A New Narrative of Whiteness
Courtney E. Martin writes, ‘For so long, whiteness has either been invisible — almost like the neutral setting… or it has been irredeemable, something to be ashamed of....
Both mindsets are ultimately unfruitful for real racial progress." Are there only two routes?
comfortable delusion
— whiteness is the norm and always will be.
OR
delusional comfort
— there is some
way to earn transcendence from the
moral abomination that is American
whiteness, historic and contemporary.
But could it be that a third way is being born? Could it be that a narrative of whiteness that feels redeemable, principled, loud, unafraid, intentionally uncomfortable, even joyful, is starting to take shape?”
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On Being.
Join Emily Elliott for discussion in the Fresco Lobby at 10am.
