“You’re Just Trying To Make Me Feel Guilty” 2
Another View, a marvelous show on one of our local public radio stations, tackled the topic of “white privilege” on last week’s show. From the website:
Follow the link and listen.
Now.
You’ll then understand why I titled the post the way I did.
Also, mark your calendar to listen to the Friday, November 13, show. The monthly round table is always entertaining. The host skillfully gives the panelists enough leeway to speak freely without letting them get completely out of hand.
One of the topics is scheduled to be the the highly commendable revolt of the Missouri football team over unchecked racism at their campus. That episode should rip and snort in all the right places.
Aside:
When I was in elementary school, history books called 1619 the “Red Letter Year.”
November 10, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Oops, their database has fallen and it can’t get up.
That said, you can’t fix WhiteManistan. You can dissect it, call up all the scholars and civic activists in the country, nothing is going to work despite minor victories here and there. And, really, the Missouri football team was a pitched battle from the start for all the same reasons college football is criticized.
I do have a theoretical question, though, to the powers that be. Was it worth destroying the livelihoods of middle class white entitled America, finally driving them into madness and dispair, for the sake of every last bit of global profit, when in the lashing out, they’re willing to bring everything down?
November 10, 2015 at 4:41 pm
It’s probably seldom a good idea to choose to maintain your dominance by appealing to the powers of darkness. The darkness is bigger than you.
That’s not spiritualism. That’s sociology.
(It’s working now.)