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kylenne (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kylenne) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
Re: Flames. On the side of my face.
It's like he has no fucking clue about the sad and sordid history of false accusations like that sending innocent black men (KIDS EVEN) to their deaths in defense of some bullshit pseudo-Victorian notion of white womanhood.
It's like he has no fucking clue that a fourteen year old black male in the 50's being sent south to visit family would have totally been warned to watch his behavior around whites, particularly women, specifically for this reason. It's like he doesn't know that by far the most common motive for lynchings were rape accusations that later turned out to be proven false in pretty much every circumstance. The incident that was the final straw in setting off the Tulsa Race Riots in 1921 was another high profile lynching with this same motive. Black people grew up with these stories. My mother is old enough to remember them, and to remember the admonitions she got from my grandmother as to how she should be careful on family trips down to South Carolina in the 50s.
He just has no fucking clue. At all. About anything. There is something visceral and persistent in the white American psyche about the meme of the predatory black male sullying delicate white women, who need literal white knights to rescue them (see also: the OJ Simpson trial, regardless of his guilt or innocence). That this asschab is, in 2011, playing right into this bullshit without an ounce of irony is depressing as fuck and entirely too predictable.
It's like he has no fucking clue about the sad and sordid history of false accusations like that sending innocent black men (KIDS EVEN) to their deaths in defense of some bullshit pseudo-Victorian notion of white womanhood.
It's like he has no fucking clue that a fourteen year old black male in the 50's being sent south to visit family would have totally been warned to watch his behavior around whites, particularly women, specifically for this reason. It's like he doesn't know that by far the most common motive for lynchings were rape accusations that later turned out to be proven false in pretty much every circumstance. The incident that was the final straw in setting off the Tulsa Race Riots in 1921 was another high profile lynching with this same motive. Black people grew up with these stories. My mother is old enough to remember them, and to remember the admonitions she got from my grandmother as to how she should be careful on family trips down to South Carolina in the 50s.
He just has no fucking clue. At all. About anything. There is something visceral and persistent in the white American psyche about the meme of the predatory black male sullying delicate white women, who need literal white knights to rescue them (see also: the OJ Simpson trial, regardless of his guilt or innocence). That this asschab is, in 2011, playing right into this bullshit without an ounce of irony is depressing as fuck and entirely too predictable.
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