Tag Archives: Racism

Homogenized language

February 22, 2024Thursday postsEnds and Beginnings Blog, Race, RacismWilliam Tell

Note that he found the backwoodsmen’s speech unintelligeable.

Homogenized language

Originally posted 07/30/2106.

White-shaming

February 15, 2024National media, Thursday postsRace, Racism, Susan K. Smith, White-shamingWilliam Tell

Why America Stays Stuck

In the future, I may ignore such expressions. For the record, someone’s actually said this in print.

On a CNN program not long ago, one white man, who proudly claimed his belief in white supremacy, had the audacity to say, “I wish we had picked our own cotton.”

So do we. African Americans, I mean. We wish you had picked your own cotton, nursed your own babies, tilled your own fields, built your own roads, and done the scut work in factories that made the Industrial Revolution the “success” that it was.

You didn’t, though. African Americans made this country with their hard labor, as slaves and later as individuals caught up and used in the Convict Leasing programs in this country. …

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Petitions behind Jesse Williams’ BET speech

February 1, 2024Thursday postsBaltimore riots, Freddie Gray, Race, Racism, Stereotypes, Wendy BellWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
Overreaction • Guilty plea in riots arson • The verdicts don’t discredit the demonstrations. •
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Stereotypes have basis in fact.

January 25, 2024Science, Thursday postsA place to begin, Messiah Truth, Race, Racism, StereotypesWilliam Tell

At Messiah Truth, someone remarked:

I think the whole issue of race is downright silly.

My response:

I think it’s a question of what feelings and judgments get attached to it.

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Self-management: A snippet

December 21, 2023The Way of Peace, Thursday postsAcceptance, Choosing feelings, Choosing thoughts, Here - Now - Can, Race, Racism, Resentment, Take things in strideWilliam Tell

It’s happened often enough lately that I may as well tell it.

When I go into the shower room at the shelter, often enough, unhappiness meets me.

The shower stall I prefer isn’t available, and I resent it.

This guy is taking up half the shower bench, and the other half is full also, and I resent it.

This other guy is taking up all kinds of too much time getting dressed, and I resent it.

As soon as I turn my attention to what I will actually do — where to put my clothes, choosing a stall that is available, and getting undressed in itself — all those bad feelings vanish.

Complaining means you’re not doing what you can.

Related: Here – Now – Can

Originally posted 07/01/16.