Once again, a privileged white man, who made his riches in one narrow area, comic stripping, now feels qualified to rant from his ivory tower. Based on the so-called results of a facile-worded poll question, “Is it OK to be white?” Dilbert creator claimed that that convinced him white people should live apart from black people.
Of course, I call bullshit. No one, not even a mansplaining privileged white man, is so easily convinced of such a radical position because of the result of a mere poll question. More than likely, his racial animus was well nurtured and brewed until it boiled over.
Since the concept of race is a pseudoscientific social construct of oppression, I’ll address all my questions to the fictional character, Dilbert. And why the hell not? The so-called basis for Dilbert’s creator’s call for racial separation is also based on fiction. The only difference is his fiction is far more dangerous.
- 1. Who should mixed-raced blacks live among? There’s no dilemma among those of us who identify as black, but would you allow blacks who identify as white to live among you, regardless of their skin tone? I imagine you consider yourself not racist, so would white-identifying blacks be able to live in your all-white society? Would they be allowed if they are culturally white and pass the brown paper bag test?
- 2. Is whiteness based on skin tone or cultural adherence? Would you allow those blacks who are so “articulate that you forget they’re black” to live in your all-white society? Or do they need to be on-sight white, regardless of how well they speak, hard they work, or how much money they make? Who gets to shield themselves under the umbrella of whiteness, sparing them from the debilitating drench of racist exclusion?
- 3. Would any other race of people who are also richly melaninated, but not black, be permitted to live in your all–white community? Would South East Asians, Pacific Islanders and Latinos be allowed to live among whites if they can easily pass a comb through their hair, regardless of if they can pass for white? In other words, how dark is too dark for people who cannot sport an afro?
- 4. Does a Jewfro count as an afro? Would you allow Jews to live in your all-white society, regardless of whether they can naturally style their hair into a Jewfro or not? Or will your sequestered-from-blacks society solely depend on having a low melaninated skin tone?
- 5. If I’m 1/16th white, does that make me less racist against whites, according to your calculations? BTW, my mother is 1/8th white. Would you consider her a “reverse octoroon”?
- 6. In your all white community, would you regulate media so that no racially-diverse programing is experienced? Would you permit black music or any genre based on black music? Would you only play black music if only covered by white people? Would you form parallel versions of professional sports? How separated do you need to be from blacks?
- 7. In your white society, who would you hire others to do those jobs where whites are underrepresented in an integrated society? Even the founding fathers embraced diversity when it came to the workforce, especially jobs that were deemed unsuitable for respectable white people.
- 8. Lastly, if you achieve your all-white society who will be the new niggers?