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source>>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-point-were-missing-about-bbq-becky-and-her-sisters/2018/10/22/3d228434-d320-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html?utm_term=.c1392639259e
Way more then 4 paragraphs, IMO worth the read
I'm including the parts that were the most important & interesting to me.
snip..."...And yet, something about the viewing experience or at least the hashtag packaging of it was starting to bother me. So I called a few people to talk through why.
Its a really gendered response, offers Charles McKinney, a professor of history and Africana studies at Rhodes College. When white men engage in this activity, very rarely do we give them cutesey nicknames, he notes, with exception to the rare #CouponCarl. Theres an insipid inclination to downplay these instances when the perpetrators are white women.
McKinneys argument is that these incidents arent, generally, women simply being dopey or clueless. Theyre examples of racism, and the way that people of color can be harassed while going about their daily lives."
snip..."A minimizing of the profound power that white women have had in Americas racial history from the false accusation by Carolyn Bryant Donham that led to Emmett Tills brutal killing, to the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five, which resulted in innocent boys spending years in prison.
In the post-Civil War South, white women were segregations constant gardners, as Elizabeth McRae writes in a new book about the politics of white supremacy. White women built the monuments to Confederate generals; white women harassed black children as they tried to integrate schools. Racist white men burned crosses and performed lynchings, but their rationale was often tied up in a twisted logic related to protecting the purity of white women.,"
sigh. These f-ed up white racist women are so f-ing dangerous in so many ways
violetpastille
(1,483 posts)#hillarythornton
#teresakline
And most of all
#amberguyger
We should make them live in the reality they have created.
irisblue
(32,975 posts)Golf Cart Gail?
violetpastille
(1,483 posts)I'll just call her
#needstogetoffthegolfcartandwalk
as a placeholder.