tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41418251104845485872024-02-08T02:02:16.493-08:00Love Hate Black WhiteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14240249765505260981noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141825110484548587.post-83079138479516252782015-01-16T17:29:00.000-08:002015-01-16T17:49:08.504-08:00White Civility Disorder <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The more politically powerful a group is (like Whites), the more they will tend to scramble to appear "civilized" in front people with less power, to compensate for their racist/classist impulses and actions. That's my theory. The compulsion some have to appear excessively civilized or well-mannered, is also a subconscious means of downplaying all the stolen power they enjoy; all their unfairly attained White privilege. It's in the best interest of a such a person to downplay their racism and pretend their racism – and all racism – doesn't exist, to act like they couldn't possibly dislike you or your "kind"; to try and hold on to the benefits of all that racism by pretending to kill people with kindness. The term I use for this historical ritual is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><b>White Civility Disorder</b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">The British (among others) came to the US and called the Indians and Africans they raped, brutalized, killed and enslaved "savages", while greeting their fellow Whites "properly", creating elaborate "pomp and circumstance"-like rituals for each other, to be rolled out in open social interactions. It was a form of denial; a way to say, “We are good, righteous people. Just look how nice we are to each other.” With the addition of religious righteousness, enslavement and maltreatment of other human beings became nothing more than another expression of God's good work.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">But these days, now that Whites have lost some power to minorities, they can no longer reserve that civility for other Whites. In many cases, false civility toward non-Whites is now a necessity too:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Gone are the “good old days” for White racists, when they could randomly hiss scathing racial epithets at any old Black person anywhere they went, all day long, then turn to their White child and find a way to chastise her for “not watching her manners”. Now, many racists feel forced to act polite in at least some situations, or risk getting called the “r-word”, not just by someone Black or Asian, but by someone White. These days acting openly racist could result in vocational or even legal consequences, unlike the days of Dixie.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Still, instead of acting outwardly racist, some people will smile through passive-aggressive language instead, trying to appear outwardly civilized while saying mean things. That person is hoping to trigger a negative outburst, so she can pretend she said nothing wrong and tell herself that person's reaction to her was uncivilized.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why is it that most Black/White interracial relationships are between Black men and White women, rather than Black women and White men?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Popular theories:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">While there isn't one simple explanation, there is a more basic political dynamic that gets overlooked: <i>Sexism</i>, not just racism, changes dating dynamics. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">W</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">hen a Black man encounters racism in his White girlfriend or wife, he might find himself excusing her behavior by reminding himself that he still holds a large political advantage over her: <b>men are still valued over women, regardless of "race"</b>. She can be as racist as she pleases toward a Black man, and he - like any man from any ethnic group - can retaliate with some expression of sexism toward her, possibly to include physical dominance or violence. ...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"You might be White but I'm in charge because I'm a man," might be the sexist attitude he uses to dismiss or excuse her racism or race privilege, and justify staying with her. Some men will reason that a woman's comments or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> opinions aren't that important anyway; nothing to take too seriously. She's just talking out of her ass again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not so with WM/BW pairings. Black women will have to deal with two political banes: White men with their White privilege and racist tendencies, <i>plus</i> their male privilege and sexism. And that may be one of the main reasons a lot of Black women choose to stick with Black men. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14240249765505260981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141825110484548587.post-11472402535587925562014-09-19T01:52:00.003-07:002014-09-19T01:52:39.230-07:00The Palestinian AND American Occupations <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you are an American citizen but not a Native<i> </i>American, you are currently occupying land that still belongs to American Natives, many of whom continue to languish on reservations, not unlike Palestinians in Palestine. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Note that what I mean by <i>Native American</i> is a person who is Native to America, not those who have a case of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lovehateblackwhite.blogspot.com/2014/08/native-american-princess-syndrome.html" target="_blank">Native American Princess syndrome</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here are some flawed arguments you (as an American) may invoke to justify your distain for an occupied Palestine, while hypocritically excusing your own status as an occupier of Native American land: </span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">"The European occupation of North America began a long time ago, unlike Palestine." </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Occupation of someone else's land is still occupation. Native Americans and Palestinians have suffered greatly as a result of both occupations.</span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Many people who aren't native to Palestine will argue England needed to "give" European Jews Palestinian territory as a refuge from religious persecution. A parallel argument exists for English occupation of America. The main difference is that part of the pro-Palestinian occupation argument is that (stolen) land was needed to guard against potential threats of completed genocide of Jews in the future. In both cases, developed land with long-established dwellers was stolen and Native people have been devastated as a result. