In clubhouse (a voice-only app), I've had the chance to listen to lots of rooms of entirely black people talk, which I rarely get to hear in my daily life. It turns out black people on clubhouse talk about being black a *lot*. They reference blackness in relation to everything.
but when i'm with white people we almost never talk about whiteness, and dont relate it to other things in conversations. We just... have conversations. I don't get why black people dont just... have conversations.
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I am noticing that after a single experience of being made to notice your whiteness, you started a conversation about it.
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? I've traveled the world and been the single white person in predominantly black areas, but whiteness there felt different - sort of incidental - than whiteness in those clubhouse rooms. After an experience of explicit othering based on my race, yes I started a conversation.
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I've spent my entire life being the only black person in white spaces. White people absolutely center whiteness in their conversations; it just presents differently because history happened.
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Do you have an example of how they center whiteness in a conversation?
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Ya so Im not necessarily expecting you to agree on this, but poc friends often talk about how whiteness has just become so embedded as the cultural default that you dont *need* to talk about it. For black people talking about it is a bit of an escape from that default.
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Im just saying thats where you might want to look if you really wanted to understand the phenomenon. But also you're talking about clubhouse so its probably a particularly political or issue oriented group of people. Not very representative maybe.
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