{"id":6056,"date":"2016-12-27T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2016-12-26T18:05:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T23:05:49","slug":"how-post-election-questions-burden-people-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/12\/27\/how-post-election-questions-burden-people-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"How Post-Election Questions Burden People of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the weeks following Trump\u2019s election and the\u00a0<\/span>growing visibility of white nationalism<\/span><\/a>, people of color have received a barrage of unsolicited Tweets and emails asking them to weigh in. These inquiries often come from white people who, in their attempts\u00a0to be good allies, seek people of colors\u2019 perspectives and analyses regarding tough issues. Such action is often well-intentioned, but it can be taxing on those constantly being asked\u00a0their take, and it can leave some people feeling cornered into playing a “<\/span>race ambassador<\/a>“<\/span>\u00a0role. \u00a0In\u00a0<\/span>a candid conversation with\u00a0Slate<\/em><\/a>, sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>describes<\/span>\u00a0the emotional labor that these interactions demand from people of color. She said,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBlack people have one primary job: to manage white people\u2019s emotions. Their emotions are high right now and we\u2019re being overtaxed with it. And our various levels of individual privilege circumscribe how much we can push back on managing their emotions.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many of the inquiries she and other black women receive come from liberal white women reeling in disbelief over the high proportion of <\/span>white female voters who supported Trump<\/span><\/a>. Being put in this situation by white friends is a common occurrence for many people of color, and for black women especially. As Cottom describes,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe emails I get from people are epic. It has the extra gendered dynamic of expecting black women to midwife white women in crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the weeks following Trump\u2019s election and the\u00a0growing visibility of white nationalism, people of color have received a barrage of unsolicited Tweets and emails asking them to weigh in. These inquiries often come from white people who, in their attempts\u00a0to be good allies, seek people of colors\u2019 perspectives and analyses regarding tough issues. Such action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,85,14],"tags":[736,40391,39114,39110,39111],"class_list":["post-6056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-election","tag-emotional-labor-politics","tag-gender","tag-inequality","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}