#white resentment

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Black British TV journalists speak out over racism and resentment from White colleagues - Voice Online

Worryingly, 80 journalists - some Black British - were questioned and 63% said they had experienced racism in their workplace.

A major report from the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity reveals a backlash in newsrooms following diversity initiatives introduced after the Black Lives Matter movement. Black British TV journalists are experiencing “resentment” from white colleagues because of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, a new damning report has said. The report, Breaking: The experience of racially minoritised people working in UK TV newsrooms, reveals some Black journalists have received a “backlash” from white colleagues because of DEI initiatives since the Black Lives Matter movement. Led by Rohit Kachroo, ITV News‘ global security editor, and Birmingham City University lecturer Dr Ellie Tomsett, the research is from the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity study, which aimed to find out about the lived-experiences of British Black and minoritised journalists. Worryingly, 80 journalists were questioned and 63% said they had experienced racism in their workplace. When asked whether diversity schemes introduced over the last five years were “working well” 60% of the respondents either disagreed or strongly disagreed.

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Jon Stewart Talks White Resentment w/ Isabel Wilkerson | The Problem With Jon Stewart

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“They were abusing and dependent on state support, specifically tax payer money. Suggesting of course that they themselves were not tax payers. They were characterized as violent, manipulative, and engaged in illegal activity. They were described as being hyper sexual, having multiple children out of wedlock, and of course uninterested in raising those children. This other was fundamentally in need of state sponsored surveillance and policing...It was this process of ‘othering’ under neoliberalism that fueled what...label white resentment politics.”

-Cathy Cohen, “Whose Black Lives Matter?”

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Identity politics is not the sole preserve of minority voters. This election is a reminder that identity politics in America is a white invention: it was the basis of segregation. The denial of civil rights to black Americans had at its core the idea that a black American should not be allowed to vote because that black American was not white. The endless questioning, before the election of Obama, about America’s “readiness” for a black President was a reaction to white identity politics. Yet “identity politics” has come to be associated with minorities, and often with a patronizing undercurrent, as though to refer to nonwhite people motivated by an irrational herd instinct. White Americans have practiced identity politics since the inception of America, but it is now laid bare, impossible to evade. . . . Is the only valid resentment in America that of white males? If we are to be sympathetic to the idea that economic anxieties lead to questionable decisions, does this apply to all groups? Who exactly are the élite?

Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, New Yorker, 12/2/2016

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Here’s what my teachers’ should have told me: “Reconstruction was the second phase of the Civil War. It lasted until 1877, when the Confederates won.” I think that would have gotten my attention.

Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party | The Weekly Sift

This article’s a few years old, but still really relevant for understanding the intertwined threads of racism and anti-federalism, and the prevalence Confederate iconography 150 years after they (supposedly) lost the war.

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‘White working class’ rally around a racist platform because admitting obstructionist Republican policies crushed your life is too hard to accept. It is much easier to blame non-whites and immigrants for their struggling lives.

Trickle-down did nothing for the white working class. 'Free markets’ sent their jobs overseas. Their identity politics withered in Supreme Court decisions.

Now they want straight-up ‘race’ to decide the future? Competition has kicked their ass. Their 'bootstrap myth’ is too hard for them to even try.

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