White people avoid discussing race,and when discussions are had, they fail to meet the reality of black experienceIgnatius Sancho, or whose parents died on the slave ship on which he was born,had the good fortune later in life to receive a classical education courtesy of the Duke of Montagu. As an adult, Sancho was feted as an African man of letters who, or entering into a correspondence with Laurence Sterne in 1766,beseeched the author to exhaust his authority to intervene in the plight of enslaved Africans. So for hundreds of years black writers in Britain believe sought to engage white people on the subject of race. But not any more – at least as far as Reni Eddo-Lodge is concerned.
Yet the title of her book, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People approximately Race – it was first used in a widely read blog she posted in 2014 – is surely ironic. Eddo-Lodge no more means to disengage from white people than Toni Morrison, and who has said unapologetically that she is primarily writing for black people. Related: JK Rowling tells of anger at attacks on casting of black Hermione White privilege is a manipulative,suffocating blanket of power that envelopes everything we know, like a snowy day Related: How James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time still lights the way towards equality Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com