Wednesday, March 26, 2008
a reply to http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/16975596.html; "Whites as Blacks: Risky, rarely successful."
I never cease to be astonished at the views presumably intelligent people have. Neely Tucker of the Washington Post, and by extension every newspaper who carries Tucker's column, states their views in bold living color: "Whites as Blacks" (based on Tucker’s “memory” from the 1830s? That’s a neat trick.) The very phrase segregates, discriminates, is prejudicial. Tucker criticizes white actors who don dark makeup to play black characters or black people, but refuses to acknowledge that these are people playing other people. Not cultures - people. Tucker brings to mind critics of Obama who are ridiculously labeled "racist" and critics of Clinton who are likewise labeled "sexist." In fact, this epitomizes the racial stalemate Obama recently spoke of: we Americans have no idea how to treat people as people. Every face, every utterance, every gesture we make has to be scrutinized as a political statement, for its "objectionable-bility" factor. The result is innocent, honest, guileless folks are accused of doing the most deplorable things, when all they’re truly doing is being fully alive, and trying their best not to cave in to ignorant reactionaries who would name them otherwise. That’s what racist, and it needs to stop. Now.
posted by mark 4:10 AM
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