How so? For starters.
American finance grew on the back of slaves
Economic Consequences of Segregation
GI Bill: White male affirmative action program
Predatory Lending in Black Communities and Black Wealth
African-Americans With College Degrees Are Twice As Likely to Be Unemployed as Other Graduates
America’s giant wealth disparity is driven by a history of racist redlining
Black Graduates From Top Colleges Face Discrimination In Job Search, Salaries
A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout
40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
Racial Bias and Interstate Highway Planning
Race, Opportunity and Uneven Development in Urban America
Racial Bias in Hiring: Black Sounding Names vs White Sounding Names
but please white people, tell me how you’re the true targets of racism.
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James Baldwin wrote a short story really focusing on the psyches of white people in the throes of enjoying a lynching.
StandardAnd when I tell you ya’ll MUST, MUST fucking read it.
It is so raw, and just so fucking good. I love him.
It’s called Going to Meet the Man, and is the last short story you can find in the collection that is also called Going to Meet the Man. It is so good.
my friend led a discussion about this at a lil gay conference and all the white men dipped lmao
Yo this note amount.
I JUST posted this, lmao.
But I’m glad. Please y’all go read that if you haven’t. I would type it all up and post it with a cut if I had the energy.
A Story with No Purpose, Part IV
StandardShe walked into the room we’d be sharing and exclaimed, “Thank God, another woman of color.” My feeling of lightness was instantaneous: the feeling of sinking into a warm bath.
I hadn’t interacted with a brown person since exchanging hair compliments with a black man at the airport. It had been twenty-four hours of rooms filled with white people. That morning, as a stopgap, I’d danced outside alone to Angel Haze, on repeat, feeling desperate.
We would have several conversations about marginalization during the white-filled, kink-fueled weekend, each heavier than the last.
Heavy can be good. Heavy keeps you grounded.
The Contradiction of white media
When they say “not all white people”
The Greatest
GOAT
Him and Malcolm X always explain stuff the way that other people couldn’t
White people won’t reblog this
(Source: http://kingofhispaniola.tumblr.com/)
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:
- i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
- most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
- im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
ALL OF THIS. Like, I’m white as hell. I’m pretty much translucent. But I have never understood the white people who get super pissy about the jokes aimed at us and try to say that it is fucking racism. Like… No… Please stop.
on the issue of racism, this is a great illustration.
minority racism towards white people is at most an inconvenience. a singular experience where their race works against them. a truly escapable type of experience because after it, they return to a society tilted in their favor. in fact, even during the experience, they never leave it. they never lose the advantage.
white racism towards minorities is systematic and destructive. we get jailed, shot dead, have our rights ignored, our rights slashed, neighborhoods targeted, job opportunities decreased, healthcare options constrained and more. all these things work together to create a understandable hatred towards whites. a hatred born out of pain, experience, oppression and disenfranchisement. a hatred that makes way more sense than white racism which is born out ignorance. a hatred that is fueled by the knowledge that whites, even those who swear to not be racist, by their actions and words perpetuate the system of oppression. their words of solidarity ring hallow.
i for one have never trusted easily but white people have a even harder time gaining my trust. very very few do. what’s most disheartening is when you extend that trust only to be betrayed. i had that happen to me a few months ago. that cut was deep but it was a learning experience. 99.99999% of whites are programmed to hate us. that’s just the truth.
