SOME interesting anecdotes from the lengthy but worthwhile read:
In “On Being White…And Other Lies,” James Baldwin argued that America had, really, “no white community”- only a motley alliance of European immigrants and their descendents, who made a “moral choice” (even if they didn’t realize it) to join a synthetic racial elite.
In “Towards the Abolition of Whiteness” David R. Roediger stated: “It is not merely that whiteness is oppressive and false; it is that whiteness is nothing but oppressive and false…Whiteness describes…not a culture but precisely the absence of culture. It is the empty and therefore terrifying attempt to build an identity based on what one isn’t and on whom one can hold back.”
