Imaginary Butler

Illustrator, library clerk, recluse.

[imaginarybutler]

[sheishurr]

[thisiswhiteculture]

and if any of you white people respond with “wait but I didn’t do that. that was in the past”

i need you to check your privilege

and then drink bleach if you think your hands aren’t dirty

[abunchofassholes-blog]

They’re not.

Guilt doesn’t transfer from generation to generation. I am not magically accountable for something my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather MIGHT have done. Also;

>social justice blogger >telling people to kill themselves

[leaveamessgeatthebeep-deactivat]

I love that there’s a blog called “this is white culture” that is solely devoted to bad things white people did, not their cultures at all.  So I guess I can make a blog called “this is black culture” and post gang and crime records and that’s 100% okay.  Or “this is Muslim culture” and make it all about terrorism.

But wait, you cry.  Not all black people are criminals and not all Muslims are terrorists.  That’s unfair!  And racist!

WELL GOLLY GEE DO YOU THINK SO?  Because saying that all white people are responsible for the Atlantic slave trade sounds pretty racist to me, given that, you know, that was between the African slaveholders and the British and Americans and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with my ancestors, who were incredibly poor farmers and serfs from Ireland and Lithuania who had to flee to America at around the turn of the century (by which time slavery had already been abolished in the US) because they were being treated like slaves.  Even if they had been living in America at the time when slavery was legal they wouldn’t have been able to afford a slave; in fact they probably would have been working with them in the fields and treated about the same, since the first slaves in America were actually white serfs.  But please, tell me more about how dirty my hands are because of circumstances surrounding my birth that I could not control and continue to treat me differently based on the color of my skin without actually knowing anything about my heritage, I’m sure that isn’t racist at all!

[imaginarybutler]

Bro, maybe start tagging things like this "reblogging because this is bullshit" because I am growing concerned. We are white. Growing up in Detroit, my mom was teased for being Polish and that sucked for her, but in Grand Rapids my ancestry means nothing. My white skin means I can start a fight downtown and be completely in the wrong but the police won't arrest me. They might arrest the man I picked a fight with: maybe his parents are from Angola, no slave ancestry whatsoever, but according to our police department his skin color makes him less trustworthy.

Racism has nothing to do with our individual ancestry. We are still living with the fallout of African slavery in America but only white people have the luxury of pretending we aren't.

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Oh, hey perfect IAMX video. How are you?