\nJackson and Rao are the founders of an organization called Race2Dinner. For $5,000 the two women will attend your eight-person dinner party and bring along “Lisa Bond, our Resident White Woman.” For that price, they will berate you about your racism. They will share their own experiences with racism, which sometimes don\u2019t sound like actual racism. But if you object or even if you agree, they will tell you that\u2019s what white women do and you\u2019re part of the problem. The two have a lot of observations about “what white women do.” White women are mean to each other, for instance. When they are accused of racism white women accuse black women of being “angry” or “crazy.” White women also say they\u2019re not racist. White women like dinner parties. And they like to say they\u2019ve donated money to the ACLU. If you suggest that black women may be mean to each other or that they may like dinner parties, you\u2019re also a white supremacist. Because how would you know? Don\u2019t say you have black friends because that too would be a sign of white supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Questioning whether spending $5,000 to have people call you names is also “white supremacy,” and the authors explain, “we are tired of it.” The fact that you are complaining about the price is evidence that you “see this work as charity. You doing us a favor. \u2026 White supremacy culture has you believing that you are doing us a favor by even caring about racism or antiracism. This results in your incessant demands that we educate you\u2014on your own<\/em> racism, on a system you<\/em> created to harm us for your<\/em> benefit. For free.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nOn the one hand, it sounds as hellish as the left tells us Thanksgiving with one’s family ostensibly is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, if I had a lot <\/em>more money than bills – or friends who’d be willing to pitch in – I think it’d be fun to pony up, invite the ladies, and watch the sparks fly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I have so much for which I should be grateful – and I’ll be going through the list, as far as I can, tomorrow. But I’m going to jump the (if you’ll pardon the expression) gun, and say I’m thankful I’m not that this grift. Whoah – did I say grift? I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,24,54,18,421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-culture-war","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-pc","category-snappy-answers-to-casual-gaslighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83929","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=83929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83941,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83929\/revisions\/83941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}