To:\u00a0 Yale “People Against Police Brutality”
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
\nRe: “White Saviorism”<\/p>\n
Dear PAPB,<\/p>\n
A panel composed of social justice warriors from your campus recently indulged in one of the great twisted pleasures of Urban Progressive Privilege; intersectionalizing every corner of life.<\/p>\n
You the plague of “white saviorism” – honkies who mistake “interacting in any way with non-white-communities” as “good”.<\/p>\n
\nA five-person panel discussed how white supremacy and the idea of of the \u201cwhite savior\u201d affect the operations of nonprofits in New Haven and across the United States on Wednesday night at the Afro-American Cultural Center. Over the course of an hour, panelists described to the packed house the prototypical white savior who does not truly understand or meet a community\u2019s needs, applying the concept to the nonprofit sector.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThe nonprofit industrial complex is very real and very alive in New Haven and needs to be dismantled just like any other oppressive system,\u201d said Kerry Ellington, organizer for People Against Police Brutality. \u201cWhite folks are centering themselves in these spaces and don\u2019t know how to listen to the communities they serve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Normally, I’d be snarking at the bloodless identitymongering involved in a claim like this.<\/p>\n