"You really went and did it, didn't you?"
I think the cost of Paul Ryan's comments - about black America's supposed "bad culture" - should be added to the nation's reparations bill:
When an 'Arab' or 'Muslim' American kills people in mass they are a 'terrorist'. When a black person shoots someone they are 'thugs'. When a white man commits a mass shooting he is 'mentally ill' or 'sick'.
Whiteness and white privilege are the luxury to be an individual, one whose behavior reflects nothing about white people as a group.
There will be not be a national discussion of a culture of 'white pathology' or how white Americans may have a 'cultural problem' with their young men and gun violence. The news media will not devote extensive time to the 'social problem' of white male violence and mass shootings."
There will be not be a national discussion of a culture of 'white pathology' or how white Americans may have a 'cultural problem' with their young men and gun violence. The news media will not devote extensive time to the 'social problem' of white male violence and mass shootings."
- Chauncey DeVega, noticing the wrong (and wrong-headed) behavior whites consider normal, on We Are Respectable Negroes
Ryan's comments should be added as a visible harm - a cultural continuation of whites hurting blacks - even though whites are now almost completely unaware of what they're doing.
Or are they?
It's mostly women and Republicans.
I mean, seriously, without stressing the point:
TMR can't name many other groups regularly getting away with murder,...
"Dad did it so I can have a pony."
Or are they?
It's mostly women and Republicans.
I mean, seriously, without stressing the point:
TMR can't name many other groups regularly getting away with murder,...
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