How to Protest Without Offending White People

[WhiskeyGrinder]

http://www.theroot.com/how-to-protest-without-offending-white-people-1818770022

Don’t Say ‘White’

I have no idea why, but white people hate it when anyone uses the phrase “white people,” because, for some reason, they consider it a pejorative. When protesting police brutality, education inequality, unfair housing practices or anything else, you must be careful not to “make it all about race”—even if the thing you’re protesting is all about race.

Refer to racism as a “social issue.” Instead of slinging the phrase “white supremacy” around all willy-nilly, you can instead refer to it as “structural inequality.” If your “underprivileged” child has been fenced into a poorly funded educational system, call it an “inner-city school.”

Uttering the words “white people” only serves as a reminder of their historic ties to oppression, which can only be negated by their instinctual regurgitation of the preamble to all white excuses: “Not all white people ...” Even if you make your protest about a “societal issue” that’s not about race, you still shouldn’t expect them to join in or approve.

They already heard you say “white people.”

It goes on. Good stuff.

[underpants]

1. Very good.

[democratisphere]

2. No need to whitewash words and actions.

Protest on. It is your right.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Didn't you read it??

Don't say "white"!

[democratisphere]

5. Sorry. No need to "launder" words and actions.

Maybe the "Tide" will reside.

[Turn CO Blue]

8. Clearly you didn't read to the end. The writer is being facetious in the beginning

then he's humorous in the middle, and states the cynical truth at the end using historical examples of black protest and white disapproval of each method, timing, and event. He writes that there is no means of protesting, and there never was, where white people will approve, except NOT protesting at all. He means quite the opposite of what he states "not" to do.

[HughBeaumont]

4. I guess it boils down to "you can't".

My poster at the Inauguration said "America is the country that ate paste in first grade". 2016 was an IQ test we failed miserably.

I didn't make these idiots stupid enough to think "President Donald Trump" was a great idea. The "Party of Personal Responsibility" should maybe try taking some.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[GeorgeGist]

7. White assholes, OK?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. .

[brush]

10. Thanks, WhiskeyGrinder. The article is well worth a read.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

Lots of great reads at The Root.

[Gothmog]

12. Trump's base is a bunch of racists

[hunter]

13. Here's one that's always good for argument, even here on DU...

Be Invisible

White people...(nope, strike that)... The average American doesn’t mind protest ... as long as he or she can’t see it. You absolutely have the constitutional right to feel a little morose whenever your son, neighbor or fellow citizen is shot, choked, beaten or discriminated against—as long as you don’t obstruct the weekend Caucasian commute to the mall to purchase yoga pants. Why should they have to think about the disproportionate, continual murder of black people when they’re trying to get half-price cargo shorts at the Gap? That’s just un-American.

And whenever these road-blocking protests occur, the TV News ALWAYS manages to interview the single black guy with the strong inner-city or rural southern accent who was inconvenienced on his drive to work at some low end auto body shop, garbage transfer station, or similar honest hard working black guy job.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. "They're not buiding any sympathy! They're not helping their cause!"

Blah, blah, blah...

[hunter]

15. And shouldn't they be working?

How do they have time to protest?

[Amimnoch]

16. so spot on.

[Blue_Tires]

17. brilliant...

[n2doc]

18. As Matt Bors noted:

[Duppers]

19. Oh wow! That was good!

[CCExile]

20. There really is only one way...

Become a white person. I've always preferred to be called a "honkie", but that's just me.

[Bradical79]

21. I prefer to be called a melanin deficient flag humper -nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Interesting how many white snowflakes there are. . . . nt

[haele]

25. And they all seem to want to live in the same Pleasantville snowglobe.

The real world is just too big and scary for them. Too many people who aren't like them...and so many other things to deal with.

Better draw those boundaries a little closer and let the rest of the world impact them on TV, so they can just change the channel if they get uncomfortable.

Haele

[marylandblue]

26. They don't paint picket fences white for nothing

[elias7]

30. And they love their watermelon & fried chicken

[IronLionZion]

23. David Duke and his ilk use the term European-American

since many light skinned minorities could accidentally pass for white these days, like some Latinos and Middle Eastern.

[marylandblue]

27. Serious question

Does Duke think Europe includes Spain and Italy?

[IronLionZion]

28. Their groups started accepting southern Europeans recently

as a way to help unite the whites against everyone else. But Spanish and Italians and Greeks and others will be sent to the camps in round 2. Eventually the Anglos and Saxons will turn on each other and there will be no one left.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

24. Afternoon kick.

[Deuce]

29. Yep...