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June 29 - August 18, 2020
To romanticize the tears and the agony of the people,” Bennett wrote, “is to play them cheap as human beings.”
I was fleeing to poor Blacks in racist assurance of the superiority conferred by their danger, their
the Black gentrifier is moving back to the poor Black neighborhood to be developed.
They hid the Whiteness of their spaces behind the veil of color blindness.
too many Black people were “looking out” at the world from a European “center,” which
“If we can’t be objective, then what should we strive to do?”
“Just tell the truth. That’s what we should strive to do. Tell the truth.”
By comparison, near the height of violent crime in 1995, the FBI reported the combined costs of burglary and robbery to be $4 billion.
Policies of space racism overresource White spaces and underresource non-White spaces.
Ideas of space racism justify resource inequity through creating a racial hierarchy of space, lifting up White spaces as heaven, downgrading non-White spaces as hell.
(HWCUs)
When people contend that Black spaces do not represent reality, they are speaking from the White worldview of Black people in the minority.
To be antiracist is to recognize there is no such thing as the “real world,” only real worlds, multiple worldviews.
Poor Black neighborhoods should be compared to equally poor White neighborhoods,
After enduring slavery’s violence, Frazier and his brethren had enough. They desired to separate, not from Whites but from White racism.
antiracist desire to separate from racists is different from the segregationist desire
Ideas often dance a cappella. Their silence erased queer existence
“tangle of pathology,”
Moynihan called for national action to employ and empower Black men, who had been emasculated by discrimination and matriarchal Black women.
“How about: Are you willing to submit one to another?”
Black feminists rejected the prevailing Black patriarchal idea that the primary activist role of Black women was submitting to their husbands and producing more Black babies for the “Black nation.”
“intersectionality.”
gender-racist idea that the pinnacle of womanhood is the weak White woman.
White women get away with murder and Black men spend years in prisons for wrongful convictions.
Black men raised in the top 1 percent by millionaires are as likely to be incarcerated as White men raised in households earning $36,000.
Racist ideas suggesting Black people are more hypersexual than White people and homophobic ideas suggesting queer people are more hypersexual than heterosexuals intersect to produce the queer racism of the most hypersexual race-sexuality, the Black queer.
We cannot be antiracist if we are homophobic or transphobic.
...or support property rights, apparently
To be queer antiracist is to understand the privileges of my cisgender, of my masculinity, of my heterosexuality, of their intersections. To be queer antiracist is to serve as an ally to transgender people, to intersex people, to women, to the non-gender-conforming, to homosexuals, to their intersections, meaning listening, learning, and being led by their equalizing ideas, by their equalizing policy campaigns, by their power struggle for equal opportunity.
This is painful. The conjugations and verbal gymnastics. Who reads this?
Challenging the conjoined twins separately is bound to fail to address economic-racial inequity.
Here you go — he dares not say “crush capitalism”, but rather “the conjoined twins”
Harmless White fun is Black lawlessness.
The problem of race has always been at its core the problem of power, not the problem of immorality or ignorance.
To fight for mental and moral change as a prerequisite for policy change is to fight against growing fears and apathy, making it almost impossible for antiracist power to succeed.
An activist produces power and policy change, not mental change.
as a Will Smith character tells his son in one of my favorite movies, After Earth.
This settles it. How can I keep reading after he admits “After Earth” is one of his favorite films
SUCCESS. THE DARK road we fear.
Where people blame policy, not people, for societal problems. Where nearly everyone has more than they have today.
“Isn’t racism essential for America to function?
unacknowledged bond between the institutional antiracist and the post-racialist.
The United States is a racist nation because its policymakers and policies have been racist from the beginning.
Black students were demanding Black studies because they considered all the existing disciplines to be racist.
The history of racist ideas is the history of powerful policymakers erecting racist policies out of self-interest,
As is the history of power. Power seeks defense and strengthening of institutions protecting and expanding their power
as long as the underlying cause remains, the tumors grow, the symptoms return, and inequities spread like cancer cells, threatening the life of the body politic.
innovate antiracist policy correctives,
Like supporting and apologizing for communist regimes?
OUR WORLD IS suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4. Racism has spread to nearly every part of the body politic, intersecting with bigotry of all kinds, justifying all kinds of inequities by victim blaming;
I still could not separate racism and cancer.
the heartbeat of racism is denial,
Pain is usually essential to healing. When it comes to healing America of racism, we want to heal America without pain, but without pain, there is no progress.
trillions of tax dollars we spend on cutting taxes for the rich, imprisoning people, bombing people, and putting troops in harm’s way.
Remove any remaining racist policies, the way surgeons remove the tumors.
Like apparently the tumor of capitalism and property rights...
