I sat this morning (early) and watched a 45-second piece....some close-up of a mid-20s gal....explaining her position on the Lindsay Clancy court case, and dwelling on her personal feelings....as a "non-practicing white".
Yeah....obviously she is 'pure-white' and she's discussing the bitter part of this court 'saga' triggered by a black-guy (probably a practicing black guy....if you ask me).
But my question is....what exactly is practicing in this context to mean?
Could I be a practicing PhD guy? Or perhaps....practicing British royal? Or maybe....a practicing NFL player? Is there a limit to this practicing business?
I asked AI (Grok) about this. It suggested that....."some white people analogize distancing from "whiteness" (viewed as a system of privilege and supremacy) to being non-practicing in a religion, aiming to signal allyship." Yeah...more or less telling you with a 'wink' that they only pretend to be white....while practicing to be some 'other thing'.
Blacks watching this? I would imagine they are mostly laughing over the 'talk'/suggestion, and letting the poor person play this out (seeing how far it'd go).
Like a cult? It took me about 15 minutes of analyzing this....to grasp that it's fairly close to being cult-like thinking.
I then asked Grok (AI)....if it could go the other way....being a non-practicing-black? Well yeah....says Grok.
Grok said: "The same logic that produced “non-practicing white.” That term treats race less as ancestry or appearance and more as a set of cultural habits, political attitudes, and “rituals” a person can opt out of. Apply that consistently and a person of African descent could reject the expected scripts of American Black identity—particular speech patterns, political solidarity, church culture, or the idea that race should be central to every opinion—and call themselves “non-practicing Black".”
But then Grok said: "In practice the label is almost never used that way. Current identity frameworks treat “whiteness” as something one should distance from and “Blackness” as something one cannot or should not distance from."
Rational thought.....but crazy-talk.
My perception? If you were a guy in his 18-to-30 age range....you need to pay attention to who you meet up with....asking a few questions before the date, and get to the end-point....is she a practicing-half-wit, or just a regular non-practicing half-wit, or almost normal 'wit'? Stuff like this now matters.
