PERPETUALLY HOWLING DOGS OF THE IRRATIONAL LEFT: Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It's Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist

First, I must note how much I love Tom Hanks as a performer, Hollywood citizen and all-around stand-up guy.

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Of course, he's a consummate actor, with two Oscars and starring roles in landmark films such as Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. He's been an outspoken advocate for gay rights and environmentalism. He even helped us get through the pandemic, setting a graceful, confident example when he and his wife, Rita Wilson, were among the first celebrities publicly revealed to have COVID-19.

So when I saw he recently had written a guest essay for The New York Times calling for more widespread teaching about the Tulsa Race Massacre – when white mobs in Oklahoma burned a prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground in 1921, killing between 100 and 300 people — I was sincerely heartened.

Now, I thought, we'll see him examine how his work — so often focused on the achievements of virtuous white, male Americans – may have made it tougher for tales about atrocities such as Tulsa to find similar space.

But he didn't fully go there. Here's what he did say:

"History was mostly written by white people about white people like me, while the history of Black people — including the horrors of Tulsa — was too often left out. Until relatively recently, the entertainment industry, which helps shape what is history and what is forgotten, did the same. That includes projects of mine."

He goes on to say he learned of Tulsa from an article in The New York Times last year.

And, another line, later in the piece:

"Today, I think historically based fiction entertainment must portray the burden of racism in our nation for the sake of the art form's claims to verisimilitude and authenticity."

These are wise words. And it's wonderful that Hanks stepped forward to advocate for teaching about a race-based massacre – indirectly pushing back against all the hyperventilating about critical race theory that's too often more about silencing such lessons on America's darkest chapters.

But it is not enough.
He's built a career playing righteous white men

After many years of speaking out about race and media in America, I know the toughest thing for some white Americans — especially those who consider themselves advocates against racism — is to admit how they were personally and specifically connected to the elevation of white culture over other cultures.

But in Hanks' case, he is no average American. Or average Hollywood star, for that matter.

.https://www.npr.org/2021/06/13/1005725990/tom-hanks-is-a-non-racist-its-time-for-him-to-be-anti-racist

shuddup

PERPETUALLY HOWLING DOGS OF THE IRRATIONAL LEFT: Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It's Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist

PERPETUALLY HOWLING DOGS OF THE IRRATIONAL LEFT: Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It's Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist

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