Oh, and speaking of which, here's the kicker: remember the
above-mentioned club President? The one concerned about how the black
kids might change the complexion of the place? John Duesler? Yeah,
well, turns out, Duesler is no knuckle-dragging right winger. He's no
Klansman. Actually, he was a supporter of President Obama, and helped coordinate a blood drive in town to celebrate the Presidential inauguration. Even worse, he's the chairman of
Peace-Action Philadelphia: a collection of presumably progressive and
even leftist types. This is what I speak of as Racism 2.0 in my book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama:
the kind of racism that allows some whites to vote for Obama, and to
carve out exceptions for those black and brown folks who make us
comfortable, but to maintain fundamentally hostile views towards the
larger communities of color from which these exceptions come. In other
words, the kind of racism that says, black folks are fine, so long as
they went to Harvard Law, speak a certain way, dress a certain way, and
pander to our tastes. But for the rest of y'all, oh hell no.
I'm off to search the net for references to this article and who is doing the referencing. Links to the author's writing tends to cause people who oppose the writer, to spew venom and spit. I wonder if those same people will now reference this article directly or indirectly.
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