Michael Eric Dyson
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Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
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Identity politics is not new. All politics have rested on identities, and that those identities are critical features of wrestling with how we have gone wrong in the effort to set things right—which too often has meant make them white.
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Whiteness is a category of identity that is most useful when its very existence is denied. That’s its twisted genius. It is”the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist”.
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Whiteness is at once the means of dominance, the end to which dominance points, and the point of dominance, too, which, in its purest form, in its greatest fantasy, never ends.
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Whiteness is not true, but it is real, in the sense that societies and rights and goods and resources and privileges have been built on its foundation.
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Whiteness is the “changing same,” a highly adaptable and fluid force that stays on top no matter where it lands.
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Whiteness is the clearest example of the very identity politics its detractors claim to be harmful to the nation, and that their whiteness has shielded them from growing up as quickly as they might have done had they not so heavily leaned on it to make it through life.