My jaw dropped.
Ok, fine. But what about that white choir that has worked to stand in heart, in thought, in deed, and in practice all their life? Of course it is only white folks like that, the choir, who I might guess, would care enough to feel uncomfortable. The white politicians, etc., who could create institutional change feel nothing. They will not be uncomfortable. The “others,” “those people” who want to stay among a small exclusive group, do not read me, nor hear people like me — those of us who want all people to care about each other, or leave each other alone, and stop hurting each other – or something. The folks who should have something to feel uncomfortable about have no clue how others live, and so there is nothing for them to have discomfort about. They cannot be reached – they live in their world. But this is the same the world over. Oh! Gasp!
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22make+some+white+people+uncomfortable%22&oq=%22make+some+white+people+uncomfortable%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.9479j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
My jaw dropped at the google results, because there was so much pain on the pageful of search engine results. Division.
“…”Rich Benjamin Shares His Journey Through Whitopia as an African …
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/08/a-black-mans-journey-through…/401108/
Aug 12, 2015 – Having African Americans make up just 20 percent of the neighborhood they live in is enough to make some white people uncomfortable.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being – Barry’s Blog
https://blog.westaf.org/2013/03/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-being.html
Mar 18, 2013 – Questions such as this may easily make some white people uncomfortable (even phrased as gently as Roberto has done), and can be seen by …
The argument against black assimilation into white culture – Maneater
https://www.themaneater.com/…/argument-against-black-assimilation-white-culture
Oct 7, 2015 – Why should I hide one of the best pieces I’ve ever written because it’ll make some white people uncomfortable? I admit, there’s a time and …
Tristan Agnauraq on Twitter: “I’m just tired of being spoken over and …
https://twitter.com/tanaiyaak/status/1078082432878833665
Dec 26, 2018 – Let me mix it up and make some white people uncomfortable, give me a mng platform to make people uncomfortable PLEASE. 4:17 PM – 26 …
Sara Luterman on Twitter: “Actually what you’re doing is building a …
https://twitter.com/slooterman/status/1041734402328481794
Sep 17, 2018 – That’s going to make some white people uncomfortable. Those people can either learn to examine their own discomfort or get stuffed. 10:03 AM …
Just Stick To Parenting podcast on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-stick-to-parenting…/id1471452968?ign…
Rating: 5 – 6 votes 5 days ago – In episode #2 of the Just Stick To Parenting podcast, Doyin talks about things that make some white people uncomfortable (namely, …
Essential Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions: A Social …
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0190876891
Nicole Nicotera – 2018 – Social Science
… frustrated about hearing yet another racist microaggression and comments that all White people are the same, it may make some White people uncomfortable, …
The hardship of being black, middle class, educated and culturally …
https://www.lipstickalley.com › Ask Lipstick Alley › Mental Health
Nov 25, 2018 – Plus I am the person who is going to call you out if you say something racist and that will make some white people uncomfortable because I am …
‘
Dear White People’ inames and entertains – The Mercury News
https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/10/…/dear-white-people-inames-and-entertains/
Oct 22, 2014 – The lm will, of course, make some white people uncomfortable over the unattering portrayals it delivers. What “Dear White People” illustrates, …”
This started because of an interview I heard on the television. I had 90% sworn off television news since all CNN does is talk about and retweet that man. I keep saying, remember what Roger Stone said: “All Publicity.” Stone paraphrased: not the good publicity, all the publicity – good publicity and especially the bad publicity. He feeds off of it, he feeds off a fight, like Steve Bannon implied in an interview just yesterday.
I rarely have the TV on for noise any more. And even rarer on news, but I had it on, maybe for a lunch break or snack and I heard this black man in a one-on-one interview with… He is a very famous guy, but I did not write down his name, or the exact context and so I have not come up with the interview in a google search. But I believe the interview was about reparations, maybe.
Now, before we move another inch – I am 100% for reparations – period. And as we all know the right wing will win great majorities if this is pushed – there are so many people who have been in line after line after line of give-me-my-due and no one will stand for folks being helped; folks won’t even offer minimal health care much less…
Do not confuse a damn thing I say, that I am not 100% for the just treatment and support, for the future, of all people having not just equality, but all things. The rich have all things, black and white. So instead of folks being divided and conquered – I hope for Quaker-like change for all. And yes, spend money, lots of money. But of course we know this will never happen.
So the guy on TV. He is currently or was formerly the chairman or president or something of one of the African American groups and in answering the question – I think – maybe the question was did he think reparations would happen? Maybe? And I think the way he was answering, was something to the effect of, “No, he did not think they would actually happen – or maybe would it come to a vote even…” But his answer to the question, whatever it was, left me dumbstruck: “…but it would make some white people uncomfortable…”
Who?
I am serious, who?
