{"id":263874,"date":"2021-03-20T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=263874"},"modified":"2021-03-20T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T14:30:38","slug":"graham-the-racist-sound-of-whiteness-is-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-racist-sound-of-whiteness-is-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: The Racist Sound Of \u2018Whiteness Is A Pandemic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-the-racist-sound-of-whiteness-is-a-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=263874&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2301.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Root is obviously a hyperbolically racial magazine, since its slogan is \u201cThe Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth.\u201d It\u2019s not surprising that it frequently publishes writer Damon Young, author of the memoir \u201cWhat Doesn\u2019t Kill You Makes You Blacker.\u201d We\u2019re told he asked important and dramatic questions like \u201cWill this white person\u2019s potato salad kill me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young\u2019s memoir was honored as \u201crequired reading\u201d by NPR and celebrated by Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post, among others. He became a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The paranoia overflowed from this self-described \u201cprofessional Black person\u201d on St. Patrick\u2019s Day. Young posted a piece titled \u201cWhiteness Is a Pandemic.\u201d This was not a joke. It began: \u201cWhiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people \u2014 white people and people who are not white, my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We can all imagine what might happen professionally to a writer if he were to pen this kind of foam-flecked copy but instead talk about \u201cBlackness.\u201d It\u2019d be denounced as virulently racist. But to hate everything about the infestation of Caucasians is not defined as \u201chate speech.\u201d It\u2019s somehow \u201canti-racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article ended the same way: \u201cWhite supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we\u2019ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won\u2019t hold my breath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We could develop our own paranoia that this sounds like a call to isolate and kill the whites like we would a virus.<\/p>\n<p>Young\u2019s news hook was the terrible mass shooting in Georgia, where a white man killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent. He blamed former President Trump and the Republicans, no matter what the unfolding evidence shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA line can and should be drawn from the actions of the white supremacist \u2026 to the relentless anti-Asian rhetoric pollinating national discourse over the past year,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe former president, and the party of the former president, can and should be blamed for this and the sudden increase of racist violence against Asian Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This kind of writing cannot be \u201cfact-checked,\u201d since it\u2019s more performance art than journalism, like a one-man show at a radical-left coffeehouse. These are fighting words meant to inflame and draw attention to the writer. It\u2019s no dialogue about \u201chealing.\u201d He\u2019s not interested in that, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he wrote a New York Times piece headlined \u201cYeah, Let\u2019s Not Talk About Race.\u201d Young overflowed with contempt for white people who try to tell him they loved his book and want to have a \u201cSerious Conversation About Racism (SCAR),\u201d as in getting \u201cSCAR-bombed at Jiffy Lube.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that these conversations are a waste of his precious time for a \u201cprofessional Black person\u201d such as himself. Raging against racism is his full-time job, so white sympathizers should not attempt to talk with him. \u201c(Y)ou\u2019re asking me to work for you for free,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also employed a \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d analogy, writing, \u201cI doubt the Road Runner, after a day of outrunning, outscheming and outlasting Wile E. Coyote, wishes to come home and explain coyote supremacy to the liberal coyotes who live in his neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who encourages this manic monologue is encouraging never-ending hatred and division.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Root is obviously a hyperbolically racial magazine, since its slogan is \u201cThe Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth.\u201d It\u2019s not surprising that it frequently publishes writer Damon Young, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888291,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}