Tuesday, June 18, 2013

MSNBC Panel Suggests Racist Motivation by Pro-lifers, Goal of “Reproducing Whiteness.” By Brad Wilmouth.

MSNBC Panel Suggests Racist Motivation by Pro-lifers, Goal of “Reproducing Whiteness.” By Brad Wilmouth. NewsBusters, June 17, 2013.

Invoking race in the abortion debate. Video. The O’Reilly Factor. Fox News, June 18, 2013.

New Republican effort to regulate women’s bodies. Video. Melissa Harris-Perry. MSNBC, June 15, 2013. Salamishah Tillet comment on white supremacy starts at 7:45 in video.


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Tillet:

Well, I think, the Census just released data, so part of it is the changing racial demographics in the United States. For the first time in American history, children born under the age of five are racial, the majority of them are racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S.

So I think that there’s a kind of moral panic, a fear of the end of whiteness that we’ve been seeing a long time in that I think, you know, Obama’s ascension as President kind of symbolizes to a certain degree. And so I think this is one response to that sense that there’s a decreasing white majority in the country and that women's bodies and white women’s bodies in particular are obviously a crucial way of reproducing whiteness, white supremacy, white privilege. And so I think it’s just a kind of clamping down on women’s bodies, in particular white women's bodies, even though women of color are really caught in the fray.