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Originally posted by ms_gwyn
we as human beings love to label and then give an explanation…THAT is not a black thing
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Actually, the human tendency to label and explain is overshadowed by the fact that in THIS racialized society minorities are the ones who tend to justify and rationalize.
Whites do not think about race the same as most minorities do. Whites really do not have to. Over the years, social scientists have studied "whiteness" because it has been labeled mainstream and is therefore "invisible." Not because people don't pay attention to whites or give whites power, but because being white is not something discussed. It is a given.
In general, whites certainly do not have to reaffirm that they are people beyond their race and that their race is not the center of their existences and decisions (although it is...subconciously). Minorities are the ones assumed to be consumed by the issue of race and the significance of our own races. Just like women are the ones who are assumed to be consumed with the issue of gender. Men just "live their lives and do what men do because gender doesn't matter."