Me? Yes, it breaks my f-n heart to see the 1960s-Birmingham, Alabama-like white hatred come full circle to rear its ugly head again.
Who will a message like that reach?
White people whom I have known all my life, but I had thought they outgrew the racism, or grew away from nasty white this and that. But these four years shows me little has really changed, the gweilo…
Oops, which story? Which world? Which people?
Wikipedia:
“…Gweilo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Foreign devil” redirects here. For other uses, see Foreign Devil…”
“…Gwái (鬼) means “ghost”, and lóu (佬) means “man”. The term gwáilóu therefore literally means “ghostly man”,[3] and is sometimes translated into English as “foreign devil”.[4] In Chinese, “ghost” can be a derogatory term used as a curse or an insult.[5] The term ghost has also been used to describe other ethnic groups, for example, a 17th-century writer from Canton Qu Dajun wrote that Africans “look like ghosts”, and gwáinòu (Chinese: 鬼奴; literally: ‘ghost slave’) was once used to describe African slaves.[6]…”
Wikipedia tells all about the words and the meanings in different places, and times
“…Although largely considered racist and derogatory by both Cantonese speakers and non-Cantonese people,[7] gwáilóu is sometimes considered to be an acceptable generic racial term for Westerners.[8] Also, some members of the Hong Kong community with European ancestry (particularly those with limited or zero Cantonese fluency) are indifferent to the term.[9] Gwailou has, in some instances, been recognised as simply referring to white foreigners in South East Asia and now appears in the Oxford Dictionary defined as such,[10] although non-Caucasian foreigners are not gwáilóu. While gwáilóu is used by some Cantonese speakers in informal speech, the more polite alternative sāi yàn (西人; ‘Western person’) is now used as well, particularly if the conversation involves a non-Chinese person in order to avoid offense.[11]
However, an increasingly common view is that the term is unacceptable in a modern context. The word is not permitted to be used in Hong Kong media due to the offensive nature of the term as brought up by Hong Kong actors of non-ethnic Chinese background [12] …”
For a woman it is gwaipo and wikipedia tells us of another place and time or another people who also saw and still see differences. The page adds the many words, names used from this root word – for boys and girls and all the names they use in this one language, Cantonese, of their “name,” their “word” for each group of people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweilo
Differences. Words. Words and peoples that mean many things in many places to many different peoples. China or America or even Russia – no love lost among many.
Words do change and evolve, they cannot remain static – the words must change for the society to change. Today the words are expertly used by all sides to hurt and manipulate. All folks have chosen their sides and are immovable. No place to meet for common ground. Just come to the table and make a few people feel uncomfortable.
Today, we have words that seem to be written in stone. I pray we do not get blood out of this stone.
These kinds of words we hear these days are meant to inflame. They are the words used in all publicity and especially the bad. These words are meant to inflame and start the dialogue and have everyone talking about the words.
Some people one might call a f-n goof. But there are many people that one cannot call that effectively. But the description is also wrong – it might feel better to yell out through the TV at some people, “you f-n goof.” But there are so many of them today, it is hard to know which f-n person to call out first. Certainly I should be called out, it is none of my business and yet here I am, words in hand.
Folks discounted these folks too much because they did not have K Street addresses or so it appeared. But they are linked no matter how well disguised or distanced.
Folks said these are nobodies, not politicians and can’t, couldn’t, but they did. These nobodies learned at the knees of the greats like Lee Atwater. We do not have a chance against these words written in stone.
I wish in that interview… (if i could just remember more about it – who he was? etc, so I can get the context correct) He was one of two men, maybe, and I can’t try to guess, for fear of guessing the wrong one, but, an infrequent talking head on the news.) …I wish in that interview, instead of thinking and saying, “…feel uncomfortable…” he had said, “go to wwwDOT let’s fix this…” or something. Anything, but arrogant cynicism, we have enough of that from the top.
I dare not speak. It is none of my business. I still remember first hearing the phrase, must have been the mid-nineties. This was an open gathering of many people, a mingle around the room for drinks and hors d’oeuvres, in Toronto in fact. I walked up to two women and one turned to me and said, “do you mind, we are having a conversation, it’s a black thing.” So it is.
I asked, who? Rich Philanthropists? Was that the answer saying maybe some folks could do things? Sure write checks. I hope.
There are real people here on the ground. There is a grass roots world of people who have no one to lead us. Just because others are meaner and louder and at the top, does not mean we are not here waiting for the right words.
“…The idea that there were once “pure” populations of ancestral Europeans, there since the days of woolly mammoths, has inspired ideologues since well before the Nazis. It has long nourished white racism, and in recent years it has stoked fears about the impact of immigrants: fears that have threatened to rip apart the European Union and roiled politics in the United States…”
Marionetta Strung-Out 