Comments | trinker: 44 years and more ago, and another from the past 44 hours

trinker

44 years and more ago, and another from the past 44 hours

Jan 13, 2012 23:33

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poc america, postracial my ass, we're all in this together, didn't you get the memo to stop?, racism

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wcg January 14 2012, 14:32:02 UTC

Thanks for the link to the snippet of Dr. King's speech. Good stuff, and it's always good to hear that marvelous voice. It's also nice to have that evidence he wasn't as totally colorblind as some might wish to believe.

browngirl January 14 2012, 16:55:30 UTC

Now I'm trying to recall a really great term I heard for the next step beyond 'colorblindness', where differences are acknowledged but not *ranked*.

trinker January 14 2012, 19:09:55 UTC

Color neutral.

browngirl January 23 2012, 19:27:34 UTC

Rummaging my files, I realized I'd forgotten to reply and thank you for reminding me. So, thank you. :D

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intelligentrix January 14 2012, 16:44:10 UTC

In October, I did an art festival in Memphis. On Monday, before we headed home, we took several hours to go to the Civil Rights museum there, built around the old Lorraine hotel. It was a powerful and stunning reminder of all that Dr. King was fighting against and for, and how far we still need to come. When I say stunning, I mean it literally. I find I'm still processing the experience now. I know I'm not doing a good job of being articulate in this comment, but there is too much...

Thank you for the links and your perspective.

trinker January 14 2012, 19:14:03 UTC

*nod*

I think of that shock of sudden illumination as a one of the defining characteristics of what it means to be white, or sheltered, in this society.

spideyj January 14 2012, 20:57:00 UTC

The illumination of recognition of privilege? If only more people experienced that ( ... )

intelligentrix January 15 2012, 15:54:52 UTC

For me it was the intersection of intellectual knowledge with emotional knowledge. The sheer volume of information (much of which I had seen before) all gathered together in one place and presented in an almost immersive way was pretty overwhelming.

aleksie January 15 2012, 05:16:41 UTC

The conversation (maybe I'm being naive) went better than I was anticipating. Of course, we have a long way to go and two posters clearly have race issues but I was glad people (multiple people at that) called them on their BS in an educational and firm but not belligerent way, as well as folks taking the initiative to contact Goodwill. I know some of them are not POCs, and they still got it.

I'm not saying obviously ignore the bad, but there is still some progress. There's a lot of bad things, too; at the big city yard sale in York, PA about 5-6 years back, these people were selling all this blackface stuff. They had "The Jolly Nigger" bank (that was printed on it) among others. It was remarkable they had all of this stuff and were selling it like it was normal.