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In reply to the discussion: Tim Wise: Race-Talk is a Language White Folks Need to Learn [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)anti-racism heart, to talk what's being called "race talk" without slipping into racism. And the humility to admit the universality of bias so we don't fool ourselves into imagining that "my people' can have a whole special way of talking about another race without racism.
Reversing the races before postings, or while reading, can be revealing.
Sure, white people should be able to listen to black people of good heart discussing white people to understand how they feel, without taking offense where none is meant. Understanding's good.
But still, reverse Tim Wise's races and you get a damned funny notion that blacks should learn the "broad and symbolic" race language developed by white people to "talk shit' about black people so they can better understand and appreciate what white people mean -- for the important goal of learning more about themselves.
Gee, wonder how that would fly in The Root.