Last week, Twitchy took its readers to school with “Resurrecting Slavery” author Crystal Marie Fleming, who taught us that “I condemn white supremacy” is the racist’s new “I’m not racist.”
It’s now another week and time for another class from Fleming; however, this time we have an anxious participant ready to answer.
Question for whites interested in challenging white supremacy: What's in it for you? Do you have a personal stake in ending systemic racism?
— Crystal Marie Fleming (@alwaystheself) October 25, 2017
Those who already see themselves as "doing the work" or those who want to join anti-racist struggles: What's motivating you?
— Crystal Marie Fleming (@alwaystheself) October 25, 2017
Has your life improved from challenging white racism and learning from anti-racist people of color? If so, how?
— Crystal Marie Fleming (@alwaystheself) October 25, 2017
I often see followers #onhere draw links between white racism and other forms of domination. Does anti-racism help you "connect the dots"?
— Crystal Marie Fleming (@alwaystheself) October 25, 2017
For those who have lost family and friends for challenging white racism: How do you cope?
— Crystal Marie Fleming (@alwaystheself) October 25, 2017
How do you cope? Fortunately, “White Lies” author and sociologist Jessie Daniels was online to lead the discussion on what to do when your sanctimonious and self-serving social justice warfare has left you without any friends.
You have to build new worlds for yourself, with people who are also engaged in the work someway, somehow. For me: partner, friends, church. https://t.co/a2Iu5MB4ir
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
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Part of what I've learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy,
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
both materially, in terms of transfer of wealth (e.g., those stats on net wealth disparities which reflect passing down housing wealth) +
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
ideologically, in terms of the outright worship of "the sanctity of the family" which pervades pop culture.
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
I mean, if you're a white person who says they're engaged in dismantling white supremacy, but +
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
you're forming a white family + reproducing white children that "you want the best for" – how is that helping + not part of the problem?
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
Hold up … If you’re a white person and having children for whom you want the best … how are you not part of the problem?
if you're white + forming a family w/ multiracial children +not dealing w/ your own racism or systemic white supremacy, how's that helping?
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
There used to be a marxist-feminist critique of The Family as an inherently conservative force in society (e.g., Barrett + McIntosh),
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
but that seems to hv fallen out of favor (I blame marriage equality fight), but it's an important critique for talking abt white supremacy.
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
One of the threads running through the Picca+Feagin book @alwaystheself tweeted out, is about the protection of (white) "family".
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
White people are afraid of hurting their family's feelings if they confront them about racism. And, afraid of losing out materially.
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
And then there's a whole ideological apparatus (e.g., "This is Us") to justify how f-cking sacred the family is. "Nothing's more important"
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
Until white people are ready to confront their own family's racism + participation in systemic white supremacy, it's not getting dismantled.
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
Beyond just calling out interpersonal racism, white people who want to be engaged in the work need to ask themselves about housing wealth.
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
White people: do you own your home? When you die, where's wealth in that house going? If it's to your children, you're reproducing ineQ
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
This sounds awfully familiar. In fact, it was just August when the leader of Black Lives Matters of Louisville encouraged white people to “give up the home you own to a black or brown family,” “will your property to a black or brown family,” and budget “so you can donate to black funds for land purchasing.”
Same w/ educ ineQ. Schools in US are funding through property taxes, which ensures racial segregation continues. //fin #ishouldbewriting
— @JessieNYC (@JessieNYC) October 25, 2017
Sis put all these tweets in one of your many pubs ?
— Crystal Marie Fleming (@alwaystheself) October 25, 2017
No need … we just compiled them all here for class discussion.
Trump's gonna win again https://t.co/BIl3aM1mYu
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 28, 2017
Weird how an "expert" in #racism can be so oblivious to her own racism.
— ن Badgering (@4588fhyd) October 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/YeyoZa/status/924318319498485760
Also a direct quote from her: "the white nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy" #ThesePeopleAreNuts https://t.co/uNMDxwyLK8
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) October 28, 2017
Wait… so me being white, and with a white wife and four beautiful white children, this means I am supporting white supremacy?
— The Funcle ?? (@WowBisho) October 28, 2017
Yes.
So what the world needs is more dysfunctional nuclear families?
— George Rundle DELCON (@GeorgeRundle707) October 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/IanMacDonald/status/924393324538146816
So because we are white, we are supposed to hope our kids fail miserably and spend their lives apologizing for being white? Got it. ?????
— Rhonda Osman (@OsmanRhonda) October 28, 2017
— 13 Tactical (@13_Tactical) October 28, 2017
This rhetoric is why you're seeing more rise of "white nationalism"
It in no way justifies it but it pushes people to such extremes https://t.co/qj75HJocZK
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) October 28, 2017
OMG. It'll be genocide next for the good of the world
— Craig Regan (@FlyingSquad63) October 28, 2017
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 20, 2017
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