January 26, 2017
Americans Have to be Taught to 'Shut Their Mouths if They are White'
Says Democratic Party chair candidate as they discuss why they lost election
► The seven candidates running for Democratic National Committee chair met in D.C. last night for a candid discussion on the party's handling of race
► The most surprising outburst came from Sally Boynton Brown, a white woman from Idaho, who suggested that white people needed to sit back and listen
► She argued that the leaders of the Democratic Party had failed, pointing to how DNC chair candidates had to discuss how to deal with Black Lives Matter
► Brown suggested that members of the Democratic Party were prejudiced and that white people needed to learn more about what minorities experienced
► 'Until we shut our mouths,' she argued at the forum, 'We're not going to break through this'
By Nikki Schwab
Daily Mail
The sole white woman running for the job of Democratic National Committee chair said part of her job would be to shush other white people up, so that voices of color could be heard.
Sally Boynton Brown, who’s currently the executive director of Idaho’s Democratic Party – a state she joked was ‘so white, right?’ – suggested that those volunteering and leading the party needed ‘training’ to have hard conversations about race.
‘We have to teach them how to communicate, how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white,’ she said last night at a forum on race with the other six DNC candidates led by MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid.
Brown was broadly critical of the Democratic Party’s dealings on race, saying at the forum – held in D.C. last night at the George Washington University – that leaders had failed if there’s even a question about embracing the Black Lives Matter movement.
Of course they should be for it.
‘We have to accept that there is prejudice that exists within our own party and we have to be able to have that conversation,’ she said.
‘We cannot sweep that under the rug, we can’t continue to hide it, we cannot smash voices down when they are trying to scream listen to me, you don’t get it,’ she continued.
‘I’m a white woman, I don’t get it,’ she proclaimed.
She suggested that her job, as a white American, should be to listen – and check her privilege.
‘My job is to listen and be a voice and my job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt,’ she said.
‘My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, “Oh no I’m not prejudiced I’m a Democrat, I’m accepting,'” she continued.
Uh oh. The above is what clo does. As a white Democrat, she's going to have to learn to shut up and let herself be walked upon by everyone else.
‘My job is to make sure that they get that they have privilege and until we shut our mouths and we listen to those people who don’t … we’re not going to break through this,’ she went on.
As Democrats look to who will fill the shoes of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who resigned as DNC chair on the eve of the Democratic National Convention over the email hack, much has been made about the party losing Midwestern white voters.
A trio of Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states – Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania – allowed for there to be a Republican President Donald Trump.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4154226/Shut-white-people-argues-DNC-chair-hopeful.html
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