StillIRise1963
My child just sent me a text about a book by a white guy named Sam Forster who said the following:
"Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society.
Writing Seven Shoulders was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done as a journalist.”
Ummm, WHAT???
Lux :flag_genderfluid:
@paulc @StillIRise1963 it also shows how white people are not willing to listen to non-white people when they speak about racism. They only care when it happens to someone like them.
Paul Chernoff
@StillIRise1963
It shows a continuing weakness of the main stream publishing world, that is it easier for white person to be published than a black person.
Reminds me of able bodied people getting limited insights by wearing devices to give themselves disabilities which they take off by the end of the day. I know disabled people who support this while knowing the limitations.
StillIRise1963
@paulc Yeah, not sure what’s very enlightening about a white guy pretending to be Black. It has nothing to do with Blackness.
Paul Chernoff
@StillIRise1963 Reminds me of Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin from 1961. Griffin describes how he took skin darkening medication and that many friends did not recognize him.
Ray Sprigle did this a decade earlier.
While Wikipedia said he received very few hoslite letters, the hostility from White people made him relocate from Texas to Mexico. He was assulted by white men in 1964.
I don't think we need a remake in 2024. It is better to support Black voices.
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