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Do you know how many of my students can’t even say the word white? You all will talk about African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans all day long but at soon as it comes time to say white peoples’ voices drop. You ain’t have seen that? Come on man, people come up with crazy terms you have never seen before, they would be like: “And that Caucasoid…” You can always tell, you could always tell where the supreme power rests in the society because of the reluctance people have in naming that power.
Part of what privilege requires, guys privilege cannot operate without silence. It cannot operate without silence, and this tremendous silence around whiteness, if you are foolish enough to post a blog on your Facebook that mentions whiteness the amount of attacks that you will get, because privilege defends itself viciously, to maintain the silence that is required for its operation.
So, given this I would argue that the other thing that we need to do is coming off of James Scott’s idea of “anarchist calisthenics,” we need to practice racial anarchist calisthenics. What he, what Scott meant by anarchist calisthenics is that this society has ton of little rules that we all practice without thinking. And he argues that we need to practice breaking little rules consistently because one day this society is going to ask you to prosecute a horrifying rule, that I think we will long live to regret, and the muscles of resistance needs to be exercised, they need to be prepared for the time we need to make that big, big, big, big stand.
And so racial anarchist calisthenics, I would say, begins with all of us getting that tongue muscle back in to place and saying Saurons name. I challenge people; I challenge people every time you say African-American, Asian-American, whatever the group count it and say white just as much. And say white just as much. We don’t do it you guys, we don’t do it, we don’t do it. And yet if we were ever going to confront in a real way white supremacy, which is not only linked to white folks you guys. White supremacy is the racial order in all of us, but if we are not able to discuss whiteness as a category, as a critical way of looking at the world and even simply as just the racial group, we are in some serious trouble. The reality is even if we took every white person on Earth and put them on a space ship and sent them to outer space white supremacy wouldn’t miss a beat.
”Junot Díaz - Facing Race (2012)
I once posted a link on my fb about white privilege, explaining what it is. And I got responses from white people about how natives are the ones who have privilege and take away from them. The link never even mentioned Natives!
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WHY ARE WHITE CIS GAY MEN SO DAMN ENTITLED
List of reasons:
- White
- Cis
- Men
^nailed it.
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TRANSCRIPT.
(Freshly typed. I’m not a professional, but I think I caught everything. Um… no idea how to parse the sentence, but whatever.)
Woman: Uh, everything about our nation and god and everything.
Man: Uh, huh.
Woman: I just want to know, how much do you love your country?
Man: What is your nationality?
Woman: I’m confused.
Man: About your heritage.
Woman: so what is my nationality, what colour are all y’all?
Man: Alright. Let me explain. Let me help you out. Let me help you understand.
Woman: defend it, I love all of you.
Man: At one time, Jewish people lived in Germany, you understand that right ?
Woman: I’m German as well.
Man: I know, that is why I asked you what is your nationality. At one time Jewish people lived in Germany, didn’t they?
Woman: Did they?
Man: And during WW1 they fought for Germany, they loved Germany. Until one day Adolf Hitler begins to exterminate them and then they turned on their country and went for a land of their own.
Well, this is what you have to understand: we have served this stinking country. There is nobody more patriotic than Black people. We are the people that die in your wars, build your cities, and raise your children and bleed in your all of your wars and reap none of the benefits.
There is nobody more patriotic than us. There is nobody that served America more than us, until one day we found out that this is the land of our oppressor, this is not our homeland. So we decided to go found our own land. So we decided to go find the land of our ancestors, just like the Jewish people did in Germany.
Know what the, the problem with white people is? You don’t respect anybody’s humanity except for your own. You don’t respect anybody’s pain, except for your own.
You expect Jewish people to hate Hitler and hate the Nazis, but you can’t understand why we should hate you. You can’t understand that because you’re not human. And you’re cruel. And you’re selfish. And if you had any love and compassion in your heart, you would know how much you deserve to be hated. If you had any love in your heart.
You white people are merciless. And you hate to look at anybody as a human being.
How dare you ask us: “have you loved America?”!? [background woman crying, ‘you’re horrible’] We have loved you for forever. And you have always hated us.
We have loved you consistently for 400 hundred years. We prayed to that white Jesus. And we saluted your flags. And we died in your militaries. And you beat us like dogs.
How dare you ask us, “Have we loved you?”!?
I have a question for you. When in the hell have you loved anybody but yourself? [woman crying and pointing, saying ‘you’re horrible’]
Give me Ezekial 35 (? Not sure what is said here)
I’m looking at you square in your eyes and tell you this:
That you are completely cruel. And you know why your heart is broke? Because I’m telling you the truth for the first time in your life.
