Yesterday, as part of MLK Day events at Yale, there was a free Sweet Honey in the Rock concert. It was amazing. Everything about it was fantastic. I just finished reading a biography of Afeni Shakur (a really rad Black Panther, b/k/a Tupac’s mom) by Jasmine Guy, and the end of the book is the…
Whiteness is the center that goes unnamed and unstudied, which is one way that keeps us as white folks centered, normal, that which everything else is compared to—like the way we name race only when we’re talking about a person of color,” Winn says. “We can name how some acts hurt people of color, but it’s harder to talk about how they privilege white folks.
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I see you’ve resurfaced again. This time you’re a white American man pretending to be a lesbian Syrian blogger Amina Asraf — must be really nice to slip into personas at will like that, being secure in your safe little bubble that nothing *really* could happen to…
I’ve been trying to figure out why this situation bothered me so much, beyond the obvious dishonesty. This blogger sums it up much better than I could have and it’s worth reading.
