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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As soon as you point the white supremacy on DCUM, the white mommies are coming after you. Lady, your bigotry is showing and it ain't pretty.[/quote]

That was a very effective argument in Virginia tonight. [/quote]

And this is why nice white people should read all those Kendi books listed earlier. Not necessarily your kids but the parents.

I am watching nice white moms in our school read these books and talk about it. Some are married to men of color. They want a better world for their kids. As a mom of color it was so nice to see. They didn’t know if it was helping but they come from very white parts of the country. Things they post and learn about will trickle back when the post on FB, when they go visit parents etc.

If you can’t name a black author besides Toni Morrison, James Baldwin or Maya Angelou you are the problem. [/quote]

Many upper class black people, as they stand to benefit the most, make similar arguments, in the vein of emotional blackmail and guilt tripping. "You are part of the problem if... " followed by the hard ask, ranging from entitled to bizarre. "Part of the problem" is a thinly veiled accusation of racism, in this case compounded by an equally horrid accusation of being uncultured since of course many people would have a hard time remembering two or three black authors let alone four. For middle class moms, being an uncultured racist is the worst kind of offence, and they will bend over backwards to prove to the accuser that they are not part of that despised category. At that moment, the accuser is filled with a warm feeling of validation of their social relevance.

I not being able to name four black authors, makes you "part of the problem", then "the problem" is endemic to the entire population of this country, including the vast majority of black folks themselves, and the accusation is meaningless. It doesnt really do much for people living in poverty and lacking access to opportunity, it just denotes upper middle class entitlement.

For the uninitiated, the use of the phrase "nice white people" with its pejorative connotations, needs to be eplained. It made its way into the woke vernacular, via Kendi and DeAngelo books. It is meant to give a false sense of security from accusations of racism, so that the victim thinks to themselves: "I'm white, but I'm actually nice, not like those other whites". Invariably it is followed by a rhetorical twist that proves the contrary. For example, "nice white parents" are exposed as bigots if they dare send they kids to a better school and not to the minority majority neighborhood school that is the product of a failed educational system. For the previous post, one may be awarded the "nice white" title, but it comes with a mandatory reading list.[/quote]

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