Your whole life you thought that you’ve been compassionate and caring, but meanwhile, you know what you are? Just another white girl standing on stolen ground, [background, ‘what? what?’] reaping the benefits of bloody fathers.
Woman: You’re horrible.
Man: That is what you are. Even though you think you’re so liberal and so kind. All you are is another child benefiting off the murder of your father. That is who you reall are. And you should face it. And you should fall on your knees and beg repentance, for your evil, cruel, corrupt selfish life. That you’ve lived here on the bones of the North American Indian, on the bones of the slaves, on the bones of the Puerto Ricans, on the bones of the Mexicans, on the bones of all the poor people. That your father murdered so that you could go to college. And so that you could get drunk and high, and have a good time.
Your father had to murder for that privilege. You understand that, don’t you? Your father had to kill. Your grandfather had to steal. So that you could live like Pamela Anderson [background woman crying, ‘you’re horrible’] in America.
Give me Ezekial 45. That is the truth. I’m sorry. I’m showing you love! That’s love. I’m telling you the truth. Ain’t that real love?
[Woman sobbing. Cuts to music video]/end transcript
someone was asking for a transciption again…
Still relevant
note that her reaction to his words is to yell and cry that he is horrible
she’s not crying because he’s talking about the pain of PoC in this country
and the atrocities and lives destroyed and lost
she’s crying for herself
typical
I think she’s also flipped that them white girl tears didn’t get not a blink.
I love this video. He’s preaching but she ain’t getting the word.
Yeah, but he’s not talking for her because he knows his message no matter how he delivers it will never penetrate. He’s talking for the bystanders listening. Most of the time, that’s who you’re really talking for. He’s only talking to her to 1) teach the bystanders if they’re open and 2) to let her know that not all Black folks are swallowing her stale, cliched bullshit and in fact, see right through her ass.
This is so fucking real. Gave me chills.
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so much claptrap festering in my inbox by shit for brains white bio spawn who hand to god claim that having light skin/white privilege is totes comparable to the transracial adoptees experience
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gotta address this and some lethally ableist shit in the international transracial Class Bastard domain being propagated by neurotypical, light-skinned adoptees especially
cutting down my dash to focus on fellow adoptees & foster care survivors to accomplish aforementioned. will refollow later. X
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Um I am confused, I keep seeing people call Tyler Posey a POC and claiming it’s racist to hate him…but um…He’s white
I am not trying to be funny, this isn’t racist…I…just…I just don’t…I..I…I don’t get it. When I see Derek, Scott and Stiles. I see THREE white dudes. I am American, but that’s my nationality, not my race. I am from New York, but I am not a NewYorkan. I am black and if I was born in Greece, Italy, Mexico, etc…etc…I’d still be black. People get their nationality and their races confused. To be a POC you have to have some melanin…and um…Tyler Pose doesn’t have any. How in the world is he a POC? I mean he’s clearly white….
He’s not non-white…um can someone explain?
uh posey is mexican on his mother’s side and he identifies as mexican so yes hes a poc
and as far as scott, thats something you’d have to take up with the writers for not specifying his ethnicity
“To be a POC you have to have some melanin”
Jesus God in heaven why am I still on this stupid site
“To be a POC you have to have some melanin”
This type of thinking is harmful. It alienates for example mixed people of color, it can invalidate what they choose to identify as and even trivialize their struggles.
“Uh,” you can be white AND latin@ at the same time. Mexican heritage does NOT preclude white privilege.
If you can pass for white and are alive today, newsflash: you have white privilege. Which doesn’t necessarily entail being Scandi/Anglo, no shit.
Race=/=ethnicity=/=culture=/=nationality, how many fucking times do POC (you know, those of us who can never ever pass for white) have to spoonfeed it
Also, colorism and shadeism: look em up cos they’re REAL.
#the more you know
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- white person: oh god how do you pronounce this hahaha I know I'm going to fuck this up
- woc: it's Kelly
- white person: hahaha hold on let me try. Killllll - ieeeeeeeee
- woc: ...
- white person: haha you guys have such silly names
- white child celebrity: my name is Dumptruck Aryan Nation Croissant
- white person: wow, I can remember that and pronounce it perfectly, how American and unique of you, how fresh and innovative
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To the white guys on the beach yelling, “China! Filipino! Japanese? Beautiful Asians!” at us from across the street… To all the white girls who tell us, “You’re so lucky! I just want to be dark like you.” To that one white guy who wrote a paper on genocide in our country and told us, “…you probably won’t understand it.”
Fuck you. Fuck your fetishization, white privilege, and racism.
Linda and Lenée. Best friends. Cambodian girls. Forever angry.
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