Self hatred in action
I know these people are out there, but I’d prefer to forget. I’m talking about the ‘coat and tie white supremacists’ who have stolen one of my posts and reprinted it on their ‘news’ site. I’m talking about the people who comment on that racist site, who are against ‘race mixing’ and are afraid of African American men. I’m talking about people who really believe there is a genetic racial hierarchy, with ‘Whites’ at the top, ‘Blacks’ at the bottom, and everyone else somewhere in between. I’m talking about people who believe that ‘White America’ is ‘America’.
I talked to someone at the Southern Poverty Law Center who monitors hate and extremist activity. They know all about this group–and are already monitoring them.
It is hard for me to believe I am writing about ideas that are new, threatening, or different enough to warrant the attention of such a group. (My blog post is included with articles from the Associated Press, The Washington Post, and Financial Times. Maybe I should be trying to get paid for my writing.) There are whole sites dedicated to writing about anti-racist activism. I am hard-pressed to understand why they chose my post, except for a recurring theme in the comments that goes something like this, ‘Parents [mothers, really], take a close look at this woman because she embodies the threat to conservative White America.
How To Hate Yourself and Pretend You’re Happy