I think part of my visceral reasponse to this is that for a lot of white people, these issues are very much theoretical and abstract and something that they've read about. For me and my friends, they are very often things that have affected our real life families and friends, and we dont get to abstract about them And we very often know much more than is actually discussed in polite society.
Ferinstance, one of the people on my flist can trace her family history directly to one of the most notorious fighters in the Haitian revolution. Another one of my friends has family who participated in getting independence from Britain in south asia and again were affected by the Bangladesh war. But as you pointed out, people dont even pay the slightest bit of attention to nonwhite histories like that-- or at least, from the point of view of hte nonwhite people involved. So... yeah.
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Re: oh hell to the no.
Thu, May. 31st, 2007 08:18 pm (UTC)whitepeople, these issues are very much theoretical and abstract and something that they've read about. For me and my friends, they are very often things that have affected our real life families and friends, and we dont get to abstract about them And we very often know much more than is actually discussed in polite society.Ferinstance, one of the people on my flist can trace her family history directly to one of the most notorious fighters in the Haitian revolution. Another one of my friends has family who participated in getting independence from Britain in south asia and again were affected by the Bangladesh war. But as you pointed out, people dont even pay the slightest bit of attention to nonwhite histories like that-- or at least, from the point of view of hte nonwhite people involved. So... yeah.
hope this is coherent.