Quote of the Day

Some Black folk are resentful of white authors, activists, and experts on race who, riding the wave of white wokeness, end up re-centering whiteness -- because white grief, shame, or guilt over past sins leads them to decry their unfortunate, even tragic exercise of privilege.  Thus, racial absolution highlights the bruised or repentant white person, and before you know it the conversation ceases to be about social change and racial justice, and the offending whiteness is once again at the center, while Blackness, as usual, is playing in the background.  There is real hurt involved: while Black folk are the true inspiration for woke white writers, they are denied the cultural legitimacy and financial windfall such folk reap once they hit the circuits to tell white folk to stop being white in the ways that Black writers have been saying for centuries.

-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 202-203