{"id":52078,"date":"2015-03-18T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52078"},"modified":"2015-03-18T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:55:56","slug":"our-national-monologue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52078","title":{"rendered":"Our National Monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

In all of of this nation’s frenetic back-and-forth – usually just forth – over race, i’ve really just had one question, all all this time ”<\/p>\n

What do you want me to do?<\/p>\n

Only an idiot doesn’t recognize racism exists, in some form. And that’s above and beyond to the “We -ism” that is endemic to every human being in the world; the race of people around them is one of the first perceptions babies develop, with uneasiness about the difference following closely. <\/p>\n

And white privilege exists, too. Of course, the roots of white privilege date back hundreds, maybe thousands of years, when wage Northern European societies developed into patriarchal, militaristic societies dominated by aggressive warrior cultures that were able to avoid being enslaved, for the most part, as societies, at a time when most sub-Saharan African societies were small, matriarchal, and ripe for the picking buy more aggressive societies.<\/p>\n

That’s one of the greatest “privileges” a society can hand down to its offspring; a history of freedom.<\/p>\n

So racism and privilege exists. Stipulated.<\/p>\n

Now what?<\/p>\n

Writing at The Daily Beast,” John McWhorter, in a long, excellent article, has the same questions<\/a>:<\/p>\n

However, one can thoroughly understand how racism works and still ask just what this laser focus on \u201cWhite Privilege\u201d is meant to achieve.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is messy work, but these conversations are necessary,\u201d says Sandra Chapman, director of diversity and community at Little Red School House in New York City. OK\u2014but why? Note that the answer cannot be, \u201cSo that whites will understand that they are the privileged \u2026 etc.\u201d That makes as much sense as saying \u201cBecause!\u201d So I\u2019m going to dare to ask a simple question: What exactly are we trying to achieve with this particular lesson?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the questions keep coming. I will urge you to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In all of of this nation’s frenetic back-and-forth – usually just forth – over race, i’ve really just had one question, all all this time ” What do you want me to do? Only an idiot doesn’t recognize racism exists, in some form. And that’s above and beyond to the “We -ism” that is endemic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52090,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52078\/revisions\/52090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}