Tag Archives: MomsForLiberty

The white man privilege of Stephen King

11 Nov
Photograph of Stephen King looking meanly at the camera, text below reads:

When books are run out of school classrooms and libraries, I'm never much disturbed. Not as a citizen not as a writers, not even as a schoolteacher, which I used to be.

What I tell kids is don't get mad, get even.

Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead run, don't walk, to the nearest non-school library or the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned.

Read whatever they are trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know." --Stephen King

There are far too many “well-meaning” white liberals who see this quote and immediately share it everywhere, cheering about what a “good ally” and “inspiration” the guy is.

“Don’t march, don’t protest, don’t wave signs, just go to the public library or the store and get the books they’re banning.”

Me, I marvel at the shortsighted ignorance of white man privilege.

Continue reading