My wife received a link to this via one of her Facebook friends, Phil Gould former drummer of the hit British band Level 42. In it admitted and proud Redneck Dixon White explains exactly what White Supremacy is and how what we need is White Racial Responsibility from our schools to the boardrooms, to the courtrooms.
NSFW but more than worth a few - or a dozen - F-Bombs.
We shall contrast this with the President's own words on Racism while speaking on a podcast with Marc Maron over the flip.
Now I have to preface this with the fact that Fox & Fools have got a little batshit over the fact that the President uttered the word "nigger" without couching it as the so-called "N-word".
Hasselbeck: “I think many people are wondering if it’s only there that he would say it,” Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck replied. “And not, perhaps, in a State of the Union [address] or more public address if he’s only doing this because he’s in the — quote — podcast, that he felt safe to do it there.”
Uh, no. What the President might say during a frank discussion in Marc Maron's living room, is probably not the same thing he was say in the well of congress Liz, get a grip.
As usual they missed the point, it's not that he said that one particular word unfiltered and unhidden - it's what he said about that word that is important. The choice to utter that word, or not to utter it is not the problem, that is a distraction. Don't confuse the method with the message.
“I always tell young people in particular: ‘Do not say that nothing’s changed when it comes to race in America unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or ’60s or ’70s,'” Obama told Mark Maron, host of the “WTF” podcast.
He said the legacies of slavery and discrimination were still “part of our DNA that’s passed on.”
“We’re not cured of it … and it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘nigger’ in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination.”
“Societies don’t just overnight completely erase everything that happened two to 300 years prior.”
The point being that someone can walk around and never call anyone "Nigger" to their face, the way that Dylann Roof never said it to any of his various black friends, but still have the hatred, fear, revulsion and dehumanization that word represents
deep in their heart. They may not say it out loud, but they can still
act on that hatred.
It's not always about what people say, it's about what they choose to do - or as Dixon notes, their inaction and their unwillingness to do something even when they know what their witnessing is wrong.
14 year-old Grace Stone chose not to idly stand by and not say anything when Sean Toon began to verbally insult her black friends. One of Dylann's friends apparently was so disturbed by one of his drunken racist rants he actually stole his gun from him, only to return it the next day.
These people took action before the violence ultimately erupted. They took a stand.
How many in America - black or white - will take that same stand? And until the do, just what Racism will continue to fester, unconfronted, unacknowledged, below the surface of America's skin?
Vyan