In a word: Yes. She apparently feels personally inferior to white women, and empowered when they aren't around. She therefore wants to have a secure zone, without those other threatening beings in their presence.
This is the same sentiment that has given rise to the Sons of the Confederacy, the John Birch Society, and any number of religions who promote themselves as Chosen People. All of these -isms, are, in my opinion, based on the idea that if there were a level playing field, the people in the subjugating group couldn't really compete with folks in the subjugated group. Therefore, the ones who feel threatened band together and exclude those they feel threatened by. It's kind of paradoxical, but they get their power through denying power to others, and finding safety in numbers.
That humans are fundamentally a tribal race, and clump into little groups of similar-traited individuals spontaneously even as toddlers, only encourages this. (They spend a lot of time in pre-schools forcing the kids to play with *all* of the kids, and not allowing these groups to form, because they become cliques and then mean to other children very fast.)
The real cure is to teach that life is a game of SET, where color is only one trait among many, and one needs to consider age, gender, educational background, personal interests, etc., before picking one's "tribe." I like to point to FoxTrot, where Jason and Marcus are both the same age, like the same subjects in school, and share a love of sci-fi and blowing things up. They have a *lot* in common, and only their skin color is different. That attitude needs to get around more in the real world.
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(Anonymous) 2009-03-28 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)This is the same sentiment that has given rise to the Sons of the Confederacy, the John Birch Society, and any number of religions who promote themselves as Chosen People. All of these -isms, are, in my opinion, based on the idea that if there were a level playing field, the people in the subjugating group couldn't really compete with folks in the subjugated group. Therefore, the ones who feel threatened band together and exclude those they feel threatened by. It's kind of paradoxical, but they get their power through denying power to others, and finding safety in numbers.
That humans are fundamentally a tribal race, and clump into little groups of similar-traited individuals spontaneously even as toddlers, only encourages this. (They spend a lot of time in pre-schools forcing the kids to play with *all* of the kids, and not allowing these groups to form, because they become cliques and then mean to other children very fast.)
The real cure is to teach that life is a game of SET, where color is only one trait among many, and one needs to consider age, gender, educational background, personal interests, etc., before picking one's "tribe." I like to point to FoxTrot, where Jason and Marcus are both the same age, like the same subjects in school, and share a love of sci-fi and blowing things up. They have a *lot* in common, and only their skin color is different. That attitude needs to get around more in the real world.
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