{"id":5390,"date":"2016-09-28T19:42:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T01:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2016-09-28T19:46:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T01:46:59","slug":"on-privilege-and-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2016\/09\/on-privilege-and-pride.html","title":{"rendered":"On privilege and pride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Let\u2019s think about the concept of \u201cpride,\u201d shall we?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re white, the notion of having pride in one\u2019s race\/ethnicity is a big no-no. \u00a0\u201cWhite Pride\u201d is the province of the KKK and neo-Nazis, after all.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a POC, of whatever C, not only is ethnic\/racial pride A-OK, but, we\u2019re told, it\u2019s pretty much a necessity. \u00a0No, I\u2019m not going to dig up links, but you know as well as I do that they\u2019re out there: \u00a0the idea that, for a COC (child of color) to do well, it\u2019s necessary, not just to be neutral, rather than embarrassed about one\u2019s ethnic heritage\/cultural background\/race, but to take pride in it.<\/p>\n

So what happens? \u00a0Black Pride, Hispanic Pride, Asian Pride, etc. \u00a0And celebrations of culture ranging from African drums to Mexican folk dance to Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n

And what about whites?<\/p>\n

They are told to \u201ccheck their privilege.\u201d \u00a0In the university setting, at least, told that to be white means to be a perpetrator, obliged as penance to defer to the minorities in their midst. \u00a0To constantly be sure they aren\u2019t saying or doing anything racist, whether intentionally or unintentionally. \u00a0And there\u2019s a minefield of \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d on the one hand and \u201ccultural imperialism\u201d on the other.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an odd little bit from The Daily Beast<\/a>, about Trump and the question of whether or not he is a racist:<\/p>\n

What Trump will never admit is that he likes being white. That he knows the opportunities afforded to him as the white son of a wealthy construction contractor\u2014after Clinton noted he started off in business with a $14 million gift from his father, he protested, \u201cmy father gave me a very small loan\u201d\u2014are not open to the black and brown children living in poor neighborhoods in Baltimore, Chicago, or Atlanta. He knows that race and wealth matter, that his own path would have been harder, even with such a huge loan, if he had been black. Trump may not recognize his own bigotry, but he knows he would never trade places with my brothers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you \u201clike being white\u201d\/or \u201clike being [whatever race\/ethnicity you are]\u201d? \u00a0Does it make you a bigot, or merely someone comfortable in their own skin?<\/p>\n

What is a POP (that\u2019s Person of Pallor, for those not up on their ironic, anti-PC terminology) to do?<\/p>\n

Some whites have decided to \u201ccreate\u201d a culture\/ethnicity for themselves using the Confederate flag, the Dukes of Hazard General Lee, and the like. \u00a0Clearly that\u2019s not the right path forward, but you can understand the impulse, can\u2019t you? \u2014 the desire to claim an \u201cidentity\u201d for themselves, and to \u201cbelong to a group\u201d in a way that, we\u2019re told in the context of ethnic minorities at least, is a human need.<\/p>\n

Can this impulse be steered into a better alternative? \u00a0And if so, what would it look like?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s think about the concept of \u201cpride,\u201d shall we? If you\u2019re white, the notion of having pride in one\u2019s race\/ethnicity is a big no-no. \u00a0\u201cWhite Pride\u201d is the province of the KKK and neo-Nazis, after all. If you\u2019re a POC, of whatever C, not only is ethnic\/racial pride A-OK, but, we\u2019re told, it\u2019s pretty much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[394,45],"class_list":["post-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-identity","tag-racism"],"yoast_head":"\nOn privilege and pride<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Let's think about the concept of "pride," shall we? 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