New York, NY – March 13, 2011 – We White People by Martha Glinski available on Amazon.com’s Kindle edition and BarnesandNobles.com.
For Immediate Release | Contact: Hana Glinski | hanaassociatespr@gmail.com
Known by art communities and collectors around the world for her captivating oil paintings, artist and humanitarian, Martha Glinski, adds to her works-to-date debut book, We White People, a spellbinding address to the perpetrators of the insidious tradition of racism, which continues to plague our global community – and more specifically – the psyche of the American, White racist.
“Racism has been a taboo topic, making clear the absurdity of calling upon society’s current Black cultural critics to answer for Our errors, when this is Our responsibility. The hazy confusion on a national level that believes that all of the problems We spawn by our refusal to personalize the struggle, demonstrates how disconnected We really are to any semblance of maturity when it comes to this specific arena. This keeps Us in the safe position of spectator, (Oprah’s sympathetic ‘good’ audience) tsk-tsking, and shaking Our heads at those ‘nasty racists.’ All the while, the mirror stands before Us, as all around Us, mounting evidence of Our actions, of Our neglect, is there to behold,” said Glinski.
WWP [developed in 2007 until Glinski’s death in 2010] chronicle’s the author’s firsthand accounts of racism at the hands of her White neighbors, and was loosely based around the presidential election campaign of Barack Obama [2008].
Glinski, unabashedly indiscreet about the self-destruction of the White racist, recited a popular quote: “’Racism will never be cured in MY lifetime!’ When uttered by a White person, it doesn’t seem so much to be said in despair, but as a matter of fact, and a shrug. This means that whoever uttered it hasn’t much intention to make improvements in him or herself, in order to end racism.”
WWP is 192 pages at $10.95 and available at:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/we-white-people-marthaglinski/1109453476?ean=2940014301084
http://www.amazon.com/We-White-People-ebook/dp/B007HQDL5G
Paperback copies and pre-order information to follow.
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The fact that We appear to be in charge this time around only means that we have the heaviest responsibility for having it this way; we are in charge because we have been ruthless, not because we are virtuous, better, or in any way superior to those we have merely outnumbered, or out maneuvered, unethically. – Martha Glinski
