A woman named Amelia Shroyer, writing for Huffington Post, takes white people to task for racism against people of color, pronouncing, “White people, we are massively failing with our white fragility.”
Shroyer just happens to be a native Texan now living in Berlin, Germany, where as late as 2011, only 2% of the population was black, 3% Asian, 9% Middle Eastern, with 82% of the local population German. For some reason, the German Jewish population has declined in the last 70 years.
No matter. Shroyer is firmly planted on her leftist soapbox, and she has plenty to say. She argues that whites, “center entire conversations around our own feelings. We argue with people of color about their lived experiences of racism. We say ‘not all white people!’ and ‘all lives matter’ and totally miss the point.”
She is absolutely correct. All white people are vicious racists and only lives of color matter.
“The fact is, if you’re white in America, you’ve likely said, thought, or done something racist. It’s just a fact. We were all brought up in a white supremacist culture.”
Amelia Shroyer
Shroyer continues, “We ask people of color to educate us, and to be ‘nice’ about it. We talk about our good intentions. We bring up the times we were also treated badly.”
Yup; white people have never suffered. Don’t bring up the Holocaust, (in Berlin, that would be gauche) or the 1804 massacre in Haiti or the massacre of Florida whites in 1835-36 or the thousands of Boer farmers murdered in South Africa, or, most of all, the 110,000 Yankee soldiers killed in combat at another 250,000 lost fighting the Civil War so slavery could end. Don’t mention that whites on welfare outnumber minorities on welfare. And certainly don’t mention that the black-on-white murder rate is four times higher the white-on-black murder rate, without even adjusting for percentages of the population.
Shroyer wields her anvil-sized and weighted paintbrush to utter, “The fact is, if you’re white in America, you’ve likely said, thought, or done something racist. It’s just a fact. We were all brought up in a white supremacist culture.”
Of course we were. And to escape it, Shroyer fled to Berlin.
Shroyer lectures whites to atone for their original Sin: “We have to become aware of how we think about people. We have to cringingly remember times we said racist things to other white people, or worse, in front of a person of color. Whatever it is, we have to face that shit. And it’s hard. And it should be hard. We’ve had everything handed to us; we can’t demand racial enlightenment on a silver platter too. We have to do the work.”
Lest anyone doubt her, Shroyer has volunteered to meet Louis Farrakhan, who allegedly has called for volunteers to rise up and kill whites, to discuss racial healing.
Just kidding.
Shroyer argues that whites should lessen the burden of people of color who are activists, especially women, by “listening before we share our own insights and perspectives. People of color are very familiar with our stories.”
She concludes, “We can work harder to educate each other, as fellow white people, on how to better discuss racism, how to really show up for people of color in meaningful, non-disruptive ways, and fight white supremacy from within. And we can do these things without demanding cookies or pats on the back or taking credit for ‘starting conversations’ … We’ve got to do better. People are dying out here.”
Tell that to Darren Goforth.