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| 04/08/2008 16:51:46 | The black church arrives on America's doorstep |
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| The black church arrives on America's doorstep | N/A | Thank you for your comments. I accept your notion that many white people sympathize with Wright's comments. What I don't however accept is your statement that race is "not that relevant" anymore. I also don't accept your suggestion that the same conversation on race is happening in predominately white communities/settings as is being had in black and brown communities/settings . If that were the case, you and I wouldn't be exchanging comments now. I agree that things should be different. But they aren't. It's important to note that neither white nor black communities are monolithic and in fact you would be hard pressed to even define what those terms mean. Not every person who identifies as being black agrees with Wright's comments, nor am I even remotely suggesting that they should. But the experiences of people who identify a certain way racially is not irrelevant to their perspective. The fact that Sunday morning is such a heavily segregated moment of the American week is a testament to the fact that Americans and their experiences are still deeply divided by race. I don't have any hard data to support this, but I would venture to say that Wright's comments struck a chord with a hell of a lot more black people and other people of color, than with white people. The fact of the matter is that the narratives of newspapers and media outlets that are dominated by the views of predominately white, liberal, men - like the New York Times, for instance - assume Wright's comments were incendiary, hateful and marginal. That is not shared by what I would call the mainstream black press. There's a reason for that. As absurd a notion as race ultimately is, it would be a mistake to dismiss people's views and experiences that are influenced by it. I would argue that being "color-blind" is not the same thing as seeing people's full humanity. In fact, Obama was trying to wake America up to the reality of racial division, not paper over it. In order to get past America's fixation on race and racism, you have to first acknowledge that it is exists. |
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