Robert Jensen The Color of the Race Problem Is White"

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that the question white people so often want to ask black people is, How does it feel to be a problem? This program turns the tables and recognizes some simple facts: Race problems have their roots in a system of white supremacy. White people invented white supremacy. Therefore, the color of the race problem is white. White people are the problem. White people have to ask ourselves: How does it feel to be a problem?




Following the ideas in his book The Heart of Whiteness, Jensen argues that -- even decades after the significant achievements of the civil-rights movement and with an African-American president -- it is still appropriate to describe the United States as a white-supremacist society, in terms of how we think and how we live. Through an analysis of contemporary racial ideology, Jensen presents a framework for critiquing the naturalizing of power and privilege in other arenas of our lives (gender, class, nationality, and ecology). How have we come to accept so easily systems of domination and subordination? How did we become resigned to hierarchy? How can we challenge the unjust and unsustainable nature of the systems in which we live?

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[jasonrj8992]

Is this comment a joke? Is this video a joke too? I feel like I'm being trolled by an entire video and its comment section.

[MrAnti Genocide]

Anti-whites say the 'race problem' will only be solved when MILLIONS of non-whites move into EVERY white country and ONLY white countries and that whites should assimilate with them. This is genocide and those who speak of 'enrichment' or how nasty whites have been are JUSTIFYING genocide. Anti-racist is a code for anti-white.

[DragonettaUnchained]

What kind of adversity do you face on a daily basis?

[Kieran Black]

I have an awesome life; my dream job, my dream girl, great family, plenty of money... And the reason I have all of those things is because I certainly don't blame anyone else for any problems in my life, I take responsibility and I overcome adversity, which is more than I can say for some of the minorities in the US.

[mrRunist]

The colour of the race problem is racism between all races, not just whites being racistic towards for example black people, but also the other way around.

I'm extremely baffled that this is serious and that this video blames all white people. One word which will describe it all: Double standards.

[phillip clay]

the color

[LuciUS Reed]

so being anti racist is being anti white, wow youre a fucking genus lol

[Ann Lovely]

He has a kind of Rod Serling thing going on. I'm turned on and want to be the teacher's pet. Laugh at my statement please, but I really feel this way. Intelligence is a turn on for me. Oh, well. You would be surprised on how a lot of professors don't understand what they are teaching or just don't know how to teach.

[ChickenCupcakeable]

But then when you really think about it ... when you do it that way you'd be no better than them. Though humans tend to not give any fucks (I.E polluting the world) That's not just white people ... that's human nature. So this supremacy complex is human nature within human nature. When you look at it this way Anti-Racist really is anti white because whites are the source of it therefore they must be purged and dealt with.

[ChickenCupcakeable]

So the logical thing would be to get rid of that part of them ... but you can't quite do that without loosing white people as a race. So basically you can choose to genocide them so I would genocide the white people. They basically can't help but do these things it seems that it's their nature and that won't change. Unless you want to go through an extremely tedious process. In the end you can only really genocide them. Mix them in and make them loose that trait.

[ChickenCupcakeable]

Well ... if I put my self in power of an entire people and I got to choose what their action at it's base would be to a problem such as this one is easy. Get rid of the problem, now how we go about doing that is the real thing, ... the problem being white people in power white people having power and keeping it that way. Now if it's simply in the white peoples nature as a whole it will never be solved, it will ALWAYS resurface.

[richbullva]

We need to stop refering to this phenomenon as "RACISM" and call it what it is "WHITE SUPREMACY"!!@!!