http://whiteprivilege.com Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:52:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is not often in this country, even on public radio, that we hear frank and lucid talk about the structural forces that created and continue to maintain black ghettos in the United States. Sometimes, we seem too steeped in individualist rhetoric and moralistic judgements to talk about and begin ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/21/segregation-and-spirituality/ a prayer band every thing you ever paid for you ever worked on you ever received every thing you ever gave away you ever held on to you ever forgot about every single thing is one of every single thing and all things are gone every thing i can think to do to say i feel is buoyant every thing is below water every thing is ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/13/suheir-hammad-prayer-band/ What would it take to truly repair the lives of African Americans, other peoples of color, and poor people after Katrina? Could this be an opportunity to create a model for society as it could be? A racially just society? What about the native peoples who preceded Europeans ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/13/racially-just-responses-to-katrina/ “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.” — President Bush, on “Good Morning America,” Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina “What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/12/republicans-in-their-own-words/ Mukoma Wa Ngugi writes an interesting piece examining possible reasons why “[t]he devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina is being compared to disasters in the “Third World”.” He writes that: The American citizen has been stewing in nationalism, manifest destiny and the myth of the democratic society that errors but never ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/11/katrina-language-and-the-third-world/ Thulani Davis, in “Unbearable Crime on the Mississippi” at BlackCommentator.com, 9/8/05, draws on Jesse Jackson’s witness to the devastation as looking into the bottom of a slave ship. The importance of his metaphor–and other poetry that conveys the loss of one’s family along side the recognition that help is ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/10/temp/ As reported today by Christopher Cooper in the Wall Street Journal, rich white people are as determined as ever to own, control, and rebuild New Orleans in their own image. While a numerical minority in a city ostensibly committed to democracy, rich white people are sitting relatively high and pretty ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/08/white-people-own-new-orleans/ In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it strikes me that as a nation, the U.S. still isn’t very good about talking about issues of race and class, and more to the point, isn’t very good talking about structures and policies and their impact on people’s lives. We are sometimes good ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/08/racism-and-katrina/ With a sickening callousness equal to that of the former French queen’s, note the mother of the president’s response to visiting the Astrodome excerpted from “Barbara Bush: Relocation is “‘Working Very Well For Them,’” DemocracyNow.org, 9/6/05 and “Barbara Bush Makes Hurricane Gaff“, TVNew Zealand, TVNZ.CO.NZ, 9/7/05 While the federal government has ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/06/barbara-bush-or-marie-antoinette/ During a live, televised charity for Katrina victims, a bit of inconvenient truth somehow managed to escape — Kanye West, who’s rather a hip-hop genius, went way, way off the script, indicting the slowness of official response to the victims of Katrina, including the racist portrayal of African Americans in ... http://whiteprivilege.com/2005/09/06/kanye-west-and-george-bush/