Racism is real
oppression
Honestly.. When PoC get to an age where they are able to deeply realize and internalize how intensely and directly racism affects them, as well as able to recognize the little racial microaggressions against them, it truly IS a traumatic experience. Its draining and depressing and painful and scarring. It can very easily make you lose the will to do anything or dream anything. And that is something that whites will never experience, thus never understand how deep this goes.
it’s always funny to me that whites can sit in their little history classes and learn about the civil rights movement and be like “wow these people were so brave! the police and other white people were so evil back then :(” but then sit here today and call the baltimore protesters or the ferguson protesters “animals” for doing literally the same thing. Like you are the “racist white people” now. You are the the ones you deny affiliation with while reading those lessons. whites are so good at detaching themselves from their own white supremacy and erasing their crimes.
Freddie Gray had his spine severed by white cops. they literally beat this man to death but you want black people to peacefully protest? like are you serious? but when white peoples favorite sports team loses its okay for them to riot its alright for a bunch of sweaty white rednecks to riot over a bunch of guys throwing balls around for 3 hours but black people are wild animals when we riot for justice or yknow shit that actually matters
Johny Pitts on Strolling by Cecile Emeke: Whiteness, Malsculinity, Colourism & More (Full discourse HERE)
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Dear Blackout,
My mother has never called me by name,
she calls me beautiful
“How was your day, beautiful?”
“Beautiful, help clean up.”
“Yes, beautiful?”
And I believed her.
But then I turned on the tv,
flipped through the magazines,
saw the only thing deemed a “beauty”
to look nothing like me.
And as all the boys chased my friends,
with flirtatious words, fawning over fair faces,
mine received not one glance
not one word
and the silence erased my mother’s words
in a deafening, hollowing way.
But days like today,
moments like this,
I hear her loud and
clear
(once again)
“I see you, beautiful.”
“I love you, beautiful.”
”Beautiful.”
And so thank you, blackout,
for the reminder,
sweet as honey,
warm as my mother’s voice,
that my black is beautiful.
(You all are beautiful to me.)
-m.g.
please stop calling Black children who have different interests and tastes white
it’s damaging and alienating
Is it totally cool to recognize that you’re racist/biased so long as you’re aware and try to change? Or because you’re trying to change it no longer makes you racist/biased?
StandardEven if you promote equality, racism and discrimination is embedded in you since birth and it’s nearly impossible to break free from. I would always say that you’re working towards equality instead of “I am free of racism,” because you’re most definitely not free of any kind of racism.
xx SF
the reason oppressed groups say “___ are awful” instead of “some ___ are awful” is because including the word “some” allows individuals of that group to detach themselves from the problem and shuck the blame off and say “well they arent really talking about me so i can ignore their opinions”, whereas stating that an entire group of oppressors is awful makes the individual think whether or not theyre included in the awfulness of that group and makes them consider their actions so thats why people say “men are awful” or “white people are awful” and if you take it personally you’re getting angry at the wrong people
#if you take it personally you’re probably part of the problem