In my experience with two women of African origins whom I "almost married" and their families, and numerous students of color and different background, we all think in terms of color. Some black students I knew well have become leaders in the political and academic communities. At one point with two of them (when they were undergraduates) I felt close enough to observe, "you are racists too!" They laughed at my naiveté. Felt good.
Always best to admit to racism. As with everything, it is good to know what you are talking about. An advice.
We should all take pride in our cultural heritage, provided it does not depend on putting someone else down, but helps us to celebrate what is worthwhile, funny, and uplifting in style or civility or courage. A very few of us, not me, have a real appreciation for the indignity of being considered a slave. Good example is the writing of, say, Ta-Nehisi Coates who has labelled Trump the first White President. A bad example is John Kelly's recent protestation, and re-protestation, the Civil War occurred because of a lack of compromise. Alternatively, one can compare the nurturing quality of Obama's presidency to that of a bullying president as does Jill Filipovic's opinion piece in the Review Section of today's
New York Times, "Trump's Man-Child Army." She realizes, as we all should, white male outrage at what has happened to the less fortunate is understandable, but males used to be venerated (as I did my Dad) for their responsibilities to family, country, and church, as well as their own personal accountability. In her words: "Donald Trump is a new kind of old-school man. In some ways he's a throwback....But he's also a thoroughly modern man-child, the kind of overgrown adolescent you expect to find on internet forums....Trump-style masculinity, in other words, is less John Wayne and more Tucker Max—and a revealing insight into American male anxiety."
Opinion | What Donald Trump Thinks It Takes to Be a Man
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