stuff white people do

The ways of white folks, I mean, some white folks . . . (Langston Hughes)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

whiten their names

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I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me, other than how hairy I am. -- Georgios Panayioutous (a.k.a., George Mi...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

refuse to see racism when non-white people point it out

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Hi, My name is Simone and I just found your blog a few days ago. I wanted to say that I really like the way you write and the way you thin...
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Monday, November 2, 2009

claim they know more about something "black" than black people themselves do

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This guest post (which also appears here ) is by Renee, who blogs at Womanist Musings . Renee lives in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, and s...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

homogenize people from over fifty different countries into one group: "africans"

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Yesterday, I was talking to a white friend -- a friend who is not at all clueless about her common white tendencies -- about a party she...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

assume that black women like michelle obama must be covering

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When white people meet a person of color who doesn't match the stereotypes in their heads and hearts about that kind of person of color,...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

fail to see how racism harms white people

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The white community's first racial victim is its own child. -- Thandeka These days, fewer and fewer white people think that non-wh...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

point out that they've never owned slaves

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This is a guest post by Nikki, who blogs at Irene's Daughters , along with Kate and Cayce. This post is part of their series on common w...
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Monday, October 26, 2009

try to speed up hispanic assimilation

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Isn't it something how America still takes pride in being a "melting pot," a nation that draws strength from having such a ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

suddenly get interested in non-white people whenever halloween comes around

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I think it's strange how whenever Halloween comes around, so many white people suddenly get interested in non-white people. I also think...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

perform in front of anonymous, silent asians

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Q: Why is Shakira white? A: Because she is pretty. -- Wiki Answers The singer/celebrity/pop star Shakira was born in Colombia. Do man...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

still ask that old camouflaging question, "but what about the children?"

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Update: video of Keith Bardwell being interviewed added below Yesterday's news from Louisiana -- about the denial of a marriage lice...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

hate sagging, especially when white guys do it

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This is a guest post by Filthy Grandeur, who blogs eponymously here , where she writes of herself, "I'm a writer still trying to fi...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

ask black men wearing dreads for weed

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The following is a partial transcription of an audio interview of Lull Mengesha by Gus T Renegade. The October 8 interview took place on Ren...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

fail to see how race and gender intersect

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During the comments for the second of two recent posts here, on the difficulty that white people often have with truly listening to non-wh...
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I'm a white guy, trying to find out what that means. Especially the "white" part.
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