{"id":3935,"date":"2007-12-04T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/04\/white-folks-on-race\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:52:55","slug":"white-folks-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3935","title":{"rendered":"White Folks on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PortlyDyke blogs on racism and white people&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/trying-to-get-white-people-to-talk.html\">comfort levels <\/a>on it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I know that racism is still an issue, because there are white people &#8212; white people who think of themselves as liberal\/progressive &#8212; who will say racist things to me when people of color are not around &#8212; even after I have confronted them in the past about racist remarks that they have made.<\/p>\n<p>I know that racism is still an issue because white people seem so fucking uncomfortable about discussing it &#8212; so uncomfortable, in fact, that they avoid discussing it, even when it is clearly brought to the table by someone that they consider an ally.<\/p>\n<p>I know that racism is still an issue because <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/black-and-missing.html\">people of color can disappear<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/if-cnn-thought-angie-tucker-mattered.html\">nobody seems to notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I think that racism, misogyny, and homophobia (and whole bunch of other hatred-based &#8220;isms&#8221;) are interconnected. Yes, I think that it&#8217;s important for me to &#8220;connect-the-dots&#8221; between these forms of oppression, and understand how they intertwine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Originally linked from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/\">Pam&#8217;s House Blend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PortlyDyke blogs on racism and white people&#8217;s comfort levels on it:<br \/>\nI know that racism is still an issue, because there are white people &#8212; white people who think of themselves as liberal\/progressive &#8212; who will say racist things to me when people of color are not around &#8212; even after I have confronted them in [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}