"In classroom settings I have often listened to groups of students tell me that racism really no longer shapes the contours of our lives, that there is no such thing as racial difference, that "we are all just people." Then a few minutes later I give them an exercise. I ask if they were about to die and could choose to come back as a white male, a white female, a black female, or a black male, which identity would they choose. Each time I do this exercise, most individuals, irrespective of gender or race invariably choose whiteness, and most often male whiteness. Black females are the least chosen. When I ask students to explain their choice they proceed to do a sophisticated analysis of privilege based on race (with perspectives that take gender and class into consideration)." -bell hooks
I witness this disconnect daily. Currently sharing housing with among others… 15 year old, female by birth, mixed race child. The current conditions in America, are as retro as they ever were, in the 1860’s whether Americans aknowledge it or NOT. Reading various blogs and multiple commentaries over the last five years, I have all the proof, before my very EYES as to the deep sickness of Society. FACT: Truly….Woman is Nigger of the World. ( John Lennon/Yoko Ono)