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The truth hurts doesn’t it Mr. Brooks. How dare a brilliant black man call out white people and dare to say how it feels to be black in america
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Did I read this correctly? Did a smidgen of consciousness enter bobo’s head? If so, then maybe that is a start.
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“I’m paid to be a narcissistic blowhard…I have to work harder than most people to avoid a life of smug superficiality.” – David Brooks</a.
Work harder, Mr. Brooks.
Much harder.
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David Brooks is an oblivious, smug, sanctimonious, self-satisfied fool. If he ever had to deal with the world as it actually exists his head would explode.
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- “Am I displaying my privilege if I disagree? Is it my job to respect your experience and accept your conclusions?”*
Yes to both. See, it’s not that hard David Brooks.
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While Brooks acknowledges that, perhaps, a white audience should stop and reflect after reading, he asks: “Am I displaying my privilege if I disagree? Is it my job to respect your experience and accept your conclusions?”
YES! White people need stop explaining to black people the black experience and how they think we should feel about it. But, that goes back to Coates’ overarching theme that the ultimate of white privilege is the need to control black bodies because to control the body is to control the mind, the spirit, and the soul.
That said, I’m extremely impressed that Coates’ book was so powerful that it was able to make a dent in the mind of someone so obtuse, so blatantly indignant as David Brooks.
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“Maybe the right white response is just silence for a change.”
Could be the best sentence Brooks has written or will ever write.
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It always comes as a slap in the face whenever reality intrudes on Dumbshit Brooks’ silver-spoon-up-his-ass world.
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When most white folk think you are smug…
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Listen, I heard this Demigod’s explications about the “rage” he felt about 9/11 anguish, rage that people were upset about piddly 9/11 when they rightly should have been upset about Coates’ agenda issues. Enough for me, and even Chris Hayes’ devoted worship of Coates could not draw me into the adoring fold.
Go eat a bag of dicks, David Brooks. I find the opening paragraph of your article insulting, considering the party you associate with. I mean really is this at all true for the average white conservative American?:
The last year has been an education for white people. There has been a depth, power and richness to the African-American conversation about Ferguson, Baltimore, Charleston and the other killings that has been humbling and instructive.
As far as I have seen, conservatives have lashed out at protesting African Americans as savages, as a destructive force, as crying over wrongs that their people deserved. Go to any conservative blog and you will not see articles or comments conveying the feeling that conservative whites have felt “humbled” or “instructed.” If anything they have become emboldened in their racisms. Your BS lip service is really too much to handle.
And plainly you yourself have not been humbled or instructed or else you would not feel the need to ask these questions:
But I have to ask, Am I displaying my privilege if I disagree? Is my job just to respect your experience and accept your conclusions? Does a white person have standing to respond?
Of course it is white privilege to start an argument with him about whether his truth is wrong. Or whether his truth must be accepted. Because that is all it is: his truth. So why the hell is it some white guy’s place to tell an African American that the conclusions he has drawn from living his life as a black man are wrong?
Seriously, Brooks, just STFU.
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David Brooks is an affirmative action hire at the NYT. Historically, the affirming has been done to white men. His position == Failing upwards. Kinda stuff happens to white men often. Today the plain fact of this is displayed for all to see.
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Why do people want to justify and continue identifying as white? That seems to be a big part of the problem to me. People don’t seem to understand the history and origin of whiteness relative to the justification of black slavery. Is Brooks French or German or Jewish? Great, identify culturally/racially/ancestrally there instead of as white and privileged to not be subject to slavery like all those non-whites.
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Whitemansplaining the black experience is Sunny Brook’s job. If it does not comport to what really happens just put your fingers in your ears, shut your eyes and read David’s column because you don’t even have to look at the words, you already know what he’s going to say.
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Maybe the right David Brooks response is just silence for a change.
FIFY
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You flatter him unnecessarily.
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I’ve said it before, I’m a mid 50s white guy that read black like me at 15 and it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know and that most white folks just don’t want to admit. I imagine his book will be similar.
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Meh, statistical feedback is more likely.
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I will posit that no one can begin to feel what it’s like to be inside the skin of someone who was simply born into a position of lower or even despised status.
Maybe 2 times in my life I’ve tried to take someone to task for some expression of bigotry. Tried to create some compassion. Not only did I fail each time, but the person deeply resented it, even doubled down.
Never did it again. I was naive.
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