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As a non-indigenous US citizen, even if you aren't related to the folks who stole America; even if your people were originally kidnapped and forced onto American shores, today you are still occupying land belonging to indigenous tribes. You are still an occupier, as the Israelis are occupiers. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm sitting here at my desk as a biracial, Ashkenazi Jewish American occupier of Native American land, asking <i>What should I do about this?</i> The easy answer is, or should be, <i>leave</i>. And that leads to another question: <i>Why haven't I left?</i> The selfish answer is: <i>Because this feels too much like home</i>. I've grown attached to the land and the sense of security it affords me. My identity is attached to both the <i>experience</i> of it and my personal history on it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Other questions come to mind, based on my "security and comfort bias": Will my leaving at this point make any real difference? That question quickly leads to the <i>what is done is done</i> argument above. It hints at a belief that increased temporal distance from an egregious constellation of events renders those events (and their effects) irrelevant. A similar question arises: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Is returning land to American Natives even</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> a reasonable expectation at this point?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />Since I'm unwilling to leave, what can I do as an occupier, to help reduce the damage in my wake, or to personally work toward reparations? Is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> donating time and money to tribes enough? D</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">o I ask people from one or more NA nation to have prolonged talks about this issue (still, as an occupier)?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Would those discussions unfairly place the burden of solving problems I/we have created or continue to create on them? Would the request be condescending, or just open wounds that have yet to be closed?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Would not engaging be better ... or be worse?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Seems individual responses would vary, like in any situation. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Even though many of us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> hypocritically point our fingers singularly at the wrongness of Israeli occupation, facts are facts: <i>both</i> the American and Israeli occupations were and still are wrong. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The price Israeli Jews are paying to enjoy their stolen "gift" is ongoing violent engagement, and a need to be in a constant state of high alert. White Jews in Europe have been segregated against, forced into ghettos and worse, but they have recently forced Palestinians into a segregated ghetto on their own land. I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">t's tragic that anyone's life should end in violence and there's never an excuse for terrorist acts, but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i> occupiers</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> must also remember there are consequences - sometimes very unpredictable consequences - for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">taking over someone else's land, displacing a group of people, and causing them to suffer. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Since White Americans dominate the media, it's no surprise brothers Tsarnaev, who murdered three Bostonians and maimed hundreds of others on April 15, 2013, were labeled the "<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-anniversary/108-hours-inside-hunt-boston-marathon-bombers-n76956" target="_blank">Boston bombers</a>", rather than terrorists, or "Boston terrorists". <i>Rolling Stone</i> "graced" the front cover of one of its issues with a whimsical photo of </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: x-large;">Dzhokhar, symbolically conflating a sociopath with a rock star icon. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: x-large;">Inside, Janet Reitman reports on both brothers, but mainly Dzhokhar</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>.</i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">"The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Native American Princess syndrome</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> is an illness that requires</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> healthy doses of honesty and empathy to recover from. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">1</span></b>. <b>Believing that "one drop" of Native American ancestry makes you, a White person, a Native American. </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You're mindlessly subscribing to a kind of Native American <a href="http://lovehateblackwhite.blogspot.com/p/glossary.html" target="_blank">One Drop Rule</a> for Whites, except you secretly believe the small % of alleged or real NA "blood" you have is a social advantage, rather than a curse (like African ancestry, for example).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">2</span></b>. <b>Claiming to be a descendent of a "Native American Princess". </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You, as a man or woman who is overwhelmingly White, do not have to have all three symptoms to be stricken with NAP syndrome. For example, you may not be afflicted with the ignorance or deception that is #3, but may still suffer from #1 or #2, or both. It's a disease that spreads quickly, causing Whites who overhear you to pretend they too are NA. But you can stop this embarrassing social contagion before it spreads any further. Arm yourself with facts and face reality.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Blacks, despite enduring hundreds of years of White oppression in the US, have more or less integrated</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> into White-dominated American society, compared with Native Americans</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. The complex history between Blacks and Whites, including ongoing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> tension and competition</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, makes them frenemies. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There's little incentive for frenemies to romanticize each other's cultures or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> claim one another's ancestry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>As of 2010, BRs still only represent 2.7% of the American population, according to the <a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-13.pdf" target="_blank">USCB</a>, but are disproportionately over-represented in American academia, politics, and other vocations and industries, especially relative to Blacks.