Me Directing my short film Lorraine’s Place. I couldn’t have done it without my wonderful Cast & Crew.
Because we as white folks know we don’t have to do that. We also know what other white people do won’t stick to us. We have 19 men who happen to be Arab and Muslim who fly planes into buildings, and we have otherwise rational human beings running around insisting that we should stop and search everyone like them at the airports.
We did not do this, or anything remotely like it, when Tim Mcveigh and Terry Nichols brought down the Building in Oklahoma City, nor would we have. We didn’t do it when the Unabomber, crazy ass white man in the woods of Montana, blowing people up for 20 years before they caught him. It didn’t stick to the rest of us who are white men.
The Olympic Park bomber, Eric Rudolph, puts a bomb in Olympic Village in Atlanta blows up a gay bar, blows up a family planning clinic. He too then runs off into the woods. As a side note: I have no idea what it is about white people and the woods.
So it doesn’t stick to us.
There have been about 105 family planning centers, some of which provide abortion services, many of which do not, that have been bombed or burned in the last 20 years, and every single one of them according to the FBI have been white. They have mostly been men. They claim to be Christian. Different lecture for a different night. 125 or more, 125 plus McVeigh and Nichols is 127, unabomber is 128. Eric Rudolph is 129. 129 confirmed terrorists who are white in this country in the last 20 years. It sticks to nobody who’s white. 19 Arab Muslims, and it sticks to everyone who either 700 million Arab folk on the planet, 1.5 billion Muslims on the planet. To assume that we know something about them, based on the acts of 19 is to commit what any statistician would tell you is sampling error. It is mathematical illiteracy.
And yet we do it because we can.
”Tim Wise - The Pathology of Privilege
http://youtu.be/Y2mjvFNOwmc?t=29m34s
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Dear George. great letter.
My tag for Kurt
Marion Cotillard, Alison Pill, Owen Wilson and Woody Allen on the set of Midnight in Paris (2011).
Congratulations to the Dallas Mavs. The Veteran Backbone holds it down under pressure… nuff said.
Holding it down…
George: Well Kersh, if Chewie pees on the floor one more time I think we need to rub his nose in it
Adam Sandler, Seth Rogan, Judd Apatow, Eric Bana and Leslie Mann on-set Funny People (2009)
