Scholar Denounces White Paint as Racist

In the liberal religion, being of European origin is the equivalent of original sin. So egregious is this sin that it spills over from skin color to anything white — even white paint.

Daniel Greenfield reports that the National Book Foundation has shortlisted A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint by Columbia University Associate Professor Wendy S. Walters for its nonfiction award:

When she saw the walls of her children’s school, she felt “apprehension” and wrote, “I could not stop thinking about the walls. I said to myself: They are so very white.”

Those of us not enlightened enough to be Ivy League professors used to regard white paint as sensible because it is neutral and reflexive. Pink walls would be LGBT-compliant but migraine-inducing. Black walls would be BLM-compliant but leave the room too dark. But now we know that, as Professor Walters puts it, “white paint represents something beyond itself” — namely, white supremacism.

Being tasked with bestowing enlightenment upon the little people down below the Ivory Tower can be stressful. Even fellow BIPOCs remain mired in ignorance:

After trying to convey her “disapproval of the new school’s white walls” to another black parent, only to be dismissed out of hand by a fellow black woman, Professor Walters “had a sense of foreboding, as if some kind of betrayal was imminent”. She began to weep while picking up “breakfast sausage” from the supermarket and thought “white paint is getting me down.”

Walters makes good money by finding white paint oppressive:

In 2020, Walters, who already had a Ford Foundation fellowship, received a $100,000 grant from Creative Capital to write a “book-length polemic against the use of white paint in both interior and exterior spaces” using money looted from the hijacking and destruction of the Doris Duke Foundation.

Scholars like Walters will never run short of material, because anything white can be denounced as racist. A few miles south of Columbia at NYU, a professor named Arthur Caplan revealed that milk is a white supremacist substance.

Take a look around you right now. Are you surrounded by white walls?

It’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than white paint. In A DEAD WHITE, cultural critic Wendy S. Walters seeks to trace the unquantifiable… pic.twitter.com/acVl2QRdaB

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