Showing posts with label Sarah Palin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarah Palin. Show all posts
Sunday, October 26, 2008
THIS IS YOUR NATION ON WHITE PRIVILEGE
This is also from my friends Facebook Page:
"By Tim Wise [A national anti-racism trainer]
For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who
are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it,
perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol
Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your
family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
or your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black
and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified
as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'f''''n' redneck,'
like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone
messes with you, you'll 'kick their fuckin' ass,' and talk about how
you like to 'shoot shit' for fun, and still be viewed as a
responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather
than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six
years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,
then returned to after making up some coursework at a community
college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to
achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as
unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first
place because of affirmative action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state
with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island
of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people
don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S.
Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means
you're 'untested.'
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under
God' in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for
the founding fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be immediately
disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was
written in the late 1800s and the 'under God' part wasn't added until
the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and
terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you
used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous
and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make
people immediately scared of you.
White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the
Union, and whose motto was 'Alaska first,' and no one questions your
patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your
spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with
her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's
being disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and
the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of
women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end
to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if
you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month
governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in
college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even
agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the
ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made
them give your party a 'second look.'
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being
a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and
merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in
Chicago means you must be corrupt.
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize
George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly
Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian
theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who
say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for
rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good
church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black
pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of
Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign
policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on
black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by
a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you
such a 'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give
one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging
the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a
'light' burden.
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly
allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W.
Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing,
people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is
increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters
aren't sure about that whole 'change' thing. Ya know, it's just too
vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, -
which is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem."
"By Tim Wise [A national anti-racism trainer]
For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who
are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it,
perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol
Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your
family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
or your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black
and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified
as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'f''''n' redneck,'
like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone
messes with you, you'll 'kick their fuckin' ass,' and talk about how
you like to 'shoot shit' for fun, and still be viewed as a
responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather
than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six
years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,
then returned to after making up some coursework at a community
college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to
achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as
unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first
place because of affirmative action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state
with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island
of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people
don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S.
Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means
you're 'untested.'
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under
God' in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for
the founding fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be immediately
disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was
written in the late 1800s and the 'under God' part wasn't added until
the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and
terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you
used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous
and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make
people immediately scared of you.
White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the
Union, and whose motto was 'Alaska first,' and no one questions your
patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your
spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with
her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's
being disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and
the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of
women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end
to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if
you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month
governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in
college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even
agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the
ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made
them give your party a 'second look.'
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being
a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and
merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in
Chicago means you must be corrupt.
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize
George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly
Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian
theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who
say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for
rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good
church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black
pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of
Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign
policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on
black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by
a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you
such a 'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give
one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging
the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a
'light' burden.
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly
allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W.
Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing,
people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is
increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters
aren't sure about that whole 'change' thing. Ya know, it's just too
vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, -
which is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem."
Flip the Script!
The following is from a Facebook note of a firend I graduated from high school with, her name is Kiera and I liked it so much I had to post it here:
"How Racism Works
What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain were still married to the first woman to whom he said 'I do'?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no
longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to
pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the
election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities
in another when there is a color difference.
You are The Boss... which team would you hire?
With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a
weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises,
bank failures, trillion dollar Federal bailouts of private
corporations, etc.
Educational Background:
Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
PS: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter...."
AMAZING is all I have to say!
"How Racism Works
What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain were still married to the first woman to whom he said 'I do'?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no
longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to
pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the
election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities
in another when there is a color difference.
You are The Boss... which team would you hire?
With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a
weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises,
bank failures, trillion dollar Federal bailouts of private
corporations, etc.
Educational Background:
Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire ?
PS: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter...."
AMAZING is all I have to say!
Sexism vs. Racism
As I was watching MSNBC this afternoon, they interviewed a couple of women, both democrat and republican, and most of them said that the news media (that "liberal media elite") was being unfair and sexist toward Sarah Palin. In addition to this, at a Palin rally in Florida today Elizabeth Hasselbeck (co-host of The View) stated this about the reports on Palin's clothing, “Now, with everything going on in the world, seems a bit odd,” Hasselbeck said. “But let me tell you, this is deliberately sexist.”
First off, let me just state that some of the treatment Palin has been getting is a bit sexist, just like when Hilary Clinton was running there were some sexist moments. One example of the sexist treatment Palin has taken is when her daughter was discovered to be pregnant people said instead of pursuing higher office she should be at home taking care of her children. As the son of a single parent I know that a woman can do more than just one thing at a time, and no one would've asked a man a question like that, why isn't Obama taking care of his two daughters, that would be a good question for him.
But, here is my problem, when Palin is questioned about the RNC spending $150,000 on clothing for her (which is more than the cost of Joe the Plumbers house) it's sexist, but when she suggests that Obama doesn't see America "the way WE do," or that he pal's around with terrorist, when we know people think he's Arab, or constantly promotes the fact that this black man is "different than US," and then says nothing about the people at her rallies throwing out racial epithets and threatening her own sound technician (who is a black man), it's not okay to say that she promotes peoples racist fears. The fact that she is all up in arms about sexism, but promotes and feed off of the racist rage of many (not all) of her supporters.
She's not doing it so much now (because it's not working nationally) but they were playing on peoples racist emotions in states like Virginia and Florida and western Pennsylvania. It's the "hockey moms" and "Joe six pack" vs. Barack HUSSEIN Obama, an Arab, Black, Muslim, terrorist, socialist. I mean seriously, who is Joe six Pack, no one in my neighborhood. Furthermore, the only hockey mom's I know where the one's at my all-white high school, and they were terrified to even live next door to a black family.
So, basically all I'm saying is people who live in a glass house shouldn't throw stones, because just like she has no sympathy or seemingly no care for the racism that has been thrown Obama'a way (which she has been egging on) she shouldn't expect anyone to have sympathy for the sexism that's being thrown her way.
First off, let me just state that some of the treatment Palin has been getting is a bit sexist, just like when Hilary Clinton was running there were some sexist moments. One example of the sexist treatment Palin has taken is when her daughter was discovered to be pregnant people said instead of pursuing higher office she should be at home taking care of her children. As the son of a single parent I know that a woman can do more than just one thing at a time, and no one would've asked a man a question like that, why isn't Obama taking care of his two daughters, that would be a good question for him.
But, here is my problem, when Palin is questioned about the RNC spending $150,000 on clothing for her (which is more than the cost of Joe the Plumbers house) it's sexist, but when she suggests that Obama doesn't see America "the way WE do," or that he pal's around with terrorist, when we know people think he's Arab, or constantly promotes the fact that this black man is "different than US," and then says nothing about the people at her rallies throwing out racial epithets and threatening her own sound technician (who is a black man), it's not okay to say that she promotes peoples racist fears. The fact that she is all up in arms about sexism, but promotes and feed off of the racist rage of many (not all) of her supporters.
She's not doing it so much now (because it's not working nationally) but they were playing on peoples racist emotions in states like Virginia and Florida and western Pennsylvania. It's the "hockey moms" and "Joe six pack" vs. Barack HUSSEIN Obama, an Arab, Black, Muslim, terrorist, socialist. I mean seriously, who is Joe six Pack, no one in my neighborhood. Furthermore, the only hockey mom's I know where the one's at my all-white high school, and they were terrified to even live next door to a black family.
So, basically all I'm saying is people who live in a glass house shouldn't throw stones, because just like she has no sympathy or seemingly no care for the racism that has been thrown Obama'a way (which she has been egging on) she shouldn't expect anyone to have sympathy for the sexism that's being thrown her way.
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