# Living while black in America

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 9, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611 "2018-07-09T21:17:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/491 "2018-08-03T23:05:51Z")

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> [@Huey\_Freeman](#):
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> …The only time blacks have **white people** ’s attention is when we’re jumping, running, laughing, dribbling, joking, or otherwise entertaining you. **White folks** tolerate blacks only when we’re doing something they like. Period…Lastly, it is not my or any other person of color’s responsibility to mend fences with **white folks** won’t even live near us or attempt to **engage us as human beings**.

And by the evidence of this thread you think a constructive approach to life for a black person today is to treat “white folks” as a monolithic enemy, right? Rather than human beings.

So you’re a fan of Robin DiAngelo. She has some insightful things to say. But it’s one thing to challenge widespread unconscious racist assumptions, to disrupt white people’s comfortable privilege; it’s quite another to make preposterous sweeping generalized accusations that alienate rather than enlighten. You give angry, ignorant, patronizing lectures, with little regard for facts or evidence, accusing all “white folks” of collective guilt; then seek to dismiss any negative reaction as white fragility, so that anyone who disagrees with you or challenges your claims is conveniently just affirming the validity of your worldview, right?

Well, just as Carl Sagan pointed out that they _also_ laughed at Bozo The Clown, not _all_ negative reactions among “white folks” are solely attributable to white fragility. Perhaps you’re not the proud crusader that you think you are. Perhaps you’re an ignorant divisive scumbag with scant regard for facts or evidence. I feel so _fragile_ that I can’t embrace that.

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