Originally posted by Bardock42Its part of the relation ship we have with him that stemmed form back in the comics section where we got to know him. Honestly I didn't know about his veiws of races before hand. though it was pretty easy to figure out his race.
Hey non-existant race person....why does everyone make those lame jokes with his name?
Eh heh... I haven't found any white people who liked Hudlin's work.. its kind of a lame duck way to figure it out but the people who defended hudlin thus far have all been black. Not to say all black people liked his work. just that those who have, are.
Originally posted by debbiejoOn the contrary.
I'm leaving this, it's boring...
Originally posted by Creshosk
Its part of the relation ship we have with him that stemmed form back in the comics section where we got to know him. Honestly I didn't know about his veiws of races before hand. though it was pretty easy to figure out his race.Eh heh... I haven't found any white people who liked Hudlin's work.. its kind of a lame duck way to figure it out but the people who defended hudlin thus far have all been black. Not to say all black people liked his work. just that those who have, are.
Again...focus on "lame"
Whiteness, then, emerged as what we now call a "pan-ethnic" category, as a way of merging a variety of European ethnic populations into a single "race," especially so as to distinguish them from people with whom they had very particular legal and political relations -- Africans, Asians, American Indians -- that were not equal to their relations with one another as whites. But what of America as the great "melting pot"? When we read our history, we come to see that the "melting pot" never included certain darker ingredients, and never produced a substance that was anything but white. Take, for example, that first and most famous essay on the question "What is an American?" In 1781, an immigrant Frenchman turned New York farmer named Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur published his book Letters from an American Farmer. Here are some lines from its most quoted pages:
Originally posted by 2damnloud
It's a funny paradigm, really.We live in a country/ world where your "race"/phenotype defines your nationality, eithnic orgin and culture-- "White race", Black America, white culture, Black Culture.--All completely inseperable.
This is why someone can Sterotype a Black women of African origin with white invented, stereotype meant for American Black women.
This is also why Whites stuggle hard to escape that collective guilt of being racist and Blacks try to escape negative sterotypes invented by whites.
It is because in this society, your skin defines you and groups you in not your language, culture, or nationality.
You can never escape it.
Spot on!
Originally posted by 2damnloudWe've already covered all this in the thread. It more or less is one person's opinions basedon their own experiences.
For white people, race functions as a large ensemble of practices and rules that give white people all sorts of small and large advantages in life. Whiteness is the source of many privileges, which is one reason people have trouble giving it up. It is important to stress that to criticize whiteness is not necessarily to engage in a massive orchestration of guilt. Guilt is often a distracting and mistaken emotion, especially when it comes to race. White people are fond of pointing out that as individuals they have never practiced discrimination, or that their ancestors never owned slaves. White people tend to cast the question of race in terms of guilt in part because of the American ideology of individualism, by which I mean our tendency to want to believe that individuals determine their own destinies and responsibilities. In this sense it is un-American to insist that white Americans benefit every day from their whiteness, whether or not they intend to do so. But that is the reality. Guilt, then, has nothing to do with whiteness in this sense of benefitting from structural racism and built-in privileges. I may not intend anything racial when I apply for a loan, or walk into a store, or hail a cab, or ask for a job -- but in every circumstance my whiteness will play a role in the outcome, however "liberal" or "anti-racist" I imagine myself to be. White men have enormous economic advantages because of the disadvantages faced by women and minorities, no matter what any individual white men may intend. If discrimination means that fewer qualified applicants compete with you for the job, you benefit. You do not have to be a racist to benefit from being white. You just have to look the part.
And damn it 2damnloud. we've been over this, if you're going to copy and paste another person's work you need to indicate.. for pity's sake you didn't even italicize this time.