21 year old boricua grrrl looking for the Marceline to my Princess Bubblegum. My name is Melanie.

“When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.”
– bell hooks (via dreamznhallucinations)

(via femmenoire)

#bell hooks  #anti-racism  #white privilege  

Do you know what, fuck everything I said today about “white privelege.”

fromonesurvivortoanother:

cijithegeek:

notesonascandal:

reverseracism:

ricksantorum-2012:

londonbones:

After enough research I’ve reverted to me original conclusion that the term “white privilege” essentially means that racism is all “whitey’s” fault and has nothing to do with evolutionary biology or tribal mentality and the only way to solve it is for “whitey” to feel shamed for his own race. And I think I now know how so many people got brainwashed into it. It’s from these ultra PC insane social justice slacktivist who will either bully and shame people into submission or trick people with deceptive and convoluted languages or other things. Do you know what? I get it, whites do get a lot of perks in western society but it’s not my fucking fault. My race is not something I can control and I can try to fight for the rights of others but you can’t expect me to go around feeling sorry for privilege that I never asked for and I can’t control. Let me ask you something, do you think that Muslim men are somehow culpable for all the oppression that Islamic extremists have done? Because that’s essentially the same thing you are suggesting, that I’m somehow culpable for the genocide of Native American’s and the enslavement of Africans just because I happen to be born white. Do you know what? You may have brainwashed everyone else but you with your bullshit but you will never brainwash me!

This!!!!! We refuse to apologize. We will NOT bow down like slaves because of what our ancestors did!! White people are being targeted everywhere and frankly we’re sick of it. You will not brainwash us into thinking we’re evil when we represent all that is good and holy in this world. Evolutionary biology puts some people ahead of others….. so what?? We should celebrate this instead of trying to repress it! 

White people = good

PoC = bad

Most likely ricksantorum-2012 has argued that there’s good and bad in every race and that no one should be generalized.

“We represent all that is good and holy in this world” will turn into “DON’T GENERALIZE ALL WHITE PEOPLE! I’M NOT LIKE THAT!!” in about 45 seconds. 

i dont understand

i can’t tell if this is poe’s law or some sort of super-evolved version of it.

#LOL  #too much  #privilege  #white privilege  #racism  

[general tw: discussion on cissexism and racism] I would really fucking love it if we stopped idolizing cis-feminists who think being trans-inclusive is bad for cis women.

fromonesurvivortoanother:

youarenotyou:

inflateablefilth:

I really fucking would. The latest in this line of cis-feminists I’ve noticed is Raven, aka unknowable woman. By asking for trans-inclusive language we’re being mean to women.

This is her response to people being upset with a poster that had a uterus on it and a slogan about women:

God fucking forbid women have one thing of their own in this world. We can’t write about ourselves, we can’t speak about ourselves, we can’t advocate for ourselves even within our own so-called “social justice” spheres without someone telling us to shut up about our own experiences.

That’s right folks, us mean ol’ trans folk are silencing women. How bout that! Even though trans folks like me are active and vocal in the pro-choice movement, which benefits cis women, we really should just shut up.

But, no, we have to love her because she got into a battle on twitter with Ryking. And I mentioned this to someone once, that I distrust cis-women in social justice, feminist, and pro-choice environments more than cis-men sometimes, because when cis women pull the ‘we’re being marginalized by you!’ card a lot more people listen. And I got called a misogynist. Which, incidentally, is apparently what we automatically are because we don’t want people telling us that a uterus makes you a woman.

This stuff, this is why Die Cis Scum is a phrase that exists. Because if we dare to talk, we’re silencing women. And when they say ‘women’, you bet your ass they only mean cis women.

Fuck cis people man, I am fucking done with your shit.

I love (and by love, I mean hate) how these cis feminists are always implying that anyone who isn’t a woman is oppressing them, because non-woman always equals male, apparently. 

And the justification of this cissexist erasing shit is that cis-woman-specific language is “needed” to point out that these anti-choicers are motivated by their hatred of cis women. Or in other words, “They aren’t thinking about anyone else, so why should we?” Like because cis women are the targets, we shouldn’t acknowledge who else is affected. Their needs are more important.

