amibluedotcom:
thegoddamazon:
aijin:
houstonblack:
molliemackattack:
ashlitheginger:
I’m sorry. I do not find this racist AT ALL. It is the truth. I am not racist AT ALL. I was not raised that way. But this is so true. I think all this stuff is just as racist. When Obama was elected the first time, black kids walked around chanting “Black power!” and if that had been me and my friends, we would have been expelled, so why weren’t these kids punished for their equally as racist commments? If you do anything based on RACE alone, or excludes a certain race, it is racism. It doesn’t matter which race, it doesn’t matter what it is. It is racism.
^agreed.
I hate being black sometimes….
Why..?
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White folks never stop and think “Hey, maybe if my people hadn’t oppressed, segregated, and dehumanized POC so much, it wouldn’t have led to them hiding away and creating their own safe spaces to be themselves where my presence wouldn’t stifle them.”
And maybe we create these spaces and communities for ourselves because we’ve never been welcomed in yours.
History. How does it work?
People think that we’re in a post-racial America. Some white people act like this means we should all be still, and think that to notice discrimination amongst minorities and point it out is too draw attention to color. We are not EQUAL by sitting still. We’d have to at some point in time BE equal to REMAIN equal. We’ve never been equal, and reducing black ownership or speciality schools and clubs gives us even less then we already have. Do you have to be a minority to get that??? Pointing out racism is not enforcing racism. Again, pointing out racism is NOT enforcing racism. If you see a crime and speak on it , it is a crime. If you don’t speak on it it is STILL a crime. It’s not less of a crime because no one mentions it. Instead, if you don’t speak on a crime the only reaction is sometimes no consequence. Pointing out racism is not enforcing racism, it’s a call to action, not willful ignorance.
This “if we act like nothing is happening then it means nothing is happening” mentality is ridiculously stupid in a country of intergration and free wifi -_-. Is is that easy to ignore everything? I have NO idea how to ignore everything…