tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post673573316582854190..comments2023-12-29T18:13:21.495-06:00Comments on pink scare: On the Politics of Black VernacularUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-73668872967520327212011-03-24T16:14:15.273-05:002011-03-24T16:14:15.273-05:00Whoops, wrong link: http://pink-scare.blogspot.com...Whoops, wrong link: http://pink-scare.blogspot.com/2009/08/racism-and-ambivalence.htmlthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05268192967377248928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-91770740138169029602011-03-06T10:52:51.119-06:002011-03-06T10:52:51.119-06:00Thanks for your comments, which are much appreciat...Thanks for your comments, which are much appreciated. I agree with you that "inbuilt" doesn't quite capture what I was after- it's the more complex jumble of devaluing and loathing combined with the strange fascination and imitation that I wanted to draw attention to. <br /><br />I wrote another post a while back that maybe does a better job of this: <br />http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/editors-blog/2011/0303/Libya-crisis-Intervention-may-be-unavoidablethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05268192967377248928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-75500730926130825982011-03-06T09:53:21.805-06:002011-03-06T09:53:21.805-06:00My way of giving a post on what I call the "s...My way of giving a post on what I call the "socially-constructed, political notion of 'race'" a small, individual blogger standing ovation is to add it to the permanent list of links on my blog so that I don't have to answer the same fifteen questions over and over ad nauseum. This post will be the newest such addition to my "Some Basics" list. Kudos and thank you for such a clear and forthright declaration of reality.<br /><br />I do have a couple of other comments, as well. First, in the fourth paragraph, you mention Whites' "'inbuilt' disdain for blackness." I would suggest that this is a "purported" disdain for Blackness. White people SAY they think things Black are worth less than things White, but then White women pay huge and repeated amounts of money for tans, "permanent" waves in their hair, botox treatments in their lips, and "booty" implants, while their male counterparts are stuffing socks in their shorts whether or not Black men really are bigger "down there" (and how would White men know anyway?).<br /><br />Additionally, one of the most interesting things I ever read on language was a statement in something Charles Dickens wrote after traveling through the southern United States. He said he could hardly understand the White women because they sounded exactly like the Africans they held in bondage. Wealthy White children on the plantations in the South were raised largely by nannies and White women at that time were not educated and did not routinely leave their plantation homes. Consequently, according to Dickens, they sounded just like Blacks. So much for the inherent "superiority" of "White" folks.changeseekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350201531677548579noreply@blogger.com