Theres actually an annual White Privilege Conference ** Among the Palefaces Yet another effort to start a conversation about race in America As a lifelong white person—or Person Without Color, for the more sensitively inclined—I have nothing against white people. I mean, sure, at this late date in their history, I’m all too aware of the dubious and disheartening white-people statistics. Nearly all Prius owners, Vineyard Vines wearers, and girls named “Addison” are white. Almost 8 out of 10 Canadians are white. And the most reliably annoying person in the world, Gwyneth Paltrow? You guessed it: white. Still, as a committed multiculturalist (I play Chinese checkers, drink Black Russians, and frequently Indian-give my kids’ allowance when running low on cash), I freely admit that black people have a lot to apologize for, too—as anyone who has ever been to a Tyler Perry movie can attest. So nobody’s perfect. And white people have inarguably enriched the culture as well, having invented everything from modern air conditioning to Yacht Rock. It was with bemused curiosity, then, that I approached the Whiteness Project, an “interactive documentary short” brought to us by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Whitney Dow, under the aegis of PBS’s POV, which bills itself as American television’s longest-running showcase for independent nonfiction films. After all, it’s hard to think of two entities that bring more unassailable authority to the subject of whiteness than PBS and guys named “Whitney.”
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:06:56 +0000
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