When the Hood Comes Off by Rob Eschmann

Author:Rob Eschmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520379725
Publisher: University of California Press

I really don’t care about making wypipo uncomfortable because majority of them are completely unaware of their privilege.

Anyway idk ever since I started working here I’ve experienced so much racism and it’s really testing me bc these wypipo don’t want this.

This willingness to make Whites uncomfortable is noteworthy, because so much of the literature focuses on how people of Color go out of their way to make Whites feel comfortable. In chapter 3, we discuss this as being one of the rules of racial discourse in many face-to-face settings. Even after experiencing racism, many people of Color stay quiet in order to not offend Whites with accusations of racism.16 Intentionally creating discomfort for White folks, then, may play a role in revealing various manifestations of White privilege.

Central to the double-consciousness problem is the notion that the conflict is internalized. During Du Bois’s time (and still today, in some contexts), externalizing responses to racism, especially aggressive responses, can be dangerous for Black people. As we discuss in chapter 3, there are rules for how Black people and people of Color can engage with White people. People of Color perceive, understand, and typically abide by these rules. Those that don’t may suffer socially, academically, and in their workplaces, and may even have negative encounters with the police if they act in ways that are deemed threatening. These discussions of actions taken against White people, then, are public declarations of the types of sentiment that are typically only “safe” behind closed doors, in counterspaces, or on the Black side of the veil. Double-sided consciousness entails the movement of these sentiments to the mainstream, as social media posts originating on Black Twitter are immediately visible on both sides of the veil.

Double-sided consciousness can also represent the promise of the “second-sight”—the ability to see the hidden mechanisms of oppression and domination—that Du Bois suggests Black people are gifted with. Only, instead of revealing this second sight in private, safe spaces, people of Color engage in these discussions in the open through public online discourse. This can include placing contemporary events in historical context or explaining why certain speech or behavior is problematic or offensive. Some tweets that do this read as intentional efforts at building consciousness among followers.

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