http://nasblog.org/2010/02/09/minorities-set-up-whites-only-scholarship-program/ The National Association of Scholars: For reasoned scholarship in a free society Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nasblog.org/2010/02/09/minorities-set-up-whites-only-scholarship-program/#comment-1639 Tue, 18 May 2010 01:12:59 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=1283#comment-1639 Food for thought…

]]> http://nasblog.org/2010/02/09/minorities-set-up-whites-only-scholarship-program/#comment-500 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:15:28 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=1283#comment-500 I love the term “ally” when qualifying white people in (critical?) race studies. Allies for what? To do what? The white ally is tantamount to the “good” Samaritan in certain respects. It suggests that whites in general aren’t allies, as “good” in the “good Samaritan” suggests that Samaritan’s in general aren’t good. The discourse seems to do a good job at ignoring the objectification involved in thinking of white people as tools toward another’s end. The more white people who can be “duped” into thinking along the discursive lines of diversity, the better chance the movement has at succeeding. The first step, however, is to get whites to accept their subservient role as an object for another’s prosperity. Hmm…what does this sound like?

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