Whiteness stands for
Every single one of these statements comes from the NMAAHC, from a document titled “Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness and White Culture in the United States.”
This insane idiocy is gaining speed in our culture in our institutions. Read Robin DeAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi, Nicole Hannah Jones, and Joe Scarborough today in the Washington Post.
- protection for private property
- intent as an element of crime.
- decision-making and majority rules and “do[ing] something” about a situation” and “be[ing] #1.
- rugged individualism
- independence and autonomy
- the nuclear family
- be independent
- objective, rational linear thinking
- values cause and effect relationships
- quantitative emphasis
- emphasis on the scientific method
- Hard work is the key to success
- work before play
- plan[ning] for the future
- delayed gratification
- and a belief in progress.
- places value on being on time
- English common law traditions
Every single one of these statements comes from the NMAAHC, from a document titled “Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness and White Culture in the United States.”
This insane idiocy is gaining speed in our culture in our institutions. Read Robin DeAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi, Nicole Hannah Jones, and Joe Scarborough today in the Washington Post.
