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I thought I was above the debate, rather than a part of it. I told oyceter that she could change her terms. And with that, I pretty clearly demonstrated that I was not above the debate. By trying to excuse all the white people, and by telling oyceter that the derailment was her fault because her definitions were being “misunderstood”, I was displaying my white privilege. I was part of the debate because not only can I not escape my white privilege, I wasn’t even trying to.
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I refuse to go along with this week's warm, feel-good celebrations of Harper Lee's novel (published fifty years ago today), To Kill a Mockingbird. Simply put, I think that novel is racist, and so is its undying popularity. It's also racist in a particularly insidious way, because the story and its characters instead seem to so many white people like the very model of good, heartwarming, white anti -racism. A few days ago, NPR (National Propaganda Public Radio) aired a typically laudatory piece on the novel, voiced by reporter Lynn Neary.
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.
deepad | White people, its not all about you, but for this post it is
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
