{"id":61052,"date":"2021-07-14T03:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T03:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61052"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:00:43","slug":"the-problem-isnt-white-people-its-whiteness-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61052","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Isn\u2019t White People \u2014 It\u2019s Whiteness, People"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Problem Isn\u2019t White People \u2014 It\u2019s Whiteness, People<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Tim Wise<\/a>
\n2021-07-12<\/p>\n

Tim Wise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nPhoto by the author (on location), Rage Against the Machine\/The Umma Chroma<\/em><\/a> video shoot, Watertown, TN<\/a>. 10\/17\/20<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Anti-racists aren\u2019t trying to make anyone feel bad. It\u2019s called a systemic analysis for a reason<\/em><\/p>\n

Amid the backlash to anti-racist teaching and activism \u2014 symbolized by the assault on Critical Race Theory<\/a> \u2014 one claim stands out as the principal lamentation of aggrieved conservatives. Namely, the idea that anti-racist educators and activists believe white people are inherently racist and oppressive.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll hear it time and again. Those challenging anti-racist curricula insist their children are suffering psychological harm because the materials teach white kids to hate themselves. One parent in Tennessee<\/a> even has a Go Fund Me<\/a> to pay for counseling she says her 7-year-old needs after being exposed to in-depth discussions of the Civil War<\/a> and the misdeeds of white Americans…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anti-racists aren\u2019t trying to make anyone feel bad. It\u2019s called a systemic analysis for a reason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,459,8,26,23674,20],"tags":[23642,878,7870],"class_list":["post-61052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-critical-race-theory","tag-tennessee","tag-tim-wise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61059,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61052\/revisions\/61059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}