salon:One thing I’ve learned as a Jewish mother raising black sons in America: Whiteness is a
salon:One thing I’ve learned as a Jewish mother raising black sons in America: Whiteness is a dangerous constructI watch the television film again, and again, of Trayvon’s sweet face, of Michael Brown gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri, of Eric Garner, a man in my own city screaming, “I can’t breathe.” I hear my husband’s voice, after nearly 50 years of living in New York City, his tones and even some pronunciations returning to the Southern sounds of his youth and childhood: “I remember Emmett Till. When he was killed, he was the same age as I was. I still remember it, how it felt to me then.”Whiteness is a social and political category created to confirm privilege and superiority, to deny solidarity. -- source link