Article on Racism on the Left by Tim Wise

[AspenRose]

"With Friends Like These, Who Needs Glenn Beck? Racism and White Privilege on the Liberal-Left"


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x554444

http://www.timwise.org/2010/08/with-friends-like-these-who-needs-glenn-beck-racism-and-white-privilege-on-the-liberal-left/

[Brewman_Jax]

1. Robert Jensen made a similar assertion

found here at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/whatwhitepeoplefear.htm

Robert is much more concise about the relative stances--the RW doesn't like anyone non-white, the LW will agree to multiculturalism and diversity, as long as white remains the norm.

[Kweli4Real]

2. But for the majority of DUers ...

and white people in general, to fully understand what Wise (and Jensen) is saying would require a level of intellectual and emotional honesty that seems to but wholly lacking.