{"id":17085,"date":"2020-06-29T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-woke-whites-get-wrong-about-blacks-priorities\/"},"modified":"2020-06-29T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T23:50:00","slug":"what-woke-whites-get-wrong-about-blacks-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-woke-whites-get-wrong-about-blacks-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"#What \u2018woke\u2019 whites get wrong about Blacks\u2019 priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#What \u2018woke\u2019 whites get wrong about Blacks\u2019 priorities<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n This month\u2019s protests started out as a black movement against police brutality, but they have a different look now. In many cases, whites have taken over. They apologize for their \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and, in at least one case, wash black people\u2019s feet to expiate their collective sins.<\/p>\n

Celebrities, athletes and corporate America followed suit. Portland\u2019s police chief resigned, asking to be replaced by a black man, and the CEO of Chick-Fil-A urged whites to shine the shoes of black people to show a \u201csense of shame.\u201d But why now?<\/p>\n

To find out, I had to hear what whites were saying. I listened to the protesters, talked with my white friends and read articles and social<\/a>-media posts. What I found was white people overwhelmingly depicting black people as desperate and defeated, with no way to pull themselves out of their misery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand your point,\u201d a white friend said when I objected to this simplistic narrative. \u201cBut don\u2019t you think blacks are being oppressed?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when I realized that white wokeness is the new factor in our national life. It has been embedded into the consciousness of whites that all blacks are the same and that they all face impossible barriers to improvement \u2014 from standardized tests to the black men being arrested on the nightly news<\/a>. A growing number of whites believe that black life is unrelentingly grim.<\/p>\n

Most whites don\u2019t have many black friends to give them firsthand accounts of what their \u00adexperiences are with racism. While most blacks do experience some discrimination or \u00adracial prejudice, it is rarely violent, and it doesn\u2019t hold them back in a significant sense.<\/p>\n

The media give a distorted view of black life. We see this in the stories they choose to report \u2014 and those they eschew. In 2018, police shot and killed 54 unarmed men; 22 were black. Compared with the percentage of blacks in the US population, that figure looks disproportionate \u2014 but black people commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime and thus tend to have more interactions with the police.<\/p>\n

Every police shooting must be investigated thoroughly and fairly, but we should also demand fair and thorough media coverage of these shootings. It\u2019s telling that so many people can name some of the unarmed black men killed by police, but few can name any of the white men.<\/p>\n

Blacks do lag whites in many socioeconomic indicators \u2014 but most blacks don\u2019t live in poverty, don\u2019t have constant run-ins with law enforcement and aren\u2019t uneducated. It\u2019s important to look at racial disparities in context. Though blacks commit more violent crime than whites do in relative terms, in absolute terms, the percentage of people who commit any violent crime is tiny. The white violent-crime rate is 0.12 percent; for blacks, it is 0.44 percent. By any standard, most people aren\u2019t violent criminals, regardless of their race.<\/p>\n

Yet sympathetic non-blacks often see blacks as oppressed victims with limited opportunities. Since the killing of George Floyd, I\u2019ve had many conversations with whites, mostly centered on my own well-being. Many of my black friends relate stories of management at their companies telling employees to \u201ccheck on\u201d their black co-workers.<\/p>\n

Everywhere one looks, organizations are showing their solidarity with Black Lives Matter \u2014 both the motto and the organization. Uber Eats canceled its delivery fees for black businesses. Turn on YouTube TV or order from Amazon, and you\u2019ll see messages of support for \u201cthe black community.\u201d Nike, the NFL and others made Juneteenth a paid holiday for all employees. These gestures, mostly symbolic, suggest what whites believe blacks are concerned about. They seem insincere.<\/p>\n

Since they don\u2019t have many blacks in their social circles, and having conversations with blacks is awkward and can take time, woke whites opt for easy, feel-good actions, most of which will have no effect on police brutality, on the quality of black schools or neighborhoods or on black lives general<\/a>ly.<\/p>\n

Most woke whites have good intentions, but their symbolic gestures will, at best, have little effect and, at worst, do real harm. The campaign against \u00adpolice is a good example. Broad anti-police sentiment has \u00adalready caused cops to become less proactive in high-crime neighborhoods, with the predictable result that shootings have spiked around the country.<\/p>\n

Whites are engaging in activism motivated by a misperception about black life that doesn\u2019t comport with reality for most blacks. With their views of blacks as wounded and perpetually oppressed, woke whites would do more good by doing nothing.<\/p>\n

Charles Love is the assistant executive director of Seeking Educational Excellence. Adapted from City Journal.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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