I’d like to suggest nuancing your essays by more carefully identifying which Whites you are speaking of. Reading your piece reveals the need to identify those Whites of whom you write as reactionary Whites. This small change will help clarify and edify, not to mention subtly placing the blame on reactionary thinking and not on (the White) race.
Reading the ProPublica article in its entirety (it is quite long) dispels some confusion. That the girls were arrested for NOT doing something was disconcerting. Laws against inaction (nonfeasance) are extraordinarily rare. According to Pro-Publica, the petition for the arrests cited encouraging the fight as the transgression. I’m not excusing the stupidity of what went down but rather I am pointing to a nuance that changes crass stupidity to a legal, racial insidiousness (i.e., institutional racism) that seems to have taken over an entire county of Rutherford, TN. This is worse than stupidity. It’s an entire legal system cleverly crafted to allow for charges of convenience so popular in totalitarian states.
Right on! Many valid points! I would only like to point out that not all white people are gatekeepers to wealth and power. Most of us shuffle along to the capitalist drumbeat, like everyone else in the real and true majority (i.e., the working class).
I’m not sure if this is a joke or not, but if not may I suggest that you define your topic (leftism not women) before you launch into a screed. A definition will definitely improve the coherence of the piece, assuming that this is not satire.
I won’t comment about teenage boys; they’re idiots (I was one too) and not worth the effort to analyze. Mature males (I know how slippery this concept is) who ridicule women’s bodies are saying a great deal about themselves, their insecurities and negative self-esteem – and nothing about the woman. About women making negative comments, I don’t know. Insecurity??
Example of white privilege: When I (a white male) see police lights in my rear-view mirror I am annoyed, irritated, even angry, but the one emotion I do not feel is fear.
