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1331: The idea of whiteness / Robert P. Baird

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Writer Robert P. Baird on his article "The Invention of Whiteness: A Long History of a Dangerous Idea" for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea

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Stop that train I want to get on.

0:05.0

My bed and she's giving me now.

0:09.0

And I can turn. I'm thinking about. This is hell relatively new concept.

0:35.0

Manufacturing descent since 1996.

0:38.0

This is hell.

0:42.0

Whiteness is a relatively new concept that is predated by racism,

0:47.5

which oddly is predated by white supremacy.

0:51.0

Yes, white supremacy, the concept that white people are somehow better

0:54.8

than everybody else.

0:56.5

That came before racism, the discriminatory practice based on race, and all those ideas are relatively new.

1:05.0

You know that well-meaning uncle or aunt of yours who is so frustrated with racism

1:11.0

then ends the conversation with,

1:13.4

well, there's always been racism,

1:15.8

as if nothing can be done about it

1:17.5

because it is as natural as the sky being blue.

1:21.1

Well, they're wrong. They're very wrong. Racism is a recent invention and you would be surprised

1:27.6

who simply accepted that racism. For instance, that noted man of peace, Mahatma Gandhi, who once set a vengeance substituting

1:36.8

for justice and eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind, that same Gandhi who would later be applauded by Nelson Mandela for Gandhi's

1:46.2

opposition to apartheid had earlier set of South African white minority rule, quote, the English and the Indians spring from a common stock called the

1:56.3

Indoarian and the white race in South Africa should be the predominating race.

2:03.0

So where did white supremacy, racism, and whiteness come from?

2:08.0

Why after so much time on earth that humans suddenly decide to impose restrictions cruel, brutal, and inhumane

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