The funny thing is, the vast majority of anti choice legislation is actually specifically targeting and affecting women of color. But these white cis feminists completely ignore that fact. The face of the pro choice movement is white, white, white. So their whole “it’s about hating and killing WOMEN, not just PEOPLE” logic falls fucking flat. They cling to that language not because it most accurately describes the target demographic, but because it makes the debate all about them and their white cis needs. 

(And it really sickens me that people finally did something about Ryking when he went after a really well known white cis feminist blogger, despite all of his past harassment of women, especially women of color. But they deny, deny, deny this cuz whiteness has nothing to do with it, oh no.)

like i said yesterday, there’s a reason why “feminists” these days know Jessica Valenti more than Audre Lorde. it’s shit like this that caters to middle class white women. Andrea Smith calls this out in Conquest (which seriously has like, a laser eye on so many feminist issues). WoC didn’t get abortion rights after Roe v Wade, they were still too poor to afford it; the medicalization of abortion only exacerbated that problem. WoC care about contraception, being not-poor enough to feed their kids, and basic health care that is affordable. White woman feminism is about a capitalistic career track, not having to have kids, and getting into the white man’s world. Meanwhile, Women of Color are just trying to survive.

(via fivelettered)

#cis people  #die cis scum  #anti choice  #abortion  #feminism  #why i'm not a feminist  #white feminists  #unknowablewoman  #transphobia  #cissexism  #race  #racism  #white privilege  #2nd wave bullshit  

“When a college friend told me that I was “cute for a black girl,” her statement had weight. It was spoken to a black woman on a campus with a 2 percent black population, in a state where black people were equally scarce, in a country where race bias is still pervasive. She was speaking in a culture where her own white features were prized and considered beautiful and mine were not. She was speaking to a black woman on a campus where black women often went dateless, because the majority white male population was indifferent to us and the small “of color” male population often was, too. She was speaking to me–a woman who had come of age in the 70s and 80s rarely seeing people who look like me in magazines, on television and film, etc. She was speaking at a time when dark skin and big lips and broad noses and nappy hair were regularly mentioned as insults in school yard fights. She was speaking in a town where there was not one salon that did African American hair and no drug store that carried beauty products geared toward black women. Had I offered that she was “cute for a white girl,” it would have been plenty offensive, but would have different context and far less weight. She had racial privilege; I did not. The fact is that black people face microaggressions regularly. (And not just in tiny backwaters and Southern towns.) To ask that we not speak about them, or that we focus on “something more important,” is to erase our lived experiences and to ignore the ways the accumulation of little things can add to the weight of racism.”
–

Not Everyone’s Laughing At “Shit White Girls Say To Black Girls (via thetart)

“To ask that we not speak about them, or that we focus on “something more important,” is to erase our lived experiences and to ignore the ways the accumulation of little things can add to the weight of racism.”

Can I just highlight that one section for a bit? I cannot tell you how many times a day I see this argument from white liberals. Whenever I mention something like the usage of racial slurs in urls, white people using racial slurs, or white people dressing up in blackface for Halloween this argument inevitably comes up. “Little things” like that are just as racist as someone being bullied for being black or being denied a job for being black. We cannot ignore those small racist statements and actions an expect anything to get better.

White liberals, every time you say something to that effect, you’re showing your privilege. You’re also showing your unwillingness to check your privilege. If you want to know why POC stay away from you and events, rallies, or protests you organize? There is your answer. Take the time to listen and maybe, just maybe, you’ll learn something.

(via ladyatheist)

(via youarenotyou-deactivated2012022)

#racism  #white privilege  

→ Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men - Media - GOOD

youarenotyou:

youarenotyou:

After watching this happen again and again, something occurred to me: Why don’t the white men who are asked to engage in this nonsense simply stop doing it? The boycott is a protest with a long history of success. If white, male elites started saying, “I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white men,” chances are these panels and articles would quickly dry up—or become more diverse.

“I think it’s ridiculous that this kind of thing goes on in 2011,” says Wired magazine’s Spencer Ackerman, a white guy who’s often written about and asked to be on panels thanks to his vaunted national security reporting. “It’s especially bad when it happens in progressive media, which makes an effort—or at least pays lip service—to promote the idea that media diversity isn’t just an optional thing but a necessity.”

