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Sandy Banks, Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2008
The Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere was fired up at its conference in downtown Los Angeles last month.
“Reject the Hate in ’08” was their rally cry at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center near MacArthur Park.
“White privilege,” one speaker said, “is the enemy of equality.”
“We have to maintain our activism,” warned another, “and not let whiteness overtake us.”
The crowd—mostly young and white, with a hippie vibe—applauded as the small corps of self-described “anti-racist whites” tried to introduce them to their hidden racist ways. The peasant skirts, political T-shirts and revolutionary cries made me feel like I’d wandered back in time, into a radical chic salon.
But I clapped too, because it was nice to hear white people talk publicly, bluntly, about race. And not pretend to be colorblind.
Where whites get real about race
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On Monday, I interviewed Clare Fox, an urban planning student at UCLA who spoke at the meeting. Her talk about whites’ responsibility to challenge racism had struck a chord in me. For too long, minorities have done the heavy-lifting—explaining, excusing, fuming silently.
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When she returned to Los Angeles, the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere gave her a framework for her new sensitivities. The local chapter of the national organization was created five years ago “to create a space for anti-racist white people to talk openly and honestly about the role of whiteness and race in our lives.”
Now, at weekend anti-racism classes, Fox helps other whites get in touch with the notion of white privilege—the concept that whites still benefit in “invisible” ways in a country that once enslaved blacks and enshrined white supremacy.
“We have homework assignments,” Fox said. “Like at least once a day, use ‘white’ as a descriptor for somebody. You discover how odd that sounds—‘the white professor’ or ‘the white guy in the lobby.’
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“White kids born and raised post-civil rights associate ‘white’ with being bad and racist,” Fox told me. When she tried using MySpace for outreach, she got a message from an old friend—”Irish, white as they come”—who said “I really don’t appreciate being called white.”
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“It’s about newspaper headlines that say ‘Barack Obama’s Race Problem,’ like it’s something he’s supposed to solve. It’s not his problem. It’s all of ours.”
Dogged by race
It’s easy to tie yourself in knots pondering the impact of race. And some of what I heard at the anti-racism rally made me wonder if getting beyond race is possible.
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I think the concept of white privilege is real. Even Obama himself alluded to it, in my interview with him three years ago. “If you ask people of all races, ‘Is it tougher being black than white?,’ I think white people know the answer,” he said, “whether you ask in Utah or in Chicago or in Los Angeles.”
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(Posted on November 17, 2008)
Comments
White Skin privilidge, if it really does exist, does not require the presence of “people of color” for it to exist.In fact, it functions better without them.So what are they complaining about?Our superior society and standard of living is due to our industriousness and altrusim.
Posted by Peejay in Frisco at 6:24 PM on November 17
The Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere was fired up at its conference in downtown Los Angeles last month.
Contradictory, because you’re not supposed to have anything that’s only white. Seems like this group needs to integrate.
The crowd—mostly young and white…
Meaning college students, meaning that there’s a professor behind this.
ven Obama himself alluded to it, in my interview with him three years ago. “If you ask people of all races, ‘Is it tougher being black than white?,’
Imagine two people, one a black woman, one a white man, same age, same IQ, neither one of them have any college education, and both have the same rap sheet. Who’s going to have a better job?
“White privilege,” one speaker said, “is the enemy of equality.”
I once went to a St. Louis-area BMW, and asked them to give me their top-of-the-line 7-series sedan, because of my white privilege. The salesman (white) told me to get away or he was going to call the cops.
“We have homework assignments,” Fox said. “Like at least once a day, use ‘white’ as a descriptor for somebody. You discover how odd that sounds—‘the white professor’ or ‘the white guy in the lobby.’
Told you there was a prof behind this.
Even Obama himself alluded to it, in my interview with him three years ago. “If you ask people of all races, ‘Is it tougher being black than white?,’
Imagine two people, one black, one white, both have the same IQ, rap sheet, education level, personal demeanor. Who’s going to get the job?
Posted by Question Diversity at 6:25 PM on November 17
“If you ask people of all races, ‘Is it tougher being black than white?,’ I think white people know the answer,” [Obama] said, “whether you ask in Utah or in Chicago or in Los Angeles.”
