What Was _Not_ Said At Golden Globes Tells Us A Lot About Hollywood And White Liberal Actors At the Golden Globes, plenty of white liberal actors acknowledging themselves, but not a whisper of #BlackLivesMatter; plenty of Je Suis Charlie buttons but not a word of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, or Ferguson; and no awards for Selma, which tells a black story in a black voice. What might this tell us? Common clearly took a lesson from the book of Kanye West when he refused to say the words that felt as if they were hanging from the tip of his tongue: “Black lives matter.” I was struck by the audacity of inclusion in Common’s remarks and reminded that this is precisely the kind of racial discourse that we don’t need. But it is the kind of racial discourse in which liberal black folks are forced to publicly engage in order that they might not seem antagonistic to white people. Even when we want to say, Black lives matter, we talk about the lives of other people of color, and about white lives, too. We include everybody, because accusations of exclusion often make white folks less willing to listen to our critiques. Of course, all lives matter. But only some lives—black lives—are consistently treated as if they don’t. salon/2015/01/14/hollywoods_political_deafness_what_cosby_selma_hebdo_reveal_about_white_liberal_consciousness/ ~gw/#OccupySeattle
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:00:01 +0000
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