Thursday, September 13, 2012

I am white. And I am racist.

mama-boy:

No I am not sitting around and reading Pork while wearing a shitty fake “native american headdress” with a bindi on my forehead and “wite powr” tattooed across my knuckles.

However, I am white. This means I benefit from whiteness, no matter what I do. This means I contribute to the system of whiteness, no matter what I do. I was born and bred and raised and fed by whiteness. I was taught to love my white skin and white body and all I see when I open a book or magazine or turn on a tv or the computer are white skinned bodies or whitewashed bodies. And I don’t have to be a white suprematist to be racist. All I have to be is white.

I am inherently racist. 

Racism isn’t just waking up one day and saying to yourself “I’m gonna go be a shithead”

(although thats what whiteness/white culture/white media/so on and so forth basically did and does)

because racism is so much more than that. 

I wont ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER experience racism, nor will you, fellow white folks. The closest we’ll get is being disliked. And aren’t we lucky that all we have to do is open a book/magazine, turn on a tv, look at an ad, turn off the computer or walk away, and then life is a-okay again?!

This doesn’t mean we can’t have shitty lives

This does however mean that we are inherently racist.

Fellow white folks.

We wont ever experience racism.

So why the fuck are we sitting around telling PoC what is and isn’t racism?

Or if we are or aren’t racist. 

Or that being a housewife makes us not racist. 

bleh

Posted at 9:13 PM 1,029 notes Reblogged from shakethecobwebs

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  1. theyalwayswantyoutoproveit reblogged this from blackinasia
  2. brontsmoth reblogged this from mercilessshred and added:
    Everyone, black people, asian people, white people, arab people, etc etc, has certain cultural and racial biases, it’s...
  3. mercilessshred reblogged this from ride-the-solar-winds and added:
    “I am inherently racist” Do you guys want to know how hard I smashed my face into the computer screen
  4. ride-the-solar-winds reblogged this from kaosritual and added:
    When America forgets there’s a whole world of people outside America… Cause the Irish, the Polish, the Russians, the...
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  6. kaosritual reblogged this from failedhumanexistence and added:
    Even more sense! If you buy into OP’s point, unfollow me NOW. I have no desire to associate myself with uneducated,...
  7. failedhumanexistence reblogged this from kaosritual and added:
    The bit about how white people will “never ever ever experience racism” is exceptionally retarded. It seems lately that...
  8. thechosennerf reblogged this from metapianycist and added:
    Interesting comments here.
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    BLESS
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  14. harperhug reblogged this from hidden-agender and added:
    What mama-boy is saying is completely true. Racism isn’t just going out and beating someone up because of how s/he...
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    When you bartend, older folks think its okay to be opinionated and judgmental. It’s the culture they grew up in....
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    BE VERY, VERY VERY CAREFUL ABOUT SAYING THIS SORT OF THING. This passage assumes that all white people come from white...