May 26, 2011
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[description; two circles. one blue circle with ‘what racism means’ on the inside and one that is red with ‘what most people think it means.’ under the blue circle it reads, ‘the structural oppression of non-whites through government legislature, culture ‘norms,’ representation in media, etc.’ under the red circle it says ‘a black girl made fun of me in middle school.’]
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To be honest, I dislike how often discussions of racism get derailed to explain to people that the dictionary definition is out-of-date and inadequate but I feel it is a conversation we need to have. Racism will always be more complex than a “hatred or intolerance of another race or other races”. It is a set of practices and subconscious behaviors that continuously teaches us to default to white, where “nude” is considered to be beige, and black folks and Hispanics have higher incarceration rates than whites for the similar crimes. By saying this I am not undermining bullying you may have received in grade, middle or high school and I am also not saying people of color cannot be prejudiced against other races themselves. All I am saying is we, as people of color, cannot be racist since we lack the power to full on oppress you. It is truly that simple to grasp.
I am also not saying people of color cannot be prejudiced against other races themselves. All I am saying is we, as people of color, cannot be racist since we lack the power to full on oppress you.
the fact that people REFUSE to believe this is so frustrating to me. It’s so fucking simple.
my god this is so neatly represented.
YES YES YES YES YEYS YS
OMG I CAN’T EVEN TYPE YES.
This is the bullshit that infuriates me! You how many times I’ve had to baby people because of this? “I was the only white person on the train, I know what racism feels like. WHAAAAA” THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE RACISM](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llq3gdnQNV1qzrayvo1_r1_500.png)
[description; two circles. one blue circle with ‘what racism means’ on the inside and one that is red with ‘what most people think it means.’ under the blue circle it reads, ‘the structural oppression of non-whites through government legislature, culture ‘norms,’ representation in media, etc.’ under the red circle it says ‘a black girl made fun of me in middle school.’]
To be honest, I dislike how often discussions of racism get derailed to explain to people that the dictionary definition is out-of-date and inadequate but I feel it is a conversation we need to have. Racism will always be more complex than a “hatred or intolerance of another race or other races”. It is a set of practices and subconscious behaviors that continuously teaches us to default to white, where “nude” is considered to be beige, and black folks and Hispanics have higher incarceration rates than whites for the similar crimes. By saying this I am not undermining bullying you may have received in grade, middle or high school and I am also not saying people of color cannot be prejudiced against other races themselves. All I am saying is we, as people of color, cannot be racist since we lack the power to full on oppress you. It is truly that simple to grasp.
I am also not saying people of color cannot be prejudiced against other races themselves. All I am saying is we, as people of color, cannot be racist since we lack the power to full on oppress you.
the fact that people REFUSE to believe this is so frustrating to me. It’s so fucking simple.
my god this is so neatly represented.
YES YES YES YES YEYS YS
OMG I CAN’T EVEN TYPE YES.
This is the bullshit that infuriates me! You how many times I’ve had to baby people because of this? “I was the only white person on the train, I know what racism feels like. WHAAAAA” THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE RACISM
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August 20, 2011
Essentially, all of the economic gains made by people of color since the Civil Rights Movement have been erased in a few years by the Long Recession. Whites experienced a net wealth loss of 16 percent from 2005 to 2009, while blacks lost about half of their wealth (53 percent) and Latinos lost two-thirds of their wealth.
Media outlets reporting on the Pew study point to housing loss as the primary culprit, since the net worth of blacks and Latinos is heavily reliant on home ownership, while whites are more likely to have retirement accounts and stock.
Rampant–and racist–fraud in the home loan industry was a primary contributor to the collapse, with 61 percent of sub-prime loan holders actually qualifying for prime loans that would have been easier to maintain. Blacks and Latinos were especially targeted for sub-prime loans, a practice called “reverse redlining.” Wells Fargo loan officer-turned-whistle blower Elizabeth Jacobson admitted that her company specifically went after African Americans for sub-prime loans through “wealth building” conferences hosted in black churches.
