persecution of white people, of course. In a YouTube video, the group’s attorney Kirk David Lyons lays out the philosophical framework for their brave stand:

Every week, I get letters from across this great land of ours, from people of Southern ancestry, who complain of being discriminated against, harassed, humiliated, terminated from employment, their children suspended from schools, simply because they are proud of their confederate ancestry.

Time to organize! He continues:

This community, which (sic) are most accurately called, Confederate Southern Americans, face this type of persecution without legal protection or even sympathetic representation. The SLRC is spearheading a nation wide effort to give people of southern ancestry a voice with legal protection through state and local governments through the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The group expands on their Facebook page:

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/28/wtf-confederate-group-thinks-southern-racists-should-be-considered-a-race/

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[rushmc 23]

Funny perspective on your part

Thanks

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