I think your anger at what Robin said is understandable. I haven't tried to defend her remarks in my post, and I won't in this comment.
What you are saying is that black people are not fully realized humans, and you are collapsing us into caricatures and stereotypes.
I have not said or done this. I am not going to put my hand up to something I haven't done.
But still, what that thought conveyed to me was a fundamental construction of black people as still other, still not fully human as a white person. And, speaking as a POC, I am damn sick of dealing with those assumptions. Because those assumptions lead inevitably to BS. They help to shoulder up stereotypes. And they lead to dehumanizing ways of thinking about us, which in extreme cases can lead to so-called white allies doing some pretty damaging things to the cause.
I believe that what you are saying here are things that all white people ought to think about, and take to heart.
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Date: March 25th, 2009 01:53 am (UTC)I think your anger at what Robin said is understandable. I haven't tried to defend her remarks in my post, and I won't in this comment.
What you are saying is that black people are not fully realized humans, and you are collapsing us into caricatures and stereotypes.
I have not said or done this. I am not going to put my hand up to something I haven't done.
But still, what that thought conveyed to me was a fundamental construction of black people as still other, still not fully human as a white person. And, speaking as a POC, I am damn sick of dealing with those assumptions. Because those assumptions lead inevitably to BS. They help to shoulder up stereotypes. And they lead to dehumanizing ways of thinking about us, which in extreme cases can lead to so-called white allies doing some pretty damaging things to the cause.
I believe that what you are saying here are things that all white people ought to think about, and take to heart.