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    Rooo sez BISH PLZKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 2:22pm

    A bibliography, both for those who would genuinely be interested to help and also for the near-inevitable lunatic trolls (before they even start):

    Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race by Jean Halley, Amy Eshleman, Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya

    The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz

    Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide by Barbara Trepagnier

    White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism by Paula S. Rothenberg

    Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism by Regina Horsman

    Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression by Joe R. Feagin

    White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

     

    H/T: Linda Alvarez, Assistant Professor for the Department of Central American Studies at California State University, Northridge. She tweets from @LindaAlvarezPhD.

     

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      ktfright | Kinja Neighborhood Black GuyRooo sez BISH PLZ
      3/29/17 6:56pm

      Holy crap, I actually took one Linda Alvarez’s classes at CSUN! I for the life of me couldn’t remember the course, but she was an amazing professor my junior year :)

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZktfright | Kinja Neighborhood Black Guy
      3/29/17 7:00pm

      Well, you give her a call or Tweet at her and let her know her work does not go unnoticed and she did not do it in vain.

      #InUrStuffReadingItAll

      I didn’t come across this till last night and I was like “Must spread immediately so tired of telling people what privilege is ten thousand times a day fingers literally nearly bleeding a bibliography? Really???”

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    Rooo sez BISH PLZKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 2:09pm

    #BlackWomenAtWork

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      TheBurnersMyDestinationRooo sez BISH PLZ
      3/29/17 2:13pm

      It’s kind of a small thing, but watching that interview I really appreciated that Chris Hayes didn’t interrupt her. He started to say something a couple of times, then stopped when he realized she was still talking. So much of the news is just people interrupting someone to try to prove a point, and it was kind of nice to see someone just shut up and let their guest say their piece.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZTheBurnersMyDestination
      3/29/17 2:39pm

      Chris wrote a book on the topic recently

      So as hypercompetent a journalist as he is, I’m sure he was just as conscious of the damage he could do if he didn’t practice what he preached.

      Especially after this debacle, when he didn’t cut Steve King’s racist tirade off at the RNC:

      https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/steve-king-nonwhite-subgroups.html

      In addition, what I’ve noticed about the MSNBC anchors is that they give EVERY qualified expert guest they have on the show the time to explain their POV.

      (Did you see veteran engineer Bill Nye the Science Guy offer his expertise on Lawrence O’Donnel’s show a couple of hours later, following 45's unveiling of his Impending Disaster So-Called Environmental Policy? He treated him exactly the same way. I’m sure there are clips on the internet if you missed it.)

      So at the end of the day, he was treating Representative Waters with exactly the amount of respect anyone in his position would give any other policy expert in her position ... which is all anyone who has been asking to be treated the same as any other professional with his or her experience, who’s had an experience like Congresswoman Waters or White House Correspondent Ryan has, is EVER asking for ... contrary, apparently still, to popular belief.

      Which latter is a big old good half of the problem at least.

      #NotLookingForSpecialTreatmentJustNotToBeTreatedAsLessThan

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    DolemiteKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 12:22pm

    “they’re patriotic, but they turn a blind eye to the destruction he is about to cause to this country: You are not nearly as patriotic as we are.” That’s true. It’s not patriotic to say, “my country is great just the way it is, even if it’s terrible for many citizens that have no voice. Don’t you dare disrespect the flag or Pledge -think of the soldiers!” That’s not patriotism. That’s blind, ignorant nationalism. These guys fear women and minorities because they know that once the disenfranchised people can get their foot in the door, the party is over for all of this bullshit like privatized prisons, low-wage collusion, wasting trillions on wars, taking taxpayer dollars from the poor and sick and giving it to the rich.

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    TheBurnersMyDestinationKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 12:30pm

    I’m sure that will end well for them. *heart eyes at Maxine Waters*

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      STLOrcaTheBurnersMyDestination
      3/29/17 2:09pm

      I know, right? I’m ready to bring her some slippers and a cool drink.

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    TrumpsTinyHandsKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 12:39pm

    If, by some quirk of physics and karma, these three shit-heads were to be sucked off the face of the earth and hurtled into the sun to be exploded into a puff of disassociated atoms, that would be just fine. Just fine indeed.

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      NeuroplastiqueTrumpsTinyHands
      3/29/17 2:46pm

      Dude, “sucked off” and these guys in the same sentence...no one wants that image.

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      3/29/17 3:13pm
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    STLOrcaKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 2:08pm

     O’Really [sic] was surprised when he went to a restaurant in Harlem and black people acted, in his words, like “normal people”.

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      TzaSTLOrca
      3/29/17 2:29pm

      I just do not get this idea that people who lookg different aren’t people. It’s never made any sense to me.

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      STLOrcaTza
      3/29/17 2:33pm

      Well, when all you have is Fox News blaring stereotypes all day long, pretty soon we all look like we’re fidna bust a cap in somebody’s ass. Poor Billow* probably had to pack extra Depends in his man-purse just in case.

      “*Billow the Clown” ©Keith Olbermann

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    Vaginafication NationKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 2:40pm

    This. Is. Excellent.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZVaginafication Nation
      3/29/17 2:42pm

      Kirsten won a journalism prize a bit back. I’m always excited to see what she has to say. It’s always like when they bring Captain Freedom out of retirement in The Running Man. #BigGun

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    Cali4lifeKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 12:46pm

    Thank you for these beautiful words. The strong black women who raised me would be proud. And a few of them would say: They’re all stupid and, I wish he would say that to me.

    And if by some miracle of goddess one of those mediocre white men got in a black woman’s face, absent their tv show or fake podium... let’s just say they’d never even think about looking sideways or talking shit to another black woman as long as they live.

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      embraceyourinsectoverlordCali4life
      3/30/17 3:59am

      maxine waters is the utimate queen bee yas queen

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    DemessiKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 12:28pm

    Amazing how all the white feminist have come to thier aid. Rallying and demanding apologies. Really gratifying to see.

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    Hu-ManKirsten West Savali
    3/29/17 9:53pm

    As a minority male—although not black—I think the reason is this: A Black Woman Most Fully Exposes the Insecurities of A White Male Identity.

    Socially, politically, and financially the most powerful, members of the White Male “class”—as the most visibly and generally identifiable group—is also inherently the most competitive with each other. That is, if a White Male wanted to vie for a CEO spot, he is most likely to compete with several other White Males. Over time, you have the self-fulfilling paradox of 1) the bias that only the White Male is qualified for positions of power, and 2) the insecurity of not being enough of an “Alpha” White Male to win.

    The Black Woman—suffering yet triumphant through her own strength, grown and raised by strong Black Mothers, and confident and POISED to be her Own Person—is the absolute CLEAREST, in-your-face evidence of those two fallacies. In short: 1) no, being White or Male is not a qualifier for anything, and 2) the White Male insecurity is actually ironically a point of pride, because it dismisses the merits of anyone who is not a White Male.

    The Successful Black Woman makes the White Male feel less White and less of a Man. The Successful Black Woman makes race and gender into a platform of strength, not a platform of privilege. The Successful Black Woman is the purest manifestation of a true American Dream. The Successful Black Woman threatens the silver spoon that is the White Male identity.

    To which I say: keep on fighting the good fight.

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