White Noise, Black Politics | The Nation
In White America's version of Noah's Ark,
There are no black people present on Noah's Ark!
There are no black people present when God destroys the world!
There are no black people present when God reconstructs the world!
There are no black people present durnig the stages of nation building!
Black people have been ERASED!
The director's response to the nonexistance of black people in the film: He wants it to be a film that everyone can see.
Huh???
Erasure is problamatic!
In America, words such as UNIVERSALISM! COLOR BLIND! POST-RACIAL!
are bantered about daily.
Since the election of the first African-American president in America, President Obama, these words/phrases have been unearthed and flung from the guts of every guilt ridden, white, racist looking for a salve to ease the pain of white guilt. This guilt is theirs and theirs alone; it is rooted in their participation in and perpetuation of the enslavement of Africans in America! "White Noise" lurches from the earth's floor, pings on the four walls of America while blaring, screaming, denying blackness and the existance of an entire nation of people whom they WRONGED for four generations.
246 years!
DENY! DENY! DENY! Their refrain.
I am sick of their noise!
Erasure is problamatic!
And
I don't like
"White Noise."
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