Kavanaugh culture is the reason why race recovery is an approach whose time has come.
These invisible women who claim Kavanaugh has harmed them should be heard out and treated with at least a modicum of respect, precisely because they have now become a place holder for the invisible women whose lives he will shape for years to come. That some women are said to count more than others is not a defense to the current charges. It is the definition of the problem.
In race recovery we are not content to look at the disdain which has left blacks disadvantaged but the ugly cover up that cultural competence promotes.
Even I knew, back in the ’80s when I was in high school, that there was a tradition of male flaunting conquest at the expense of girls for the appearance of ego for boys – I was a subject of just such a tale. So the notion that the purity with which men try to paint the boyhood lives, I know is untrue. I also understand that things that measure much deeper to things like self worth drive boys to do so such things. Thus denying that these things ever occurred exposes the very thing that they are meant to dispute – these behaviors represent flawed notions of self worth and power.
Each boy who fell prey to the idea that looking fearless to his peers was more important than standing in the wholeness of those same fears are the same people who insist that blacks should be empathized but not empowered. They miss that the real problem is their scramble for power and position at the expense of women or blacks is their problem, not mine. And I for one am done fueling that flame. I’m OUT.
White men, your time is drawing nigh. It does no good to demonize how you got to this place or that you work so hard to preserve it. The world can no longer relish in the riches that have come from your dysfunction. We would rather live in the purity of poverty than in the shadow of the insecurity that you’ve built.
So for Kavanaugh and all of the other WHITE men out there, be careful what you hail as your right to power because it will fuel a response the likes of which you have not seen
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