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Turning Racism Upside Down To See It Right Side Up: The Remix

Tue, 08/04/2009 - 21:05 — Dr. Edward Rhymes
upside downby Dr. Edward Rhymes
Attorney General Eric Holder described Americans as “cowards” when it comes to race. Certainly, white America refuses to confront white criminality and social pathology, preferring a narrative that “transfers” the ills of society to Black America. Won't some courageous white person stand up and tell the truth?

White Privilege, White Progressives and the Audacity of Obama’s Definition of Hope

Tue, 01/15/2008 - 18:00 — Dr. Edward Rhymes

RhymesLynchingby Dr. Edward Rhymes

Corporate media idiots regularly ask the
question: "Who would America elect first for President, a woman
or someone who is Black?" History has already answered. Sixteen white women
currently serve in the U.S. Senate, versus one lone Black, and "thirty white women
have served as state governors compared to two Black men since Reconstruction."
Every indicator shows white women are "the second
most privileged category of human in the US." White America poses questions
that history has already resolved, while seeking absolution (through Barack
Obama) for past and present injustices that many deny occurred. The real
question raised amidst the din of unreality is: "Are white liberals and
progressives truly committed to social and racial justice?"

Losing What We Never Had: White Privilege and the Deferred Dreams of Black America, Part Three

Tue, 07/24/2007 - 18:00 — Dr. Edward Rhymes

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contributing editor Dr. Edward RhymesRhymesWomanNoColorBlindPlacard

In the final installment of his series, the
author debunks the mythology of "reverse racism" - a phrase that "needs to be
done away with." Privileges accrued over centuries of Black subjugation
translate into present-day white wealth and Black poverty. "Race-neutral"
public policies amount to nothing less than change-resistant strategies by
those who strive to continue the old order of Black over white - a society in
which whites just out of prison are more likely to get a job than African
Americans with no prison record. Lending and redlining practices suck billions
of dollars out of the Black community, and mass incarceration effectively
destroys the futures of successive generations of young people. But huge
numbers of whites believe they are the ones who are getting a raw deal.

Losing What We Never Had: White Privilege & the Deferred Dreams of Black America, Part 2

Tue, 07/03/2007 - 18:00 — Dr. Edward Rhymes

by BAR contributing editor Dr. Edward RhymesNegroesDepression

Modern political mythology, also believed by Blacks, maintains that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and the post-World War Two college and housing benefits for veterans were unmitigated boons for African Americans. However, in many ways, the opposite is true. The New Deal, largely shaped to appease racist southern lawmakers, actually codified Black inferior status, while elevating poor whites. And returning Black veterans got only a tiny fraction of the benefits of the GI Bill. President Johnson's Sixties War on Poverty effectively lasted only three years –  at the end of which, the hopes of the Black poor were smashed.

 

Losing What We Never Had: White Privilege and Deferred Dreams, Part One

Tue, 06/26/2007 - 18:00 — Dr. Edward Rhymes

by contributing BAR editor Dr. Edward Rhymes

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The larger white society is getting ready to hold a party, to celebrate the end of racism, and lean back on their white privilege for the rest of their lives. It is an ongoing story of constant revision of history, and writing Black people out it. "It seems that every four years we see our struggle and needs ignored," writes the author, an historian. Presidential years are key to the revisionist project, they define the "new era." What follows is betrayal, as whites made up a feel-good version of history to justify their past actions.

Singing Soprano, While Dissin’ the Bass: America’s White Thug Love & Ethnically Acceptable Violence

Tue, 06/12/2007 - 18:00 — Dr. Edward Rhymes
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by BAR contributing editor Dr. Edward RhymesThugsBlackScarface

 

America's love affair with the gangster-killer-thug
Soprano family proves beyond doubt that white violence is exalted in the
culture, while Black violence is Public Enemy Number One. Tony Soprano needs a
high-priced psychiatrist, but a million Black men and women deserve a living
death in prison. Gangster-actors Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney and Humphrey
Bogart are revered as cultural icons, while Seventies so-called
"Black-sploitation" films and contemporary rap recordings are condemned as
symptoms of African American social pathology. Violence, apparently, is an exclusive White Right.

A ‘Ho’ By Any Other Color: The History and Economics of Black Female Sexual Exploitation

Tue, 05/01/2007 - 18:00 — Dr. Edward Rhymes

HHwomenBreastsby contributing editor Dr. Edward RhymesRhymes

While white women's
sexuality is celebrated in movies and magazines, Black women acting out the
same behavior are relegated to the ranks of whoredom. This gross double
standard is rooted in slavery and super-exploitation of Black females, who were
made prey to white male lust and depicted as sexually animalistic, in addition
to bearing the burden of unremunerated labor. Conversely, "even at her most licentious," a white woman "is made
to appear innocent, wholesome and strangely virginal."

 

 

 

Caucasian Please! America’s True Double Standard for Misogyny and Racism

Tue, 04/17/2007 - 18:00 — Dr. Edward Rhymes

by Dr. Edward RhymesRhymesTwoRutgers

Despite the firing of Don Imus, corporate media continue to attempt to divert attention from long-established institutional sexism, in order to depict Black youth culture as the vector of the disease. The American reality is one of pervasive celebration of violence, in general, and violence against women, in particular - a white cultural invention. Black rappers, who are owned and controlled by white corporations, did not create this culture of violence and misogyny, but are made the scapegoats for a much deeper national social crisis - a landscape in which "The Godfather" and "Goodfellas" are revered as "classic" films.

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