Starkeymonster's forcluelesswhitepeople Bookmarks on Delicious. "Check my what?" On privilege and what we can do about it | Official Shrub.com Blog. Stuff white people do. Deepad | White people, its not all about you, but for this post it is. I've got a lot of responses to my last post, and I'm very grateful for all my fellow cultural cripples who have shared their own frustrations and pain with me. And then I've got some comments that have lead to repeated head-desking, even with the support of more battle-hardened allies. So in this post, I'm actually going to talk to people who consider themselves White writers. We can have this conversation here, once, and I can point back to it to prevent future discussions with POC from being derailed.
Here's some responses to what I've been reading around this discussion, including stuff culled from my comments. Statement: But why do you feel a need to struggle?... You are placing yourself in a position of weakness by admitting inner insecurities... Statement: I'm a white male, and this suggests that I'm not allowed to write anything but white males. Response: Physically--White males experience less censorship than any other demographic on this planet. 2) Go read everything in 4) Join. Mass Media and Racism. By Stephen Balkaran Mass media have played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way white Americans perceive African-Americans.
As a result of the overwhelming media focus on crime, drug use, gang violence, and other forms of anti-social behavior among African-Americans, the media have fostered a distorted and pernicious public perception of African-Americans.1 The history of African-Americans is a centuries old struggle against oppression and discrimination. The media have played a key role in perpetuating the effects of this historical oppression and in contributing to African-Americans' continuing status as second-class citizens. Racism Before attempting to understand racism and mass media, one must understand the history of racism.
American race relations provides a case study in Marxist class theory. Segmentation Theory In the 1980's, Michael Reich developed the Segmentation Theory or the Divide and Rule, which attempted to explain racism from an economic point of view. We barely remember who or what came before - Not all cats are grey: 25 years of cover whitewashing in Joan Vinge's "Cat" series [IBARW3]