out of the white nest

Writings about Whiteness and Racism

  • To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest

Category: poverty

by Zee Bee

Black Voters Know White Voters

Maybe if we actually admitted that everything we have in the US is sticky with the blood of slavery and genocide, we’d be more willing to give it up.

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How Not To Be Good

Providing for the needs of others should be like your left hand scratching your right: you aren’t debating whether your left hand should waste its energy, or thinking of how benevolent you’re being towards you right hand, or expecting thanks or praise from it. You’re just doing what needs to be done, doing what comes naturally.

I mean, that’s the goal.

I’m not even within shouting distance of that yet.

The Origins of My Misogyny*

It’s just like Whiteness. If there is only one standard by which behavior is measured, then anything non-White (collaboration, physical expression, oral tradition, integration with nature) is inferior, laughable, or aberrant. If Masculinity is all there is, then femininity or any other gender identity or performance, is necessarily inferior. So why would I, a self-appointed Feminist, want to be Feminine? Ever?

Woman Hating and Hatefilled Women

I told her just a little of what had transpired between us. She told me that Ms. Martin tended to feel intimidated by certain female students. She said she thought Ms. Martin was “not very smart” and “not a good teacher” and was probably threatened by me. She said she was sorry that my interests lay in Martin’s so-called area of expertise. But she was a full professor and there wasn’t much that could be done.

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