Wendy Bell comes back from a long weekend where we celebrated Independence day w/ a rant about why she hates America. Karen exposes her 3%-er, transphobic, racist self like never before.
— JON (@JonInPGH) July 6, 2021
Imagine being this miserable just to get 1,500 people to watch your basement videos. pic.twitter.com/Odo3BAjACA
It's a long list of Karen-grievances but I want to talk about this part:
Race: If your race defines who you are, you will forever be enslaved by victimhood. Americans don’t hate each other based on appearance. We see through the constant race-baiting the media peddles, and we’re done with it.
Before we go any further, let me point out here that while I may not know much I do know that I have no idea what it's like to be black
in America (or anyplace else for that matter). Not a clue. And as a middle-aged Italian-American, it is not my place to define for any person of color what racism is or how any POC should react to it.
But what about Wendy? Here's Damon Young from five years ago:
[L]ike many otherwise pleasant, kind, and professional White people, Wendy Bell is utterly clueless about race, White privilege, and how her privilege contributes to her tone deaf myopia in regards to race. This was made clear earlier this week, when the anchor took to Facebook to share her thoughts about the massacre in Wilkinsburg.
Again, this was five years ago and back then Wendy may very well have been pleasant, kind and professional. However, since White Wendy's first firing, we've learned otherwise.
Indeed, within a few years Young calls her "America's Worst White Woman."
But let's get back to the nice white lady lecturing the world from her cheaply wood-paneled basement. It takes a great deal of choot-spah for a Wendy to presume, well, anything here, isn't it? Like, all of it. Each underlying assumption to each sentence is a reflection of her own prejudices.
I'd like to point out something to her. She's mentioned a few times that she has five sons - college and high school age, I believe. Their lives are looking far different from the lives of five college and high school age African-American men, does she know this?
For example, she, presumably, doesn't have to worry about this for her sons:
Black youth were more than five times as likely to be detained or committed compared to white youth, according to data from the Department of Justice collected in October 2015 and recently released. Racial and ethnic disparities have long-plagued juvenile justice systems nationwide, and the new data show the problem is increasing. In 2001, black youth were four times as likely as whites to be incarcerated.
Is Wendy Bell really that tone deaf when it comes to race?
Do we really need to ask?
