Being White: Seeking Becoming as a Pallor Submissive Ally in a World of Large Strap-On Penises of Dominant Blackness
By: Michael Smith, Ph.D. in Existentialist Sarcasm, Northeast Mississippi College of Philosophy and Animal Husbandry
Author’s Note: After my rant this morning, I thought you might need a little humor!
What follows are lightly rewritten and stitched together excerpts from a dozen or so real this morning - including a real paper titled Woke Pedagogy: A Framework for Teaching and Learning written by a Ph.D. at Texas A&M. I was inspired by the TED talk and other interviews of the current NPR CEO, Katherine Mayer, in which she spouted so much academic gibberish and so many buzz words, she seems a typical affluent white female liberal (and AWFL) who claim Beyonce or Oprah as her spirit animal.
Being White: Seeking Becoming as a Pallor Submissive Ally in a World of Large Strap-On Penises of Dominant Blackness
This morning, as I listened to NPR, I began to wonder if I, as a white cis male, could ever ascend to such a level as to fulfill the intentionality of the moment and become and acceptable subservient role model to Blacks, Latines and other folx of color.
The sociopolitical context of my journey demands that I, and other white cis males, acknowledge the ways our own experiences are shaped by the intersections of racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and other discriminatory factors. This is especially true during times of heightened civil unrest resulting from pervasive, persistent, institutional, and systemic injustice experienced by minoritized populations.
As an apologia, whites must renounce our privilege and submit to becoming instructors of our own evil. We must remember that the lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains.
We must endeavor to engage students of history through a pedagogy that connects with their lived experiences and that equips them to critically examine inequities, we must become anti-racist teachers who refute colorblind pedagogy in favor of a woke pedagogy. Woke pedagogy, like critical multicultural education, is defined by teaching practices that integrate critiques of contemporary justice-related issues with academic content in a learning environment that encourages introspection, interrogation, and insurgence – and most of all, admission of white heteronormativity, complicity, and guilt.
To do so is to move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in a relatively homologous way of viewing hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, reimagining and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marks a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemon as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
This theoretical framework outlines a wide range of knowledge, skills, and dispositions that equip us to become teachers who promote critical thinking about complex issues—in other words, to become woke pedagogues.
As always, all such pedagogy will be grounded in Black feminist ideology, and a woke pedagogy distinguishes itself from critical multicultural education in important ways: 1) both the teachers and students will view their lived experiences as the only sources of truth, 2) this personal truth will form the basis for knowledge and tools for knowledge creation and 3) teachers will submit to students as they analyze injustice from an intersectional perspective, and 4) we, as submissive teachers, will exhibit activist care to protect the students from uneducated thoughts and deeds.
Of course, this visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless, fascination; thinking about its attributes becomes adjunct to that, if it is unwilling to betray its object; while the most austere films necessarily draw their energy from the attempt to repress their own excess (rather than from the more thankless effort to discipline the viewer). Since thought is seen to be “rhizomatic” rather than “arboreal,” the movement of differentiation and becoming is already imbued with its own positive energy.
And there you have it.
Well, now you did it…
Unlicensed has become Unbridled…..
Punditry has become pusilanamity……
Unbridled Pusilanamity !
Eschew obsfucationous obliqueness !!
Congratulations! An utterly meaningless woke word salad (but I repeat myself)!