"How violent the organizers and Bernie Sanders was." BLM activist speaks

[daredtowork]

94. This is where I think everyone needs to do some research

I don't think I'm qualified yet to define the term, but I do think it is a term used in academic discourse and that it's commonly used in African American discussion about oppression. You can google it to see that. I think it's an escalation of discussion about white privilege. When African Americans discuss the social structures that oppress them, they are "white supremacist" structures. "white supremacist liberals" are people in overwhelming progressive cities like Seattle (or Berkeley, where I live) where policy benefits white privilege and supposedly "liberal" citizens don't do anything about the discrimination that benefits them. Berkeley had a 20% African American population in the 1970s. By the year 2000 it was down to 13%. Today 7% and still dropping. Employment discrimination, housing policy, unfairness in education outcomes, and racial profiling in the criminal justice system probably have a lot to do with that.

I wouldn't be surprised if the world class university we host in this City, UC Berkeley (which is ashamed to be struggling to attract African American students - it got down to an all time low of 2% a couple of years ago, not sure what it is now), is itself generating the term "white supremacist society" in its African American and/or Ethnic studies department. All their students have to do is step out the door and look around at the City around them and see an example of an ostensibly "liberal" city where the political representatives in power could see policy creating African American exodus for years but did not care to make any changes, because the current policy benefited them. That is "white supremacist liberals".

The idea of "white fragility" that has been posted on DU is when some African Americans hurl themselves into white space, opt out of following the rules set by the "white supremacist society" (since the rules only benefit said white supremacist society) and speak truth to power: outrage ensues. One definition of "sipping on white tears" include when a white person manufactures outrage over perceived offenses in order to avoid talking about what's at issue - racism. We don't like when we can't define the perception of the other. But that's how we are being perceived: this is what it is.