Asked what he thinks about a white-dude panel boycott, Ackerman said it makes sense. “It’s within our power and it’s up to us to say, ‘Why don’t you include my colleague who works on something similar, who has possibly more to say because they’re not listened to as frequently,’” he says. “And if we don’t do it, there’s no incentive for people organizing these things to think more critically about why it is they’re not including these diverse voices.”

Omg, the comments O_O

why tim wise sucks

(Source: creatrixtiara, via youarenotyou-deactivated2012022)

#quote  #race  #racism  #white privilege  #male privilege  

“We need to acknowledge that we cannot know what it’s like to be an oppressed racial minority. Cannot. The end. Period. We don’t know because we’re queer, because we’re disabled, because we’re Jewish, because we were the nerdy kid in school. These things may have hurt us severely, but we need to stop playing Oppression Olympics and acknowledge that when we’re talking about race we Do. Not. Know. No more metaphors.

We need to accept that when a person of color tells us we’ve fucked up, the answer is not to get defensive. When we get that instinct to say “geez, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it that way at all,” it’s time to stop right now. It doesn’t matter how you meant it. It really doesn’t. Someone doesn’t have to have racism in their heart to do something racist. And doing something racist doesn’t make you an evil person who can never do good again, should never be an activist, should run off and hide in a hole somewhere. It means you did something hurtful, you made a big mistake, and you need to own that mistake. You need to say “I’m sorry.” Full stop. I’m sorry. And if the person who called you out is generous enough to take time to explain what you did wrong, you need to have a seat and listen.”
– White Feminists: It’s Time to Put Up or Shut Up on Race (via fromonesurvivortoanother)

#race  #racism  #white privilege  #feminism  #feminist  #privilege  #intersectionality  #resources  

→ Mx. Hipworth: i understand ppl are going to be mad with me.

soydulcedeleche:

karnythia:

peecharrific:

and i understand ppl are going to think, “is peech ever going to be happy? or is everything slutwalk does going to be wrong?”

i’m just here to say: slutwalk can do whatever they want. but there’s nothing they’re going to say or do that’s…

#slutwalk  #swnyc  #racism  #fuck sisterhood  #white privilege  

fearandwar: “Saying we should all be color-blind…”

stfuracists:

fearandwar:

Saying we should all be color-blind is an argument only a white idiot could make.

But I’m color-blind, I don’t see his race, I only see a HUMAN idiot.

(wah-wah…)

#racism  #white privilege  #race  #Color-Blindness  

#white privilege  #kids  #simplicity  #mlk  #i have a dream  

“Afro-Brazilian scholar João Costa Vargas, in an unpopular (yet no less eloquent) speech he delivered this spring at the Critical Ethnic Studies conference at UC Riverside noted “Why doesn’t Black suffering and death appeal and effectively mobilize beyond the seemingly unique catastrophic moments? Why is it that, when Black suffering and death are expressed, they are almost always forced into a conversation that focuses on the experiences of non-Blacks?”
–

Kenyon Farrow, “Remarks at Troy Davis Funeral in NYC” (via so-treu)

RELEVANT!

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preach

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(via fivelettered)

#racism  #white privilege  

→ Academic tourists sight-seeing the Arab Spring

charquaouia:

darling80m:

via The arabist, an interesting peice by AUC sociology professor Mona Abaza about the inequalities between local and foreign academics who study the Middle East — especially now, as the Arab Spring has made the region the object of increased scholarly interest: :

 Without sounding xenophobic, which is a growing concern that personally worries me more than ever, there is much to say about the ongoing international academic division of labour whereby the divide between the so called “theoreticians” of the North and the “informants” who are also “objects of study” in the South continues to grow.

I am indeed speaking of frustrations because “we” as “locals” have been experiencing a situation, time and again, of being reduced to becoming at best “service providers” for visiting scholars, a term I borrowed from my colleague, political scientist Emad Shahin, at worst like the French would put it, as the “indigène de service”, for ironically the right cause of the revolution. To rather cater for the service of our Western expert colleagues who typically make out of no more than a week’s stay in Cairo, a few shots and a tour around Tahrir, the ticket to tag themselves with the legitimacy and expertise of first hand knowledge.

Like when Thomas Friedman wrote that SHITTY ASS piece for the NY Times in March of this year, where he somehow attributed Obama’s 2009 speech, Google Earth, and the Beijing Olympics as forces that drove the uprisings in the region? 

