The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18657   Message #186552
Posted By: Crowhugger
28-Feb-00 - 11:01 PM
Thread Name: 'Coon Songs' Your Thoughts About Them
Subject: RE: Help: 'Coon Songs' Your Thoughts About Them
Jeri,

No post yet from an African-American? What is the source of your belief that none of the posts is from an A-A?

This seems an example of the kind of slippery slope that is so darned ordinary that it goes unnoticed. I see it as a relative of systemic racism. Somehow, at some time, our society has decided that things must have been written or produced by euro-type folks unless it's announced otherwise. The logic of this escapes me. In fact, the emotion of it escapes me too.

Where is it written that we are supposed to declare "whiteness"? I know one 'Catter in person and he is caucasian.

Let me turn the table: It must be that every posting (except Max, and a few others whose pictures I've seen) is from POCs - persons of colour. This is "obvious" because no one opened with something like "well, from a white point of view..."

What colour is introspection?