Great…another reminder that my president is just as liberal as is my black Marxist “Women’s Studies” professor (I had to take the class in order to graduate).
What these idiots don’t get about white privilege is this: Even if I admit that it exists (and many people on this forum will most definitely argue that it doesn’t), are these Marxist colored and white folks willing to admit that societies are NATURALLY structured thus? Is it really even possible to found a city, so to speak, or construct a society when you have people of different races and colors trying to act as equal partners in the process and in the completed result (the result being the society)? Isn’t every society FOR the people who constructed it and FOR their descendants? WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE “PRIVILEGE” IN OUR OWN LAND. However, it’s not really “privilege” so much as it is “inheritance.” I say, if they don’t like the fact that we are privileged in our own land, they should just leave.
Posted by at 6:28 PM on November 17
I have never been able to relate to self-hating types. I firmly believe many actually enjoy wallowing in all this affected guilt, phoney introspection and self-flagellation. It feeds their masochism exquisitly. These are dysfunctional and decadent people – people who are easily mislead, easily made to believe the unbelievable, to embrace the irrational and to accept the implausible.
Tragically, this affliction seems to be a largely white phenomenon.
Posted by HH at 6:56 PM on November 17
Tim Wise and his army of anti-haters are taking to the streets.
Who would have imagined we would have Stalins’ Soviet Union, Maos’ China, and Pol Pots’ Cambodia re-education camps operating in the United States of America.
And what do you do to white people who won’t give up their power, privilege, and possessions voluntarily?
Look to the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 7:09 PM on November 17
“But I clapped too, because it was nice to hear white people talk publicly, bluntly, about race. And not pretend to be colorblind.”
Looks like this gentlelady will be at the next amren conference!
Posted by at 7:12 PM on November 17
I wonder how beneficial that “white privilege” is in Japan and China? Zimbabwe?
The crowd—mostly young and white, with a hippie vibe, are the new recepients of my own ways to combat racism.
I guess the only way I can teach them THE LESSON, is to let them experience Affirmative Action firsthand. Let’s see if I hire clueless whites. Let’s see if any minorities are going to listen to them when these people began to complain about discrimination.
Clare Fox, you are a bigger enemy to me than Je$$e Jackson and Al “Shakedown” Sharpton combined. Only now, after all of these years, am I finally going on the offensive against your type.
I already know that if I hire a less qualified minority over you, your complaints will fall on deaf ears.
Clare, I guess it never occurred to you that WE don’t have to practice job discrimination against minorites, or break some other law, if they don’t even score in the top half to begin with. Their failures provide my intended result anyway, all perfectly legal.
Passing you over for a minority, that too is perfectly legal.
Besides, I prefer the company of an MS-13 or a black gangbanger over some clueless white, self hating, liberal anyway.
I’m going after you and your type, with your own policies. Let me know if a minority hires you.
Posted by D.B. Cooper at 7:24 PM on November 17
How come whites can’t talk publically about race and be pro-white or say unfavorable things about blacks or latinos? When we whites can do that without getting ridiculed or fired or killed THEN we’ll be having open dialog about race.
Posted by at 7:29 PM on November 17
““Like at least once a day, use ‘white’ as a descriptor for somebody. You discover how odd that sounds—‘the white professor’ or ‘the white guy in the lobby.’”
I do this already, describe people as white. It’s necessary when you’re hip-deep in the Enriching Joys of Diversity. Also it’s nice to know that, however much I may disagree with a particular white person, at least we haven’t all disappeared yet.
Posted by WhitePersonHere at 7:35 PM on November 17
Quite frankly, it IS a privilege to be white. Unfortunately, in these buffoons eyes, that privilege is something to be ashamed of…something to apologize for. Crimeny. The privilege they talk of is currently enjoyed by those who live off of the wealth taken from whites and spread around to the slackers who still want more in the form of reparations. And it’s just gonna get “better” come Jan 20th.
Posted by hts at 7:41 PM on November 17
“White privilege,” one speaker said, “is the enemy of equality.”But I clapped too, because it was nice to hear white people talk publicly, bluntly, about race. And not pretend to be colorblind…………………..