It’s just laughable:

THE BEIJING OLYMPICS China and Egypt were both great civilizations subjected to imperialism and were both dirt poor back in the 1950s, with China even poorer than Egypt, Edward Goldberg, who teaches business strategy, wrote in The Globalist. But, today, China has built the world’s second-largest economy, and Egypt is still living on foreign aid. What do you think young Egyptians thought when they watched the dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics? China’s Olympics were another wake-up call — “in a way that America or the West could never be” — telling young Egyptians that something was very wrong with their country.

I’d say go read it, but leave your absorbing brain cells out before you click.

(via haralambros)

#Egypt  #academia  #mona Abaza  #revolution  #white privilege  #arab  #middle east  

“

As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white students who failed to meet their university’s minimum standards for admission, according to Peter Schmidt, deputy editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education. These kids are “people with a long-standing relationship with the university,” or in other words, the children of faculty, wealthy alumni and politicians.

According to Schmidt, these unqualified but privileged kids are nearly twice as common on top campuses as Black and Latino students who had benefited from affirmative action.

”
– Ten myths about affirmative action (via linzyxxxxx)

(Source: sociolab, via catbountry)

#racism  #affirmative action  #education  #white privilege  

“

Here’s what you need to realise about anti-racism: It’s not about you. It’s not about your feelings as a white person. What you just said is that you’ll entertain the idea of listening to POC talk about ways they’ve been fucked over by whiteness, white privilege, and white people as long as they don’t hurt your feelings.

To put it another way: you’re saying that not having your feelings hurt is more important to you than actually trying to understand PoC’s experiences of enduring racism—which is, itself, perpetuating racism. No, maybe you didn’t partake in whatever act of racism we’re talking about in this very moment, but if you’re white, then you are benefiting from the systemic racism that allowed it to happen, whether you like it or not.

Yes, listening to the ways that your privilege fucks over other people is uncomfortable. Yes, it can be embarrassing & lead to feelings of guilt, but it is not up to People of Color to censor ourselves to spare your delicate fee-fees. If you truly want to be considered anti-racist, you need to deal with those feelings with other white people & not add to the burden of PoC’s experiences of racism by saying that you won’t take us seriously unless we’re ‘nice’ about the emotional & psychological violence that we endure simply by being PoC in a racist society.

So literally, all I want you to do is understand that being anti-oppression (of any kind) is about understanding how the oppressed group is affected & then countering those systems, activities, mindsets, etc. It’s not about you being comfortable, because if you’re doing it right, it’s not going to be comfortable.

”
– VELOCICRAFTOR (via sapphrikah)

(via cherryvision-deactivated2012011)

#racism  #white people and their feefees  #white privilege  #whiteness  

→ REVOLUTION: FEMINIST STYLE!: fromonesurvivortoanother: thetart: White kids? I need y’all to...

fromonesurvivortoanother:

thetart:

White kids? I need y’all to listen.

We are not all Troy Davis.

This would not happen to us.

No, cork it and let that settle in for a second. This would not happen to us in this country and in this “justice” system and in this white supremacist…

(via cuntygrrl-deactivated20111201-d)

#whiteness  #White privilege  #racism  

“Individual black people/people of color often describe moments where they challenge racist speech at meetings or in other formal settings only to witness a majority of folks rush to comfort the racist individual they have challenged, as though that person is the victim and the person who raised questions a persecutor. No wonder then that while discussions of white supremacy and racism have become rather commonplace in individual scholarly writing and journalistic work, most people are wary, if not downright fearful, of discussing these issues in group settings, especially when among strangers. People often tell me that they do not share openly and candidly their thoughts about white-supremacist thought and racism for fear that they will say the wrong thing. And yet when this reason is interrogated it usually is shown to cover up the fear of conflict, the belief that saying the wrong thing will generate conflict, bad feeling or lead to counterattack. Groups where white folks are in the majority often insist that race and racism does not really have much meaning in today’s world because we are all so beyond caring about it. I ask them why they then have so much fear about speaking their minds. Their fear, their censoring silence, is indicative of the loaded meaning race and racism have in our society.”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)

(via blck-grrl)

#bell hooks  #race  #racis  #truth  #white privilege  #white supremacy  #WOC  #women of color