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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[AngelofJustize]

@PaleBunnyInfidel

I don't hate blacks

[groundpounder35]

@Aresolar690 Yeah right because you have seen every Hieroglyph. A few egyptians were white only after euro invasions. The 1st illegal aliens, & only after egypts heyday around the 20th dynasty. What whites can't understand is how did great societies exist before white existence? You were the last to evolve, the last to learn civility, the last to write a language, and the1st to go against mother nature, the 1st to mass murder, the 1st people to build and use a "wmd."

[Aresolar690]

@PaleBunnyInfidel What was my comment? I know the ancient Egyptians weren't black, just look at how they portrayed themselves on Hierogylphs, they clearly weren't Nubian at all. And yeah I know the Greeks were white, but are no longer, what with the Arab and Turkish influences. But I've never heard of blonde mummies have to look that one up. Don't think I'm some kinda self-hating white man, I'm proud of who I am.

[Catbubba]

just saying, this is the 21 first century, Professors like Robert Jenson are educating us. Just open up our eyes and minds and listen, be enlighten.

[doctorw2]

@sarafranco100 i agree with all that.

[sarafranco100]

@doctorw2 arabs are Black. So Is Everyone Else The First Man Was Created in Africa So That Makes Us All Black But If You Really Wanna Get Real Scientifically Speaking There Is No Race Race Is Nothing More Then a Social Construct Dating Back From The 1600s To Devide People And To Make Others Feel More "Superior " Then Their Other Fellow Humans Simply Because The Melanin Count In Their Skin Is Lesser then Others Which Makes Their Skin Light And Others Dark So To Put It Nicely Racism is insanity.

[doctorw2]

@PaleBunnyInfidel i dont understand why people have this satanic hatred for blacks these people may have some social or character flaws or diffrences but, on the whole they are not a threat to white people they are trying to make a better life for themselves arabs and asians on the other hand want to gain control and dominiance over europe with their own culture but, i dont see whites hating them or calling them names you know why becuase they have money.

[doctorw2]

@PaleBunnyInfidel all of europe is still white idiot i dont see any shortage of white people your eyes must be fucked up maybe last time i checked i see nothing but a sea of white people at the football games and everywhere else. stop race baiting ok becuase your making yourself look like an ignorant twat.

[doctorw2]

@PaleBunnyInfidel no your taking a piss mate most of the people in morocco are arabs very few blacks most of africa is comprised of arabs,europeans, and south asians and these people are displacing the native african population especialy the arab muslims. sweden is still full of white people last time i was there i probably saw a few black immigrants and a lot of middle eastern ones but, the country is still comprised of native swedes. you are blowing things out of proportion.

[Darkangle25uk]

@PaleBunnyInfidel I was going to give an educated response, but I'm not sure you would understand really... your response already conveys your lack of intellect and culture... It's a shame really that this world still have knuckle dragging racist hicks like you, otherwise humanity would be able to go on with life peacefully. I suppose you're the patriotic type who supports those who enter (divide and conquer) other countries without due cause? dumb shit, get a book or something...