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Lois Banner
How can anyone argue, at this point in time, that it is not a whole helluva lot easier to be nonwhite than it is to be white?
It’s just a matter of obvious fact that nonwhites have all of these special privileges designed to make their lives easier. These are real world, concrete benefits that you can list off.
Beyond the concrete benefits, we can see that people treat nonwhites as special, giving them different treatment on the one-on-one level, giving them all kinds of leeway and special opportunities that they don’t offer to whites.
I can’t even understand how this could be controversial, even if you support the system.
Guests at the recent Berkshire Conference of Women Historians are expressing fury after one of the event’s venerable cofounders — an elderly white scholar — said she wished she had dark skin so her professional life had been easier, according to numerous tweets from professors in the audience.
“Well, the Berks plenary just took a turn. A white senior scholar at the 50th anniversary plenary VERY publicly, and unapologetically, said that she wished she was Black so her professional life would be easier,” tweeted attendee Stephanie Narrow, a history PhD candidate at UC Irvine.
“She was immediately called out for her blatantly racist remarks, and refused to apologize, let alone listen, to the reason why her remarks were horrifying[ly] wrong. ‘You won’t change my mind, I’m 84 years old,’” Narrow continued in her June 30 tweet thread. “The room is shaken, it’s palpable.”
The offending culprit has been identified by numerous activist female historians on Twitter as Lois Banner, professor emerita of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California, described by her faculty bio as “a founder of the field of women’s history in the 1970s” as well as the author of 10 books.
“Banner — author of a 2012 biography of Marilyn Monroe — reportedly also said she wished she was a lesbian because they were good at building community and organizing,” reported the Daily Beast. “…Banner’s speech came after historian Deborah Gray White of Rutgers University had addressed the crowd on the subject of Black women in the profession.”
Deirdre Cooper Owens, a history professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, tweeted July 2 that the “Berks Conference was a beautiful one until it was soiled by Lois Banner’s hatefully racist comments. Yes, I did speak out forcefully against her vitriol because she needed to keep Black women’s name out of her mouth.”
Judith Weisenfeld, professor of religion at Princeton University, chimed in with a June 30 tweet: “I’m grateful for Deirdre Cooper Owens naming Lois Banner’s Berks remarks (that she wished her skin was dark and she had never experienced any privilege from being white) as hateful and self-hate …”
Paul Renfro of Florida State University told the Daily Beast that Banner “made this allusion to this desire that she’s always had, to have dark skin, which is very, very, very problematic.”
“And so when that happened, the awkward, sort of strange response that many in the audience had to the remarks that came before kind of mutated into almost sort of just complete discomfort and revulsion,” Renfro said. “Some people gasped audibly, and some people began to walk out.”
Aside from the fact that these people are denying obvious realities, the abuse of the elderly is just so nasty.
I’m sure I don’t agree with this woman on most things, but I wouldn’t get up in the face of an 84-year-old woman.
This claim that all of these new values – most of which did not appear until after this woman’s 70th birthday – should be adopted immediately and without question by elderly people who are already suffering from memory problems, shows just how disconnected these people are.
If the tables turn, the right-wing takes over, and in 50 years you have some 84-year-old millennial woman saying “race and gender are just social constructs,” no one is going to be threatened by that. No one is going to abuse the old woman. Instead of gasping and becoming outraged, people might giggle a little bit, and think it is sort of cute, in a sad way, that the programming millennials underwent lasted into their old age.
The reason these people become outraged over someone disagreeing with them, even a little bit, is because they are wrong. It’s the only reason you would be outraged over words.
This is funny, but let’s not forget women don’t belong in academia, regardless of race
