Is Miley Cyrus Racist?

Dear friends,

All of this brouhaha about Miley Cyrus is directly tied to the continued use and embrace of the moniker "white". That term only perpetuates racism. After all, many Latinos and Asians call themselves "white". The term white is nothing more than a mean-spirited claim that people make in order to be pot of an artificial "majority" group.

In fact, right here in America, before Adolf Hitler's sick fantasy about an Aryan race, Irish, Polish, Italians, and Jews were not even considered white. Still, the George Zimmerman privilege that people enjoy by calling themselves white is evident by the fact that those who call themselves white feel disempowered not to do so.. Again, they are just being mean-spirited!

Moreover, one of the major problems is: in a socially-stratified society such as ours, one can be a member of an oppressor group and an oppressed one simultaneously - the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill debacle proved that point quite adequately. Therefore, females who call themselves white, as well as homosexuals who do that, often blur the distinctions between those who are oppressed and those who oppress.

Yet, to me, all of the complaining about Miley Cyrus has little merit, since Tyler Perry movies and television productions, along with fake scholars like Michael Eric Dyson, and "jiggerboo" Jay-Z, because of the consistency of their attacks against African-American people, are far more harmful in terms of  both verbal and audio images for all youth, especially those of African descent.

G. Djata Bumpus
http://groupthink.jezebel.com/solidarity-is-for-miley-cyrus-1203666732