What about ‘yellow privilege’, perhaps it is a result of actually working hard and being brought up in a positive environment. And isn’t it convenient that open talks about being ‘colorblind’ seem to be all about giving handouts to brown people, you don’t hear much about the social responsibilities that come along with living in a white society/country. And if these bleeding hearts feel guilty about their white privilege (which of course is a result of our ancestors blood, sweat and sacrifice), I am sure that they could find a minority more than willing to part them from their wealth.
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‘Where whites get real about race. Her talk about whites’ responsibility to challenge racism had struck a chord in me.
For too long, minorities have done the heavy-lifting—explaining, excusing, fuming silently……………
and this should be a warning to all the liberals that after all the work you have done in the past you’ll get little or no credit for it anyway, so what is the point. Aparently they have very (again conveniently) short memories.
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“If you ask people of all races, ‘Is it tougher being black than white?’……..
How do you qualify such a stupid question, I’m sure I would have a hard time in a foreign culture too.
And in the case of blacks (African ) when will they ever be happy that they live in a country capable of transplanting their heart for instances if need be.
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And once we are all ‘equal’ who exactly is going to collect the garbage? (I am not inferring that is a racial position, I’ve done it myself in a all white crew).
Posted by Gen X in Oz (Here for moral support) at 7:44 PM on November 17
“For too long, minorities have done the heavy-lifting—…..”
As if Whites never did any hard work! This is ridiculous! And if you don’t want to do menial tasks for a living, pay attention in school! For at least 40 years, this once White nation has bent over backwards giving minorties, especially Blacks – who show the least bit of promise a ride on the red carpet. How does anyone suppose Barack Obama’s father got into Harvard???
This “White privilege” thing is a lie. I don’t know any White people who have had the world handed to them – they all had to work. The only one’s I know of who seem to have an easier time of it are very good looking women who get swept up into high class modeling. But even that is not as easy as it looks…
I really think that this White Privilege complaint is what is claimed by those minorities who just don’t want to try and then see others – mostly Whites succeed and then they create the attitude that this was because of an invisible privilege that comes with being White.
When I was starting off as a youth wanting to work, I had to work hard. I remember two out of three of my bosses in those days saying to me, “I had a hard time when I was young, and you should too!” They were harsh, demanding, unkind and White. later, when I tried to get a job with the State, I found that because I was White, I had to get behind Blacks and other minorities. Later, I was told that I could not get a Small Business Administration Loan because I was a White male. That was in California. I have NEVER in my life experienced any privilege for being a White male. In the county I live in now in Washington, the overwhelming identity of country and city employees is female and minority – and that is in an 85% White majority county!
Posted by Whiteplight at 7:48 PM on November 17
“If you ask people of all races, ‘Is it tougher being black than white?,’ I think white people know the answer,” he said, “whether you ask in Utah or in Chicago or in Los Angeles.”
Who cares??? Life is tough no matter what color you are. What are white people supposed to do, guarantee a soft life for blacks? It seems to me that they’ve pretty much done that already for the last half-century: in welfare payments, hiring and school quotas, gerrymandered electoral districts, “hate crime” laws, handing over whole neighborhoods and school districts to blacks, electing a black President, and on and on ad infinitum, not to mention the obsequious deference whites such as those in the article continually render unappreciative blacks.
Whites have done all this for blacks, and yet blacks still have it “tougher than whites”?? All I have to say at this point is: “TOUGH!”
Posted by Zorba_the_Geek at 7:54 PM on November 17
“White privilege,” one speaker said, “is the enemy of equality.”
No, nature is the enemy of equality. I’d like to have the business acumen of Bill Gates, the body of the model on the cover of the current issue of Exercise for Men Only, the charisma of Don Juan, etc. Nature hasn’t deemed it to be so.
And I know of a nice neighborhood in Gary, Indiana where this speaker can go to live if he wants to give up some of his “white privilege,” rather than trying to guilt trip other whites into being as neurotic as he is.
it was nice to hear white people talk publicly, bluntly, about race. And not pretend to be colorblind.
This has got to be the funniest line in the whole article. The writer is invited to attend a future AR conference where the speakers are not only blunt but honest.
