The Double Terror of Being Black
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Tragically, white people are still dying of racist whiteness and blaming their deaths on Black and Latino people, who are dying at even higher rates from the same racist whiteness—its structural violence, its unending terror, its vicious neglect.
I know some white people, but I don't think I know any who are dying of racist whiteness.
To be honest, I think there might be some disinformation in that story.
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Didn't read the whole article.
I don't think it's possible to determine such a position objectively. The country is too big, there are too many people. and god knows there are too many "truths". Maybe what the author says is true, maybe it isn't.
We can reasonably say that Americans are too quick to murder. That's about it.
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@Copper said in The Double Terror of Being Black:
Tragically, white people are still dying of racist whiteness and blaming their deaths on Black and Latino people, who are dying at even higher rates from the same racist whiteness—its structural violence, its unending terror, its vicious neglect.
I know some white people, but I don't think I know any who are dying of racist whiteness.
To be honest, I think there might be some disinformation in that story.
I have white friends. I will ask them.
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I think Mik's got it.
Reminds me of an old Lab Manager I knew by nickname of "Dot". Dot stood all of 4'10" tall and had a fiery temper. Always dressed to the nines with a starched white lab coat, she was famous for once driving a resident out of the lab for dropping and breaking an expensive microscope, said driving being done by beating on the doc's back with her high-heeled shoe.
But Dot could be led. She had two friends in the lab. Two older female techs that must have started in the lab when they were laying the brick for the building. Anyway, to them everything was either horrible or pitiful. Nothing was done right.
"Dot, it's horrible". "Dot, it's pitiful!". "Horrible!" "Pitiful!". "Horrible!" "Pitiful!'
Until one fine morning, I heard the sound of breaking glass as Dot threw a beaker against the wall and loudly proclaimed, "Goddammit! It's horrible in this lab! It's pitiful! Y'all WILL change!"
Thing was, it wasn't horible. Or pitiful. It was pretty much the same as it had always been, too much work, too little staff and a make-do-with-anything attitude, that made us extremely hard-working and innovative.
But if all you ever hear is that the situation is horrible and pitiful, that's what you think the situation is.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
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