"Struggling with Privilege"

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Sunday July 19, 2015 · 12:06 PM PDT

2015/07/19 · 12:06

Lately I've been seeing a host of fb and blog posts from white progressives about how they're "struggling with their privilege," and it finally dawned on me why this shit bothers me so much. Two things: first, it's humble bragging, "Look how great I am that I'm doing this work to deal with my privilege;" and second, it makes structural inequality about whites again.

snpsmom

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Saturday July 13, 2013 · 7:26 PM PDT

2013/07/13 · 19:26

This is worse. Now there are scores more who are complict.

At the time of Trayvon's murder I was teaching a poetry workshop at our county correctional facility. I wrote a poem about it, but never posted it because it seemed too soon. Here it is, by way of apology from an old white woman who never had to have "the talk" with her son.

Young men breathing while black

We don't have to tell you

in your polished wingtips
and new blue suit,
that if you run
our pulse thrums in our throats
and twitches our trigger fingers.
Or that even if you are a CEO
on his way to a business meeting,
we suspect you
stole whatever it is you carry.

After your seven-year-old mind was blown
by some clown who spewed hate
all over you like spittle from his lips,
Your mother explained it. So

you knew,
even before your father told you --
that if a boy could be harangued
while Snow White held his hand,
then nowhere or when is ever safe
and at some points, you will surely be accosted
on your own brick-sided street.

You knew
before your uncle told you,
that even if you are returning home
from the corner store, or the battlefield,
slumped over, eyes cast down
unsassy with the weight of our suspicions
sagging from your shoulders --

we might still shoot you.

snpsmom

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Tuesday March 22, 2011 · 4:42 AM PDT

2011/03/22 · 04:42

The student association at Saginaw Valley State University is sending buses full of students to a rally at the Capital to protest Governor Rick Snyder's proposed cuts to education. I'm going and I need your help with my sign.

snpsmom

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 1:17 PM PDT

2010/04/13 · 13:17

I used to like dKos a lot better when it was about the issues.

snpsmom

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Saturday April 10, 2010 · 4:30 PM PDT

2010/04/10 · 16:30

Checked out Drudge today (I know, I know) and found this headline: MARK LEVIN: Obama 'Closest Thing to Dictator We've Ever Had'...follwed the link to Mark Levin's website and:

snpsmom

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 4:26 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 16:26

Today, I learned that my cousin (whose father was as progressive as they come) is a tea partier. In response to a post I made about all the good things the government does, he posted the following:

snpsmom

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Sunday February 28, 2010 · 11:04 AM PST

2010/02/28 · 11:04

Today Mitch McConnel predicted zero Republican support for health care reform so...

snpsmom

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Tuesday December 08, 2009 · 11:12 AM PST

2009/12/08 · 11:12

Considering the alarming increase in tolerance for torture in the U.S., I thought it might be interesting to revisit Alan Dershowitz's call for torture warrants to be used in the case of a ticking bomb. What follows is a paper I wrote for my ethics class, refuting Dershowitz's assessment that the use of torture warrants would result in minimizing the use of torture.
I confess to being an abolitionist about torture, but that is a very difficult argument to make to those true believers that think torture works. This is my first philosophy paper and my first diary, so please, be kind.

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Mark Levin: Integrity and Credibility = 0

My Cousin is a Tea Partier!

Since the GOP wants to start over, let's have single payer!

Against Torture Warrants