Posted by Tim in Indiana at 8:08 PM on November 17
Okay so being white is a privilege. But so is being smart; being good looking, and being rich.
Being good looking is a disadvantage in TV commercials. The powers behind commercial advertising have outlawed ads with attractive white people. Presenting an attractive (and intelligent) white person next to a minority shows just how unattractive the minority is. That’s why all the nerds and mutts are starring in TV commercials.
Next time Clare Fox or Sandy Banks need a surgeon make them pick a non-privileged person to do it.
Minorities take advantage of white privilege. Let’s have minorities throw out all the inventions created by privileged whites and live for one week.
What I like to see on Saturday Night Live. A skit showing Obama new all black crew flying Air Force One.
Posted by P Noctura at 8:13 PM on November 17
Holy moly! This article says that the new president understands the concept of white living space. It makes a difference “whether you ask in Utah or in Chicago or in Los Angeles.”
Posted by at 8:17 PM on November 17
The members of this “Alliance” are just plain old sick. And, no amount of reason or therapy is going to help them. Let me correct myself. A few weeks in Bed Sty, Detroit, DC or Newark might just do wonders!
Posted by GetBackJack at 8:41 PM on November 17
Im actually fortunately enough to be able to address a small sample of college students here at UCA on this topic. The gathering is about race and public opinion on campus. Four speakers(all white) are groveling their apologies for whiteness and preaching white guilt while I get to be the fifth speaker and my message will be the complete opposite. Should be interesting!
Shaun
UCA
Posted by Shaun at 9:24 PM on November 17
I was actually introduced to my “hidden racism” by groups such as this in college. Instead of feeling guilty, I felt totally justified and began reading the works of Jared Taylor, Samuel Francis and others and eventually finding my way to AmRen. I’ll bet those “anti-racists” would sure be proud of me!
Posted by Karl Alfred at 9:28 PM on November 17
These are the types the old Soviet Union would have placed in work camps in order to clear their minds so they wouldnt have so much time to allow their minds to wander to fanciful things that do not belong in the real world.
Posted by ice at 9:39 PM on November 17
What a pitiful bunch of self-hating people! Every race throughout history has done things that most of us would consider bad, ignoble, unfair, etc. Why is it only Whites who feel that they have to “feel guilty” about the deeds of ancestors, and somehow “make amends” for them?
If one accepts the idea of “White privilege” in this country — which I don’t — who is to say that the alleged privilege is not earned? In a very huge way, WE built this country. The others played secondary roles.
Posted by Wayne Engle at 9:59 PM on November 17
“White privilege,” one speaker said, “is the enemy of equality.”
Wrong! Genetic diversity is the enemy of equality.
Posted by at 11:06 PM on November 17
“I firmly believe many actually enjoy wallowing in all this affected guilt, phoney introspection and self-flagellation. It feeds their masochism exquisitly”.
Make no mistake, they intend to whip you. From Reagan Democrat, all they way to the special hell they would allocate for us pro-white activists. Every arm of the media seems intent on helping them maintain the apparatus of terror. That would make us the masochists, for rebelling. Who else would rebel? It’s certainly an idea that’s been brought up before.
All around the world they seem intent of ridiculing, watching, controlling, regulating and containing the white man. It’s almost a kind of war against white males. As if it’s 1939, we’re inside Nazi Germany, and we’re the jews, responsible for all evil in the past and present. Every element in society seems encouraged to act against white men. Which is weird, because by all accounts, they should be at war with the black men of the world.
Posted by Must. . . keep. . . them. . . down at 11:22 PM on November 17
what they call white privilege is white success based on honesty, integrity, work ethic, courtesy, industriosness, concern, law abiding,and other good qualities that only white people possess. because of the these qualities and the way we treat each other, white people enjoy a higher quality of life. if i dont steal from you, you still have your stuff, that simple. these people will never get it, they all need to be put into re-education mental health centers. they think the horse that won the kentucky derby won because of privilege. the only privilege we have is because we were lucky to be born white.
Posted by danjack at 11:24 PM on November 17
If we are so smart then why are we in the process of losing it all? This is being done mostly with the help and complicity of our own race.
