Demanding civil rights and just treatment for People of Color has always been about exposing the truth of racial disparities and demanding justice— not about making sure white people’s feelings don’t hurt and white people don’t feel uncomfortable about the reality of racism.
You should feel uncomfortable about the actual racism enough to do something to fix it, not complain about how we tell you about it!
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There should be a White History Month in America. That way we can teach all about the things White Americans have done in history, like:
- Cherokee Trail of Tears
- Japanese American internment
- Philippine-American War
- Jim Crow
- The genocide of Native Americans
- Transatlantic slave trade
- The Middle Passage
- The history of White American racism
- Black Codes
- Slave patrols
- Ku Klux Klan
- The War on Drugs
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- How white racism grew out of slavery and genocide
- How whites still benefit from slavery and genocide
- White anti-racism
- The Southern strategy
- The rape of black slave women
- CORE
- Madison Grant
- The Indian Wars
- Human zoos
- How the Jews became white
- White flight
- Redlining
- Proposition 14
- Homestead Act
- Tulsa Riots
- Rosewood massacre
- Tuskegee Experiment
- Lynching
- Hollywood stereotypes
- Indian Appropriations Acts
- Immigration Act of 1924
- Sundown towns
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Emmett Till
- Vincent Chin
- Islamophobia
- Indian boarding schools
- King Philip’s War
- Bacon’s Rebellion
- American slavery compared to Arab, Roman and Latin American slavery
- History of the gun
- History of the police
- History of prisons
- History of white suburbia
- Lincoln’s racism and anti-racism
- George Wallace
- Fox News
- Cointelpro
- Real estate steering
- School tracking
- Mass incarceration of black men
- Boston school busing riots
And so on. No fear of running out of topics: there is more than one a day! I am sure my commenters can come up with tons more, probably some big ones that are not coming to mind at the moment (I did not list slavery, the abolitionist movement, the civil war, Reconstruction or Lincoln since they are, in fact, covered in history class, however poorly).
So true.
welp
The length of this list is astonishing
Here ya go
Good christ! Sick…
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What in all the fucks?!
Reasons why that pet my hair shit and all that isn’t cute. I didn’t know these places existed until the 50s tho, jeez. Fucking sick. And that baby is just a beautiful child that’s so terrible
This is so fucking horrible! Wonder why this isn’t taught in schools….
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Man With BAC of 0.00 Arrested and Charged With DUI
Jessie Thorton, a 61-year-old retiree, was arrested and charged with DUI in Arizona despite having a blood alcohol level of 0.00. The reason the arresting officer gave to Thorton: “I can tell you’re driving drunk by the look in your eyes.”
The heck is this? Do I detect racism?
one time a boy tried to pull my hijab off
i punched him in the face
closed fist, short swing, right in the jaw
there is a point where you stop trying to educate people and start making the consequences of their racist bullshit real fuckin clear.
This ^
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Well, yeah, except for the part where it’s not. :)
Because the consequences of supposed “racism” against white people is…literally nothing. Hurt feelings. That’s it.
White people INVENTED racism with the intent that THEY would be the beneficiaries; it is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO BE A ONE-WAY STREET.
Racism leads to the extrajudicial murder of people of color, especially Black people.
Actual, real racism leads to school closure in districts that are more than 25% people of color
It leads to financial, educational, and institutional inequality.
NEED SOME HELP UNDERSTANDING? ARE WORDS TO HARD?
HAVE SOME PICTURES!
OH, AND DON’T FORGET THAT NO MATTER WHAT HORRIFIC NEW ATROCITY IS INVENTED OR “WHO” IT AFFECTS, BLACK PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS SUFFER THE MOST:
When feminists decry the horrific new developments in regard to the criminalization of pregnancy, i.e. people with uteri who are prosecuted and/or sent to prison for refusing a c-section, having a miscarriage or stillbirth, having a mental illness, being perceived as “irresponsible”, et cetera.
This is happening to Black and Native American women like Regina McKnight and Martha Greywind:
First, we describe characteristics of the women and the cases, finding that low-income women and women of color, especially African American women, are overrepresented among those who have been arrested or subjected to equivalent deprivations of liberty.
who are poor, and often living in the South, with its rich history of forced sterilizations and eugenics. South Carolina especially showed preference for sterilizing African American women.
HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
SERIOUSLY? WHAT COULD EVER EVEN REMOTELY CHANGE YOUR MIND WHEN YOU’VE ALREADY DECIDED, BEFORE LEARNING OR LOOKING AT ANYTHING, THAT “RACISM IS A TWO-WAY STREET”?
WHERE ARE THE FUCKING CONSEQUENCES FOR WHITE PEOPLE???
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY?
FUCKING SHOW ME, YOU SHITHEAD
I’LL WAIT
White people invented racism? You need to check your history, racism has been around since we first evolved. Want a good example? The African, Homo Sapiens, obliterated the European Homo Neandethalus. Racism is even present in Chickens and other species, no one “invented” it, it is a product of nature, quit with trying to manufacture white guilt, and make your life better instead of complaining about it, no one is stopping you.
CHECK YOUR HISTORY
chickens
White people have reached a new level of stupid in their defense and protection of racism.
They will literally stop at NOTHING to keep the power structure in place. Bringing up Neanderthals and chickens? Really? I’m utterly amazed because I didn’t know it was possible to be this disgusted with y’all.
I kind of feel ashamed to be white right now. Anyone out there who is on board with this “racist chicken” shit needs to stop! Fucking stop it. Reasoning and explaining away racism (or that it’s a “two-way street” bullshit…) is nothing more than BACKLASH… pure and simple (look it up if you don’t now what it is). Check your privilege, acknowledge that you have it, and then shut the fuck up and listen - learn from the people around you and stop making comments that just reinforce your bigotry and egocentric selfishness. FFS!
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