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Find your love voice or I else won’t take my fingers out of my ears, alright?
I think the writer of this post would make more friends and allies if they weren’t so inflammatory and angry all the ti… no, wait… …. [W]hen white people tell us that we need to “find our love voice” when … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism, competence
Tagged movement-building, racism, social movements, white skin privilege
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When the people you’re shitting on start winning while playing by “the rules”… change the rules.
Hat-tip to Charred Caesia. Things they don’t teach you in your imperialist white-skin-privilege school #94 (e.g. the one I went to) When the people whose land you are busy stealing, whose culture you are destroying, start to “win”, then it’s … Continue reading
Rich white people don’t DO things like that
Listening to the radio the other morning, and they had various vox pops by South Africans in the wake of the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp (see excellent Grauniad piece by Marina Hyde). And one of them, a woman (and clearly … Continue reading
Walking while black
I am white, male, clearly middle-class, no tattoos or piercings, very tall and wide (as in, people tend to leave me alone). Although I have been physically assaulted (Paris, 2001), and on the receiving end of verbal abuse, it’s been … Continue reading
“I’m not a racist, but…”
Last weekend, I left a spectacularly-badly run two-day workshop at the halfway point. And the following morning, some people who don’t know me at all decided it was because we had been about to have a “speak out” about black … Continue reading
Wise words on Trayvon Martin
Tim Wise has, as ever, told it like it is about race and America. (NB I am not saying my own country, Australia, is any less screwed up). However much has changed in the U.S. since the 1960s, or for … Continue reading
Posted in death, fear, framing, politics
Tagged race, racism, Tim Wise, Trayvon Martin
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A question of … racism
Gotta post this now, before I lose the nerve. This morning I turned up at a pub/restaurant at just gone 8am for a big veggie breakfast. A young woman and man were waiting outside. They worked there, and the manager … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge
Tagged bell hooks, Implicit Association Test, Malcolm Gladwell, racism, Tim Wise
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Timing is everything…
Oh boy. Six months on a chain gang for riding on a bus. Obviously, civil disobedience is no panacea. The timing must be right, the tactic, apt. Originality counts. One size does not fit all. The first Freedom Rides were … Continue reading
Posted in activism
Tagged I fought the law and the law won, racism, repertoires, state power
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White face, black face: TV and “ingrained heuristics”
What we see is what we expect to see. This on page 35 of a long and interesting article entitled “Assassinate the Nigger Ape[]” : Obama, Implicit Imagery, and the Dire Consequences of Racist Jokes by Gregory Parks and Danielle … Continue reading
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Tagged Gladwell, Implicit Association Test, Obama, racism
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