White Niceness as the Enemy of Black Liberation
<p>This is especially true of a certain brand of white people, many of us middle class and hailing from the Midwest. We pat ourselves on the back with pride for being [Your State Here] Nice. Where I grew up, in a state that is about 94% white and filled with Lutheran churches, we liked to say we’re<a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/iowa-ranks-worst-nation-racial-disparities-marijuana-arrests" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> Iowa Nice</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Niceness is about convenience. It’s about our comfort. It’s about control. </strong>It can never include disruptions. It is exactly what MLK disparages in his “<a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Letter from a Birmingham Jail</a>” as a “negative peace”, set up to keep the status quo.</p>
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