{"id":5790,"date":"2017-08-13T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/?p=5790"},"modified":"2017-08-13T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T18:34:11","slug":"reflections-charlottesville-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2017\/08\/reflections-charlottesville-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on #Charlottesville-Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"confederate<\/a>On August 11 in Charlottesville, Virginia, White Supremacists marched through the city and on the campus of the University of Virginia shouting racist epithets and declaring that \u201cJews will not replace us.\u201d On August 12, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. committed an act of domestic terrorism by driving his car into a crowd of people, killing one person (Heather Heyer) and injuring many more. Below some R3 readers offer reflections on these incidents.<\/em><\/p>\n

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White nationalism is racism. Opposing opportunities for \u201cthose people\u201d in the interest of keeping your country \u201cgreat\u201d is white nationalism.<\/p>\n

It might be time to check what your political priorities are and what your opposition to the efforts of the disenfranchised says about your real beliefs on racial equality.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s happening in Charlottesville is the result of racism running free in the guise of fiscal responsibility and not giving handouts. Your political choices have emboldened them. Your president has sanctioned them.
\nIf you refuse to speak against them and put your vote where your mouth is, you have sanctioned them, too.-Andrea Terry<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

White Supremacy doesn\u2019t always garb up in white cloaks and hoods. It\u2019s spoken around dinner tables. It whispers in locker rooms. It makes decisions in board rooms. It votes in almost every election. It is voiced in racist stereotypes excused as mere jokes. It perpetuates itself by saying, \u201cRacism is just a thing of the past.\u201d It buys houses in monolithic neighborhoods. It determines destiny by zip code. It declares unjust wars. It blames the poor for being poor. And, yes, sometimes it dresses up in white cloaks and hoods. The trouble is, it is most masked when it\u2019s not under a hood at all.-Tom Fuerst<\/a><\/p>\n

White folk:<\/p>\n

Why do y\u2019all get to live racism comfortably and appeal to your relationships with black people (e.g., your adopted child, black friend) but I can\u2019t call y\u2019alls bullshit out and appeal to my white ancestry (i.e., my white grandfather)? How come y\u2019all can use black folk (e.g., Ben Carson) to corroborate basic myths about black criminality but Barack Obama can\u2019t possibly speak authoritatively on race even though he\u2019s half white?<\/p>\n

By y\u2019alls logic, isn\u2019t familial kinship (blood,your Asian\/Latina wife\/cousin\/friend) a criterion for speaking authoritatively on a subject?<\/span><\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s not an argument to say \u201cwell you don\u2019t own\/claim your white identity.\u201d Not true and not a thing. I\u2019m black because y\u2019all make it clear I\u2019m black. Every single day.-Matt Vega<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I am not sad about\u00a0#<\/span>VA<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0today. As a son of the south with family members that faced lynchings I am only disappointed some nazis did not get a ticket to the next dimension. I am not going go pray about it. I know I\u2019ll have to patiently tolerate the mewling and wailing of religious people, the faux outrage of politicos, bloggers and academics the next few weeks. I am not going to any kumbyahh meetings. I am teaching my kids how to defeat people like them and to regard them as enemies. I know this may sound strange but I feel empowered.-Reynaldo Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

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