The employment gap between whites and blacks is also a contributor to the wealth gap. While white American are suffering through the Long Recession with 7.9 percent unemployment, blacks are experiencing Great Depression-like figures of 16.1 percent unemployment. This figure jumps to 31.4 percent for blacks ages 16 to 24, and black Americans have consistently had the higher rate of unemployment compared to white Americans since 2007.
Not surprisingly, the employment gap, too, has racist origins. The Center for American Progress analyzed unemployment data from the last three recessions and found that black unemployment starts earlier, rises faster and lingers longer. Explanations include the concentration of black workers in the stumbling manufacturing sector, the cutting of public sector jobs–and racial discrimination. This last finding is no shock given that employers are more likely to call back a white job applicant with a criminal record than a similarly qualified black man without a record.
The role of racism in poverty is important to keep in mind at a time Washington politicians are manufacturing crises that will slash the entitlement programs that 1 in 6 Americans rely on. It’s ironic that we’re cutting safety nets for the poor just as we’re experiencing the highest poverty rate since 1960, with blacks and Latinos three times as likely to live in poverty. Public policy is supposed to knock down racial and other non-meritorious barriers to pursuing life, liberty, and happiness, not jack them higher.
But white privilege doesn’t exist and racism is long gone, right post-racial America?
yes. reblogging for obvious lack of white privilege.
I imagine something similar is going on in NZ.
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August 30, 2011
There’s a problem, though, with that message. To suggest that bad people were racist implies that good people were not. Jim Crow segregation survived long into the 20th century because it was kept alive by white Southerners with value systems and personalities we would applaud. It’s the fallacy of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a movie that never fails to move me but that advances a troubling falsehood: the notion that well-educated Christian whites were somehow victimized by white trash and forced to live within a social system that exploited and denigrated its black citizens, and that the privileged white upper class was somehow held hostage to these struggling individuals. But that wasn’t the case. The White Citizens Councils, the thinking man’s Ku Klux Klan, were made up of white middle-class people, people whose company you would enjoy. An analogue can be seen in the way popular culture treats Germans up to and during World War II. Good people were never anti-Semites; only detestable people participated in Hitler’s cause. Cultures function and persist by consensus.
Dangerous White Stereotypes (via azspot)September 14, 2011
What the everloving fuck.
no commentary necessary
I believe this is a necessary follow up to the quote I JUST posted about racism, gender, sports and how black people are portrayed and talked about…
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September 22, 2011
I don’t think white people, generally, understand the full meaning of racist discriminatory behaviors directed toward Americans of African descent. They seem to see each act of discrimination or any act of violence as an “isolated” event. As a result, most white Americans cannot understand the strong reaction manifested by blacks when such events occur. They feel that blacks tend to “over-react.” They forget that in most cases, we live lives of quiet desperation generated by a litany of daily large and small events that whether or not by design, remind us of our “place” in American society.
The Continuing Significance of Race by Joe R. Feagin (via newwavefeminism)
yess… the old chippin away at the block… small injustices add up, my friends.
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Courts in GA sought the death penalty for 70% of black defendants with white victims but for only 15% of white defendants with black victim.
http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment/race-and-death-penalty (via black-culture)
no surprises HERE
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October 2, 2011
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)
well well well look at that.
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OH HEY
OH HEY COLLEGE REPUBLICANS/YAF
OH HEY WOULD YA LOOK AT THIS
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George W. Bush was the poster child for this.
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Well OBVIOUSLY, there are some colored folks comin into top colleges, y’all. Negroez comin in yo colleges, snatchin up yo admission spots, so hide ya ACT scores, hide ya GPA, cuz affirmative action is takin away from the white folks….
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December 13, 2011
I also like where he says “if there is such a thing as complimentary racism, you’ve perfected it”.
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January 19, 2012
A White Savior Film (WSF) is a movie that features a white person coming into the lives of a person or people of color (POCs) who are often low-income, troubled, and/or severely oppressed. The troubled times that the people of color are in can be a product of oppression from…
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January 28, 2012
”Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens.”
“And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller, writer, musician, filmmaker. Being black is like serving as Hoke, the driver in ‘Driving Miss Daisy,’ except it’s a kind of TV series lasts the rest…
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