WHY, WHITE PEOPLE? Why Is It So Hard to Accept Your Supremacy?
Why is this infographic so offensive? White folks are up in arms for being called out on their stereotypes! Joy Behar can whisper to Sir Patrick Stewart on live television, "Maybe you can get her to change her hair!" Whoopi Goldberg gets the Star Trek reboot, and all Joy can think about is getting her a perm. Sir Patrick replies, "She can do what she wants."
Just like Joy can be a ginger until she's one hundred and fifty.
I like Joy Behar. I could not help but wonder, though--out of ALL the things top-of-mind at that moment--all she could do is make style suggestions. Sheesh.
You could never tell as many lies as her and keep your job. Neither you nor I could get such a job if we only had Kayleigh McEnany's 'qualifications.' Her job is to tell you the truth is a lie and a lie is the truth, all while sporting the cutest little teeny tiny cross EVER.
White people get upset when you tell them THEIR NORM is not THE NORM.
Via Tonja Renee Stidhum on Twitter.
A tempest in a teapot? I don't think so. They got The National Museum of African-American History & Culture to back down as if this graphic says:
"All white people eat skinless, boneless chicken with no seasoning and wash it down with warm tap water."
Do whitefolk not know that they have redefined the narrative to something that makes them feel less accountable and more comfortable? Talk about 'dishing it out but not being able to take it'!
We can feel y'all tiring of all the attention black folks' demands are getting. "Pending legislation" is a black hole, from which no meaningful change can escape.
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House Democrats can kneel and snipe and tweet, but maybe it's time for them to show up in Portland.
"Yet toward the end of May the institution posted one of the most racist documents I’ve ever seen, as part of a web page about “whiteness.” This graphic didn’t gain widespread notice until last week, at which point the museum promptly yanked it down."
Robert Tracinski calls the above infographic "one of the most racist documents" he's EVER seen! Clearly, the man has never read a Trump Executive Order. I waited to introduce him to you so you could try to make sense of what he is saying.
Bob thinks this graphic is the slippery slope to alt-whiteness! He seems to believe it, too.
Charlie Sykes and Bill Kristol improve my life. Rick Wilson cusses like a brother.
I don't know any of them personally, but they like mah tweets sometimes. These men have undergone a sea change while America watched. None of them were so entrenched in their positions of influence that they could not take the risks involved in speaking out. And they ain't just whistling Dixie, either. These men and others have done more than that with The Bulwark. They've given me some place to go and find out what decent conservatives are thinking without getting shit on my stilettos.
But Bob. Why's he so outraged that his stereotype is punctuality? It feels really snowflaky, and not up to the standards of The Bulwark, you feel me?
White people, black people do not hate you. We take you one at a time, as we hope you would receive us. I spent a session or two with an all-white Bible study group that meets in one of my favorite bakeries. They talked about "not being racist," and "caring about the homeless," but when I asked them, "Can you do something for the colleague at work whom you know isn't being treated right? Would you take in a black person who had fallen upon hard times? Would you do something for Jesus that would jeopardize your mortgage?"
"Those are really deep questions," they told me. What the infographic seeks to tell you is this:
"Privilege means never having to say you're sorry."
Compare these two movie trailers:
BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO SPEAK OUT WHEN OTHER BLACK PEOPLE CHOOSE NOT TO SEE HOW THEY MIGHT BE SHORT-CHANGING US.
Did somebody force WilPacker Productions to leave off all the black folks' names in this here country trailer? Nobody got any billing except him. I don't get it. If he says he didn't want to take away from the beauty of the cinematography by cluttering it up with some edifying title design ('cause it's called 'The Photograph,') I won't believe him. I like to think he told his financiers how he done saved them a crap-ton in royalties and residuals down the road.
This lack of respect irked me so much I haven't seen the movie. How are these actors going to demand more money and better billing without screen credit? Even writers get that!
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