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">In reality, there are likely more than 2.7% of us. While dual ancestry could have been claimed on the 2010 census, (waning) acceptance and practice of the "<a href="http://lovehateblackwhite.blogspot.com/p/glossary.html" target="_blank">One Drop Rule</a>" may have led some BRs to only identify as "Black". But even if there are twice as many BRs in the US compared to the latest USCB report, BRs still appear to over-represent Black people in the areas described above. In that way, BRs may have some privilege as a group, based on model minority status, relative to Blacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">BRs are also disproportionately over-represented in media. BRs - most often <a href="http://lovehateblackwhite.blogspot.com/p/glossary.html" target="_blank">ambi-BRs</a> - tend to suffer less negative stereotyping in the media, relative to Blacks. This may translate into social privilege in the form of a warmer, or at least more neutral, reception by many non-Blacks. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: x-large;">As a BR, you see people like you playing a variety or roles in movies and on TV, that are meant for Blacks, BRs, Latinos, Italians, Greeks, Whites and others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;"><u>For example</u>: If you're a White-appearing or ambi-BR, Non-Blacks may say things like, "You're so handsome ... I need to introduce you to my daughter," while looking you directly in the eyes and wrapping an arm around your shoulder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;"><u>A less dramatic example</u>: Older, conservative-looking White strangers act in familial ways, like offering to fix your shirt collar, or flip a tag back into your shirt). They tend to ask before touching your hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;"><u>For example</u>: Statements commonly made about BRs are, "You have the best of both worlds" (whatever in the Hell that means), "You guys are always so great looking","You represent a better future", etc. Silly BR stereotypes will often be more positive or neutral than negative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;"><u>For example</u>: Assuming you look ambi-BR or White, you've likely never really thought twice about possible racist backlash for spontaneously expressing your anger, outrage or disgust toward a White person in a position of authority over you, or in front of a larger White audience. You're pretty sure you've been viewed as an individual expressing a problem you wanted fixed, rather than as a (Black) trouble maker to be tolerated, dismissed or punished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">You've done inappropriate things like raise your voice at your boss or yell at a White cop, and you weren't treated harshly or arrested as a result. There may have been a neutral reaction, as if the person decided you're just having a bad day. They don't tend to reprimand you or give you that citation you deserved for going twice the speed limit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">No one's given you cause to believe you've been stereotyped as the "aggressive Black man" or the "angry Black woman", etc. You don't worry about coming across as a stereotype and you don't selectively watch what you say around Whites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">You've never been questioned about your intentions when shopping or momentarily sitting/standing outside a business establishment. You don't wait longer than non-Blacks to be seated at restaurants. You aren't praised for being "articulate". You aren't expected to speak for all Black people in discussions. If you are a women: from experience, you know that when your car breaks down, a good samaritan of any "color" will likely show up very soon, if not right away, to help you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">You don't notice White strangers staring or giving dirty looks when it's just you among your White friends or acquaintances. (Geography needs to be kept in mind here. The more racially diverse the region, the less likely you are to get open reactions.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">You have been openly hit on by hard-core racists (like neo-Nazis or other "White pride" enthusiasts), in front of their racist White friends. I'm not suggesting it's a privilege to be hit on by these knuckle heads. I'm saying their reaction to you is a strong indicator you're accessing White privilege in every day life, possibly without knowing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">If you've dated (or date) Whites and/or non-Blacks, no one bothered to point it out. No one acted like it was unusual. You didn't get incredulous or dirty looks from anyone. Once again, geography needs to be kept in mind. A more racially diverse region typically means less open reactions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">There are some recent studies that appear to reveal a "colorism" bias when it comes to who gets hired. But the mistake many scholars make when studying colorism, is not treating the subject of colorism as another form of racism (multi-racial favoritism): There's a high correlation between lighter skin and European or partial-European ancestry, regardless of the “non-White” group/s being studied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">"'The findings in this study are, tragically, not too surprising,' said Harrison. 'We found that a light-skinned black male [likely a biracial man] can have only a bachelor’s degree and typical work experience and still be preferred over a dark-skinned black male with an MBA and past managerial positions, simply because expectations of the light-skinned black male are much higher, and he doesn’t appear as ‘menacing’ as the darker-skinned male applicant.' ... '</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">According to a New York Times writer (“<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/28immig.html?_r=1&" target="_blank">Study of Immigrants Links Lighter Skin and Higher Income</a>” (2007), Dr. Hersch said of her study results, “On average, being one shade lighter has about the same effect as having an additional year of education.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: large;">You don't find yourself wondering if someone didn't call back because of your "race". Generally you get reasonably prompt call backs. Potential employers seem surprised or uncomfortable upon first meeting. ( Naturally the assumption here is you have basic people skills and aren't a lousy interviewee who's inappropriately dressed or has hygiene issues.) </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14240249765505260981noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141825110484548587.post-22781053253988798802014-07-21T20:07:00.000-07:002014-08-04T16:51:09.737-07:00Whites Who Aren't as White<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Growing up, I wondered why Italians (American </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>or</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> European) were all considered "White" in my community. Many have olive or brown skin, broad facial features and hair that - to me anyway - resembles that of many Middle Easterners and North Africans. Most Spanish and Greek people (plus most Turkish people), generally looked different to me too - different from Northern Europeans. I never really viewed any of those groups as just White.