The point we're missing about 'BBQ Becky' and her sisters [View all]

Source::https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-point-were-missing-about-bbq-becky-and-her-sisters/2018/10/22/3d228434-d320-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html?utm_term=.c1392639259e

Gonna X Post this to GD as well. Many more paragraphd them I can post here. The author is soeaking to the hastag names attached to racist white women.

snip..."...And yet, something about the viewing experience — or at least the hashtag packaging of it — was starting to bother me. So I called a few people to talk through why.

“It’s a really gendered response,” offers Charles McKinney, a professor of history and Africana studies at Rhodes College. “When white men engage in this activity, very rarely do we give them cutesey nicknames,” he notes, with exception to the rare #CouponCarl. “There’s an insipid inclination to downplay these instances when the perpetrators are white women.”

McKinney’s argument is that these incidents aren’t, generally, women simply being dopey or clueless. They’re examples of racism, and the way that people of color can be harassed while going about their daily lives."


snip..."A minimizing of the profound power that white women have had in America’s racial history — from the false accusation by Carolyn Bryant Donham that led to Emmett Till’s brutal killing, to the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five, which resulted in innocent boys spending years in prison.


In the post-Civil War South, white women were “segregation’s constant gardners,” as Elizabeth McRae writes in a new book about the politics of white supremacy. White women built the monuments to Confederate generals; white women harassed black children as they tried to integrate schools. Racist white men burned crosses and performed lynchings, but their rationale was often tied up in a twisted logic related to protecting the purity of white women.,"

sigh. These f-ed up white racist women are so f-ing dangerous in so many ways