We tend to identify not with the collective, but with individuals, which then reinforces exclusion. Part of Bloom's argument is that we're not able to literally step outside of ourselves or our subjectivity to become someone else. So what we do is we glom onto those people we identify with.[Grace Halsell] wants to find"authentically black people," so she goes to Mississippi.
John Howard Griffin was weirdly terrified that he wasn't going to return fully to whiteness. He was writing in his diaries about how he's worried that his wife will be sleeping with a black man now, with all these pathologizing ideas about black male sexuality. Ray Sprigle was only seeing what he wanted to see, and he was overly descriptive of black suffering and black pain—not black life.
CodeSwitch 1960’s was a half-century ago. Obselete
CodeSwitch HHHH
CodeSwitch To walk a mile in another's shoes. Empathy. To resonate sympathy.
CodeSwitch For those of you who chose not to read the article, she was not in blackface, she took vitiligo treatment pills to darken her complexion.
CodeSwitch So...she blackfaced? Super cool 👍😎👌 wtf
CodeSwitch So the latest view of being black is from the 1960s....got it
CodeSwitch I thought in the Absurd postmodern world anyone can identify as anything are you saying that is not true.
CodeSwitch Dig deeper, read a book.
CodeSwitch Only white people experience racial injustice in the America of today.
CodeSwitch Is her son Shaun King aka Talcum X?
CodeSwitch Кто виноват в этом?
CodeSwitch From reading this article, it doesn’t sound like the writers who did blackface actually had a lot of empathy. Curiosity, maybe. Curiosity only took them so far, but empathy might have taken them a different path.
CodeSwitch Thank you for this interview with Alisha Gaines and Robin Kelley. Works like this book are far less useful as research and have far less to do with justice or even 'empathy' than they were (still are?) often described as by white liberals.
CodeSwitch It is not easy to understand racism, implicit bias and prejudice till you experience it yourself. My experience as a black person makes it easy to get an appreciation of the experiences of gender minorities but it is never enough RacialEquality
CodeSwitch Sounds familiar
CodeSwitch 1994 Crime Bill. Devastating to the black woman. Socialist democrats created & voted...✅. 2018 President Trump. First Step Act. Stopped the oppression done by the 0bama 'cult'. Racial justice with the stroke of a pen.
CodeSwitch Disguised as in wore blackface?!
CodeSwitch So she was wearing black face, but liberal media still supports her!
CodeSwitch Races cannot have justice, only individuals can receive justice.