Sentences with phrase «overcompensatory white guilt»

Not so long ago, it was called â $ œthe Indian problem, â $ and although white guilt and liberal gentility has evolved semantically to the point where new locutions are required annually to describe C...

It remains impossible to assess the relative causal impacts of populism, white guilt, sharp ideological shifts and covert racism in this action.

Just your liberal white guilt talking.

Such efforts give the lie to what is accurately described as the racist slander that black Americans are incorrigibly incapable of facing the truth about their situation, are perpetually parasitic on the larger society, and have no other strategy than to exploit white guilt in order to continue the free ride that blacks are getting on the wagon that others pull (to use Senator Phil Gramm's ugly image).

Now the sources mentioned above — plus the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, USA Today, and others — have looked into the facts and found that the crisis was made up by folks who parlayed white guilt about racism into a very profitable thing.

In her article» Don't Talk About Race» (December 1999), Sarah E. Hinlicky shows herself to be all too vulnerable to the tiresome phenomenon known as «white guilt.»

Hate crime laws are just white guilt.

To those who are open to exploring a radically different way of understanding racism in America, I recommend White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement.

Steele describes colorfully (if one may be permitted the term) his own epiphany in discovering his black manhood and power in exploiting white guilt.

So these corporations never pay to the measure of any actual racism; they pay to the measure of racism's hyped - up and bloated reputation in the age of white guilt.»

I am not arguing that Westerners act out of a sense of perpetual «white guilt» and give away all of their personal material belongings or wealth to local people.

While tackling subjects like white guilt, the national anthem and the righteously religious, he simultaneously skewers his own sense of male entitlement.

The real insult is von Trier's presumption that audiences will fail to see through Grace's naïveté, or that her slow comeuppance — white guilt roasting on a spit — will fill us with fascinated dread.

At the risk of further estranging myself from De Palma geeks, I must admit I rather enjoyed watching a Body Double without Armond White guilt - tripping my subconscious — which is not to say that Looker circumvents an auteurist reading altogether, but the idiosyncrasies that betray it as «Crichtonian» (like a novelistic conceit that starts off each new act with a placard indicating the day of the week *) are less than venerable and thus hardly lend themselves to an apologia.

Its reaching a zenith of overcompensatory white guilt to me.

white people like him because they they think it somehow takes care of their white guilt

Maybe they weren't really going to put out a film with so much apparent racial condescension and white guilt?

Instead, though it's easy to miss the single line of dialogue that explains this (about the camping site once being the location of a massacre of the Koori people by settlers), Killing Ground is about white guilt.

A literal white knight, he's the empty vesicle for not quite enough white guilt to prevent A Time To Kill from being another movie that invests the fate of black folks in an unctuous cracker.

For the first act, we are introduced to our main characters: a poor Latin - American mother and daughter (Carmen Ejogo and Zoe Soul, the real hearts of this film), an insufferable yuppie couple on the brink of divorce (Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez) from which we get the lion's share of our Crash - style white guilt narrative, and Frank Grillo as a grieving father / ex-soldier who feels the urge to Purge one particular soul on this night.

Beyond that, Tom Wilkinson is the obvious stand - out from the supporting men of «Belle «-- a sympathetic yet conflicted representation of white guilt that many Academy voters can likely identify with.

Elite white guilt made it impossible to say that a lot of black children were going to continue to fail in school and there's nothing anybody could do about it.

To Als, this was not the idle talk of a relatively privileged woman atoning for her white guilt.

CAM chose to claim a space for Blackness and then fill it with white guilt.

Hannah Black demands that all whites wallow in shame about racist violence against blacks, but in the case of Gober's work, his attempt to represent white guilt did not prevent a protest.

Robert Gober, not known for an ongoing commitment to racial issues, produced what he saw as a commentary on white guilt by juxtaposing a white sleeping man with a black hanged man in a 1989 lithograph — and generated a similar controversy to today's when black employees at the Hirshhorn Museum, where it was exhibited, protested.

Strategies must and should include preparation for rescue, support, rebuilding and population rebuilding rather than wasting money on misguided «white guilt» shutting down of western economies.

Not exact matches

By evoking past suffering and current deprivations experienced by the ghetto poor, some black leaders seek to feed the guilt, and worse, the pity of the white establishment.

We agree that alcoholism is not in any conventional sense a «disease»: That white lie gained ground in early Alcoholics Anonymous because it helped unburden the alcoholic of guilt and self - hatred at the outset of recovery, enabling him to perceive that his own sense of powerlessness was not the last word.

This idea of guilt clinging to our souls appears in texts that picture forgiveness as a cleansing or washing and the state of our forgiven souls as clean and white (cf. Ps.

No, this type of guilt is a luxury mostly afforded to the White Anglo - Saxon Protestants who endure the obligation of feeling bad for the plight of everybody and everything in the world.»

White liberal guilt is a cultivated taste, and fewer people are making the effort.

How can I, white and middle class, acknowledge my corporate (not to say personal) guilt in institutionalized racism and then claim that God, the primal source of all societal relationships, remains utterly innocent of all that transpires?

It seems that for my Western Christian friends, if missionaries did not justify by their field labors the guilt the West carries about the mischief of the white race in the rest of the world, then other missionaries would have to be invented to justify that guilt.

The suggestion is that we all did have such forebears, and, if we can't find them, we can borrow some guilt from a (white) neighbor's family tree.

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

We are guilty of using the degrees of removal that separate an upper - class white Midwestern Christian from a Haitian mother as guilt trips or morality moments.

White liberals, guilt - ridden (I write from experience), accepted this spurious definition at face value.

James Farmer brought up the white conscience because it is supposed to be guilty — it has so much to be guilty about — and he condemned the Moynihan report because it might assuage that guilt.

Debriefing revealed that many of the participants had become aware of race - related feelings — shock, fear, expectation of rejection, vulnerability, confusion, inferiority as a Black, relief at being White again, and guilt about these responses.5 This group was relatively free of conscious prejudices and was dedicated to racial justice.

As passionate as I was about social justice and alleviating poverty, child sponsorship struck me as an old - fashioned model for giving in which a few select children essentially walked through a breadline to receive meals, schools supplies, and medical attention from far - away white «saviors» whose first - world guilt was eased by letters ensuring that their contributions made a difference.

~ These make - over Blueberry - White Chocolate Muffins are a blissfully decadent indulgence... without all the guilt!

Angel food cake is layered with a luscious white chocolate and coconut Cool Whip layer and topped with fresh berries for a guilt - free low fat treat!

I used King Arthur white whole wheat with some added vital wheat gluten, so I felt more pleasure and less guilt while I considered the increased fiber content.

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The bar is a soft white cheese coated in dark chocolate that caters to consumers looking for guilt - free indulgent dairy options and stands out among a sea of nut - based refrigerated bars.

Broccoli has that guilt - inducing green hue that tells you to eat more of it, while cauliflower is a pearly, milky, innocent white... but they're from the same cruciferous family (Brassicaceae, right?)

This effortless white bean dip makes a great app before a big meal, it feels substantial enough that you don't eat 10 pounds of it before dinnertime, and doesn't have the guilt - inducing after effects of say a nut - covered cheese ball.

The result is that I can finally have my chocolate chip cookies without the guilt and can I just say that Iv lost almost 20 lbs since Iv replaced the white flours and sugars with the almond meal and alternative sweeteners!

(I've got a very nice «no guilt chocolate cake» recipe that is similar but uses a little bit of white vinegar in place of the egg.