As a white woman I wasn’t sure if I wanted to share this because it made me sad and uncomfortable. Then I realized that’s exactly why I need to share it.
white ppl think it’s really funny to tell you you aren’t black because they have this idea of what blackness is in their heads and like somehow your experiences negate you from subscribing to their understanding of blackness. think about the kind of privilege you need to have in order to think you have the authority to NEGATE SOMEONES RACE AND ARBITRARILY EXCLUDE THEM FROM THEIR OWN GROUP just cause you say so!!! I’m going to scream!!!
happens with latinx too… while I understand my privilege as a light skinned latina my culture has been white washed my whole life and now I have to rediscover it for myself and I have had people have say shit like “but you aren’t really latina” or “yeah but you don’t seem hispanic though so its ok” cause I don’t fit some stereotype :/ My mums awful white family made my dad ashamed of his heritage so much that he didn’t teach his kids much spanish, even changed his name to Alex for like 20 years cause they were uncomfortable saying Alejandro, never was allowed to speak spanish around them, was told to wait in the car instead of coming into the house because he wasn’t welcome, constantly sent emails by them telling him to go ‘back to his country’, was verbally abused constantly ….the white part of my family systematically destroyed his sense of cultural identity which then in turn excluded me from my heritage. So thats why I don’t find it funny when white people negate my ethnicity… if I don’t seem Latina enough for your stereotype, just remember that it was white people who did that to me. They’re Imperialistic even on a personal level … fuck
^^ I feel so so much. I am only just now rediscovering my Salvadoran roots and I am pretty much on my own since my white mom does not care and my Salvi dad and gma are pretty ashamed of where they came from.
experiences like this are so important for us to share. this is why community is so vital to survival.
10 Warning Signs for POC in Interracial Relationships
Standard1. If your significant other claims to, or is known to “have a thing” for men/women of your race.This is called fetishism, which generally consists of sexual/physical attraction based on stereotypes. For example: the “exotic” Asian/African women stereotype, the sexually potent Black male stereotype… If you’re with someone who just is “into” people of your culture, try asking them why.
2. If they have a friend with racist views.
Birds of a feather typically flock together, and when it comes to things like this, the rule still applies.3. If they don’t check (educationally confront) those friends when they express those views.
What you fail to speak against, is what you ALLOW to happen… I’ll leave it at that.4. If they don’t bring you around family members.
This is sometimes done to shield significant others from discrimination of family members… But beware, the mentalities of family members can be infectious…5. If they are ignorant of, or not making an effort to learn about you or the history/experiences of people of your ethnicity/culture.
Anyone who truly loves/appreciates a person will go out of their way to learn about the cultures which produced this person. That’s a no-brainer. When a person doesn’t make the effort to learn about the societal factors which shape the life of their significant other… that is a problem.6. If they claim to be “colorblind”, or that “race doesn’t matter” or any of that other so-called post-racial, fake liberal B.S.
A person who says this is lying. They’re not saying that race doesn’t matter to them…. they’re saying that deep analysis of such topics make them uncomfortable and for their sake they’d rather just ignore any differences. As the saying goes “being blind to race is just ignoring something that you already noticed.”
7. If you refer to dating them, or they refer to dating you as “trying something new”.
Doesn’t sound right to me… If you want to “try something new” try a new pair of shoes, or a new show on Netflix… But you don’t romantically try other ethnicities as if they’re flavors of Ice Cream, you experience people for who they are.
8. If you seem to be the only person of your race that they are fond of.
Do I need to explain this one?
9. If they cosign your criticisms of your ethnicity
I’ m not really a person who is big on criticizing members of my race when I’m around people outside of my race. Some discussions should stay “in the house” metaphorically speaking. But if you must talk about these kinds of these, your significant other should just be a listening ear. Anything more is out of line.
10. If they cannot, will not, are afraid to, or unable to have discussions on racism.
This is a symptom of a person who is living in denial, ignorance, or both. Either way, it ain’t healthy… Unless you’re in denial too, then y’all will probably get along fine.
Amandla Stenberg is showing a generation of black kids how to shut down racist trolls
While the racist reaction to her casting in The Hunger Games is perhaps what Amandla Stenberg is still most publicly associated with, in the mere three years since, she’s become a bold, outspoken, feminist role model. “That’s the least I can do, is try to start a conversation, try to get people thinking about a certain topic,” she told Mic.
We sat down with Stenberg to talk about her feminist awakening, using her celebrity for good and how her goal in life will help black girls everywhere.