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This term is almost always used by Whites to refer to a person who is thought of as the quintessential representation of an American citizen. The "All American" person being described is almost always mono-racially White, and most often has blond hair and blue eyes - a combination of traits that even most Whites don't have. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The term "All American" renders minorities - including actual Native Americans - politically invisible. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Everyone</i> is "ethnic" because each of us has at least one ethnic heritage - that includes all Whites/European Americans. Likewise, <i>everyone's</i> food, clothes, etc., is "ethnic". It's therefore ignorant and exclusionary to label someone else's people, culture, food or hair products "ethnic". </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Words like "race", "biracial" and "multi-racial" are imperfect descriptors, but are currently the most familiar and/or convenient when trying to identify certain groups of people. "Ethnic", "bi-ethnic" and "multi-ethnic" are more accurate, I think. I use both sets of terms interchangeably. </span></span></span></span></div>
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If you want to stereotype Blacks and sound silly doing it, use t<span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;">he term "urban"</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"> to connote Blacks and Black culture </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;">(as in </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"urban movies", "urban stores","urban marketing", etc.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;">). </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;">Black people live in <i>all</i> types of settings, including the suburbs. Substituting "Black" for "urban" also reinforces images of our country's history of legal segregation, with the suburbs assumed to be a space for Whites only. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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Of course I'm liberal!</i><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i> I talk to all sorts of ethnic people ... Latinos, Asians, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Africans </span>... whoever.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span></i> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Africans/Blacks are typically listed last when the topic of discussion is neutral or positive, and Asians tend to be either second, last or completely forgotten.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">When Africans or Blacks are listed </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">first</span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, the thought is usually structured like this: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><i>I think </i></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; text-decoration: none;">mean people</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> suck. Doesn't matter whether they're </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; text-decoration: none;">Black</span></span></i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i>, White, purple or green</i>. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;">There is a sociological concept called the "East-West dichotomy". Politically-minded people and others express it when they allude to "the West", "Western ideas" or make statements about the "East", or "Eastern philosophy". Basically, the East-West dichotomy is used to identify and categorize all world cultures and political systems by way of a single, rigid, binary socio-political model. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">White and Black Americans alike tend to suffer from racial myopia. People within each group tend to live American experiences that are somewhat shaped by the actions and reactions of the other group.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whites have been granted so much privilege from birth, that many find it impossible to appreciate or gauge the sheer breadth and depth of it. A few Whites are more aware than usual, but even then, what's needed for Whites to broaden their perspective on their privilege, is repeated consultations with non-White people: Whites asking non-Whites, including Black people, how White privilege has created problems for them, and listening carefully without automatically getting defensive. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Recently I heard a White poster on a talk forum state that “It's really not so great being White, you know”, not understanding that a lot of people don't imagine that Whiteness is inherently great. It's often more that a lot of non-Whites envy the access Whites have to all sorts of societal power - power originating from a stolen colonialist inheritance. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another expression of White racial myopia is a White person stating that “Whites have no culture”, overlooking the fact that White culture dominates America. Some Whites tend to “exoticize” cultures that don't fit into mainstream White American culture, and in doing so, become fixated on and/or envious of what they view as novelty. After a while, so many non-White American cultures are “discovered” by White Americans, that the White culture they had previously paid soul attention to looks bland or dull in comparison. “Exoticizing” others' cultures comes with the danger that some of those Whites will take things one step further and appropriate non-White cultures, rebranding those cultures as White. This is why it's important for Whites to stay alert to how their behavior and attitudes about their Whiteness affect themselves and others. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That statement is hyperbolic, but my subjective opinion is there does appear to be a stark difference in how Black Americans are perceived and treated relative to White Americans. Societal expectations are entirely different. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes, as a country we managed to get it together in the year 2008 and elect a half-Black president. We managed to do it again four years later. And in this same time period, we are still managing to have a whole Hell of a lot of racists speaking out against a “Black” president. When someone Black claims that Whites have no problems, it's a reminder that as a country, and as individuals, we still have plenty of work to do concerning racism and race relations.</span></span></div>
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