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Surber: NYT publishes a racist screed
A Wakandan separatist writes in the NY Times.They should come out and admit it: Black separatism is the avowed policy of left wing media and the national government. [DonSurber] Erin Aubry Kaplan is a journalist and author who grew up in the South Central section of Los Angeles and nearby Inglewood. She doesn't want any white people moving to Inglewood. She is OK with Latinos moving in. But white people, stay out. She doesn't want white people coming into her neighborhood with their white people ways and their white people's food and their white people smell. In a column in the New York Times, Kaplan wrote of building "one of those little free-standing library boxes that dot lawns in bedroom communities around the country." Her reasoning behind the friendly library was rather unfriendly. She wrote, "Why not? A library is not so much a marker of wealth and whiteness as it is an affirmation of community and cozy, small-town camaraderie that Inglewood, a mostly black and Latino city in southwestern Los Angeles County, has plenty of. We deserved no less. "Pre-pandemic, Inglewood was gentrifying, another reason I’d been inspired to do the library: I wanted to signal to my longtime neighbors that we had our own ideas about improvement, and could carry them out in our own way." Gentrification means white people moving in. Liberals never quite say that, but it is what they mean. Stick to your own kind. She wrote, "one morning, glancing out my front window, I saw a young white couple stopped at the library. Instantly, I was flooded with emotions — astonishment, and then resentment, and then astonishment at my resentment. It all converged into a silent scream in my head of, Get off my lawn! "The moment jolted me into realizing some things I’m not especially proud of. I had set out this library for all who lived here, and even for those who didn’t, in theory. I would not want to restrict anyone from looking at it or taking books, based on race or anything else. But while I had seen white newcomers to the neighborhood here and there, the truth was, I hadn’t set it out to appeal to white residents." She is like a Klansman putting up a basketball hoop and watching a black player show up. Oh the horror! She wrote, "By bringing this modern cultural artifact here from white neighborhoods, had I set myself up, set up the neighborhood? Was I contributing to gentrification and sending the wrong message about how I wanted the neighborhood to be? "What I resented was not this specific couple. It was their whiteness, and my feelings of helplessness at not knowing how to maintain the integrity of a black space that I had created. I was seeing up close how fragile that space can be, how its meaning can be changed in my mind, even by people who have no conscious intention to change it. That library was on my lawn, but for that moment it became theirs. I built it and drove it into the ground because I love books and always have. But I suddenly felt that I could not own even this, something that was clearly and intimately mine." Read the rest at the link Posted by: badanov 2021-12-07 |
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