Today\’s quote comes to us from Mandy Hitchcock, who writes for huffingtonpost.com.
In her latest piece, Ms. Hitchcock imbues us with a nugget of information that I have to admit I have never seen or heard before – that White people invented racism. Not that there are White people who engage in racism, mind you – I assume we all know that such White people exist. No, Hitchcock informs us that….well, let me use her quote to tell you:
“While we must absolutely listen to and try to understand and love our black brothers and sisters, while we must absolutely bear witness to the pain that is the black experience in America, while we must absolutely stand in solidarity with black people, racism is a white problem. It was created by white people, and it must be solved by white people. It is not the responsibility of our black brothers and sisters to teach us how not to be racist, to educate us about racism, to explain white privilege to us, to tell us where to begin. It is our job as white people to do that work. It is our job to raise the generation of white children who will end racism in this country.”
Breathtaking. There are so many things wrong with what Mandy Hitchcock wrote that you could use it to create one of those puzzles the magazines used to have, where you got points for how many you could find.
Let\’s go through some of them:
-Racism is not a White problem. It is a problem. One that every race has, Blacks very much included;
-Racism was not created by White people. Racism was created by people. Does Ms. Hitchcock think racism was unknown to the world until White people came up with the idea? How many tribes of people throughout history, regardless of color, have been vanquished simply because they were members of that tribe of people? How many wars are being fought today, by people of various skin colors, over race – and religion, and cultural differences? To claim that White people are the progenitors of racism, as if it never existed at any time, anywhere else, is staggeringly ridiculous;
-And while we\’re on the subject, where does Mandy Hitchcock get off blaming racism on an entire race, as if it is inherently conferred on every person with White skin color? If she thought about this for, oh, maybe a quarter of a second, maybe she\’d realize that her own comment – which stereotypes all Whites based solely on their skin color – is as pure an example of racism as there is.
-The way Ms. Hitchcock writes suggests that Black people are not/cannot be racist. That is too stupid to even bother dealing with. Anyone who believes Black people are incapable of racism is too far gone to even try reasoning with.
Look, I appreciate Mandy Hitchcock\’s intent. In her mind, she is 100% committed to racial equality, and racial equality is certainly a good thing in my book.
But since Hitchcock\’s idea of addressing racism is blaming everything on every White and exonerating every non-White for any racism on their part, her good intent goes straight down the crapper.
I award Mandy Hitchcock Quote Of The Day honors for reminding us – again – of how much racism is spewed by people who profess to be against racism.