Posted by at 11:29 PM on November 17
“If you ask people of all races, ‘Is it tougher being black than white?,’ I think white people know the answer,”
Well sure, in most cases disabled people have a tougher time in life than others, and the average black person is genetically disabled, but this is the fault of retarded evolutionary development rather than whites.
After all, white nations bend over backwards to give disabled people (including blacks) every possible artificial advantage.
Posted by at 11:37 PM on November 17
The alliance of white anti-racists can kiss my white priviliged a@@. They had best stay out of my face. I’m white, middle-aged, and sick to death of all this stupidity. If they hate their whiteness so bad, then do us all a favor and take your life. You will not be missed. Life isn’t easy for any of us. Being white means you stand a much greater chance of having a crime commited against you than if you were a minority. I really wish they would seriously consider hopping a ride on a spaceship with the Heaven’s Gate loonies. Nobody in the minority classes of people deserve anymore help than do the whites. And I have started telling everybody just that, especially the minorities. Suck it up, earn your way, this white guy is tired of carrying your sorry butt.
Posted by at 12:18 AM on November 18
White people today don’t get help from policies such as affirmative action, and hate crime laws are only used to persecute them, not help them.
Could someone please tell me where I would find this “white privilege”?
And as far as it being an enemy of equality, these anti-racists are the enemies of reality.
Posted by at 3:15 AM on November 18
And once we are all ‘equal’ who exactly is going to collect the garbage? (I am not inferring that is a racial position, I’ve done it myself in a all white crew).
Does being equal mean that we must be equal at the BOTTOM of said garbage heap??
Posted by Skip at 4:18 AM on November 18
This has got to be the funniest line in the whole article. The writer is invited to attend a future AR conference where the speakers are not only blunt but honest.
Perhaps the writer should be invited to attend a memorial week end party in Detroit instead.
Posted by Skip at 4:20 AM on November 18
Whites who hate whites are not our people. They may look like us, but they lack awareness that makes us a new people.
The self-haters should be shunned and seen as alien to us. The sooner we realize that we are a different people the soooner will we start properly and righteously defending ourselves and our right to exist.
Posted by Jan at 5:20 AM on November 18
“The charisma of Don Juan” -Tim in Indiana
A reporter once asked Elvis to define and/or explain his charisma, as he had more of it than just about anyone else on earth. His answer was that it was “Christ within…”
Posted by Tim Mc Hugh at 6:28 AM on November 18
I am a racist and proud of it, because all it means is that I believe whites are the world’s superior race. This “fact” is validated by every means know to man to measure human accomplishments. People throw the words “racist” and “racism” around without even knowing what they mean. Here is Webster’s definition of “racism” and as you can see the word never even existed until 1933:
Main Entry: rac·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\
Function: noun
Date: 1933
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racist
Posted by at 8:13 AM on November 18
These people aren’t disturbed or mentally unbalanced . This “white privilege” nonsense is a very,very lucrative racket that has made failed academics like Tim Wise very wealthy.
Wise, a lying hack who totally embarrassed himself in his debate with Jared Taylor, makes over four thousand dollars per speech and gets regular “consulting” work with law firms all for blabbering about the “evils of whiteness”.
Nice work if you can get it.
Posted by Conan at 9:32 AM on November 18
In his book, The Color of Fascism, Professor (of Black Studies) Gerald Horne calls “whiteness” something one “performs.” (In my sixty-four years, I have heard some truly odd notions, but this one has me scratching my head: Who is performing?) This book shows the irony of this country’s leading exponent of Italian Fascism being a light-skinned Black man who passed as White.
Posted by Robert Pinkerton at 9:41 AM on November 18
“Reject the Hate in ’08” was their rally cry at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center near MacArthur Park.”
Anybody here have any idea what “the UCLA Downtown Labor Center” is? Why does a university need a Labor Center? And why is it Downtown near MacArthur Park (an overwhelmingly mestizo area with ZERO whites) when UCLA itself is miles and miles away over on the (white) west side of town?
What exactly this UCLA Downtown Labor Center is and what they get up to, might be something for AmRen to investigate some time. Sounds to me like some sort of “outreach” program to spread left-wing agitation beyond the campus and into the wider world.
Posted by at 10:04 AM on November 18
