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The New Yorker has outdone itself yet again, publishing another strange article. This time, they’re basically claiming that the act of “sleeping” is somehow racially charged. According to them, rest and relaxation are exclusively white privileges. The New Yorker suggests that black individuals are rarely depicted at rest, and if you’re not surprised by the “power” of an image showing a black person sleeping, then you’re a racist.
Sorry if this is one of the most absurd things you’ll read today, but it’s crucial to watch out for the insanity coming from the left.
The politicization of rest is rooted in earlier black feminist writing: Alice Walker’s novel Meridian (1976) and Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters (1980) document the physical and psychic danger of fatigue for black women activists. Both works anticipate Audre Lorde and Hooks’ calls for black self-care, which Lorde, in her 1988 book “A Burst of Light,” describes as “an act of political warfare.” The pandemic, along with the latest wave of movement activism, has revived interest in rest. In 2022, theologian Tricia Hersey published “Rest Is Resistance,” a best-selling manifesto calling on all people, but especially black people, to hold back, not as a means to future productivity, but as an act of defiance . Earlier this year, Sosa and Navild Acosta’s participatory installation, “Black Power Naps,” which premiered in 2018 and debuted in New York in 2019, at Performance Space, was staged (with a bit more tension) in the predominantly blank space. of the mother The curators invited guests to sleep and rest as a means of “rejection[ing] institutionalized exhaustion” and “redistribute[ing] idleness, downtime and quality sleep.”
Elite white liberals are so unbelievably bored, they’re now politicizing naps, for god’s sake. Where does this end?
Is there anything more powerful than seeing a photo of a black person sleeping? pic.twitter.com/90JLT4TPcg
— Left (@LeftismForU) October 20, 2023
It’s hard to believe that this article isn’t satire. Written by condescending white individuals, it trots out a bunch of tried-and-true racial stereotypes that barely touch reality. Let’s be clear: Most people understand that black people, like everyone else on planet earth, rest and sleep on a regular basis. We don’t need rich white liberals to enlighten us on this front.
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