#racial stuff

[warriorpax]

RANT ALERT! Put under a read-more, for those that don’t wanna scroll through it.

I honestly think that this “black lives matter” thing is kinda racist. Why not “All lives matter?” Whether you’re black, white, native, Asian, Russian, Japanese, etc., your life matters to me. It’s just people who start these, quote, “peaceful protests” with arson frankly deserve a foot up their ass. ESPECIALLY if you’re burning an American flag. In which case, GO TO HELL. You disrespect the flag, you disrespect everyone that fought and DIED for this country, INCLUDING minority groups such as blacks and Asians. Think about THAT the next time you go out to one of these “protests,” which are just glorified arson, robbery, and obstruction of property or destruction of property or whatever the fuck proper term is used for it, and who knows how many other crimes committed.

Peacefully protesting with just signs is just FINE. It’s the violence that pisses me off. Frankly speaking, I agree with those who say the police “is a killer” or a murderer or whatever. That DOESN’T mean I agree with the riots that have been going on from LA all the way to fucking DOWNTOWN LANSING.

Another thing, before I end this post: I’m terribly sorry to any minority-group folks reading this, whether you’re with or against the people protesting. I just had to get this off my chest before it drove me absolutely insane. Thank you for you’re understanding (assuming you understand, of course).

Stay safe, stay home, and as always, WEAR A FUCKING MASK WHEN YOU GO OUT, folks. It’s only common sense.

[i-dvnt-share]

Is it racist

if a character (who is 100% white French) describes his friend's eyes (his friend is half Russian half Japanese) as having cat eyes?

Within context, he's admiring him and how he looks, and he thinks he's beautiful. But can he say cat eyes or should it be something else?

[portraitoftheoddity]

Still thinking about all that bullshit with monuments in the south, and it got me thinking ---

I’m actually really proud of the city I live in right now, because it’s a super old little colonial city founded in the fucking 1600s with a lot of history and preserved historic buildings -- and they’ve got over 24 bronze plaques throughout downtown detailing Black Heritage sites and acknowledging the city’s shitty racist history with the Triangle Trade as well as which Revolutionary War heroes owned human beings instead of pretending none of that shit happened just because we wound up a northern free state. All the famous rich colonial white people’s preserved houses are still there; the history is all there. But it’s contextualized instead of bowdlerized, with walking tours of the city’s black history and memorials to the unknown slaves who died as well as memorials of early colonial figures. It’s an honest view of history that doesn’t totally gloss over the truth just because it’s uncomfortable, and I really admire our local historic society for it. 

[wizardmilfs]

vent

being biracial in my case means watching your abusive dad fall into and enforce negative black stereotypes & having your mom get pissy with you cause you connect with the side you happen to look more like like first off i don't know shit about hatian culture, i was never surrounded by people from any of my cultures, i feel too black to be safe around white people and too white to be accepted by black people, i never learned how to dance like anything other than a white person so i hate going out in public because i love to dance but it's always the white dad bop™ or a lot of shitty hip swivelling that make me look like a wannabe shakira, makeup doesn't look good on me, my own hair doesn't look good on me, no one knows how to cut my hair, i don't know what i can and can't say because i'm only half black, and i don't know how much the white half cuts me out of the community, my friends think i complain too much because they don't complain, and my first time finding black people i'm not related to that made me feel loved & at home was when i ended up befriending the sweetest 2 other black girls in my french class who have shown me nothing but kindness since i met them

[thedailymonty-blog]

Re: The Anatomy of Populist Economics by Brigitte Granville

Italicized paragraphs from this article: https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/the-anatomy-of-populist-economics-by-brigitte-granville-2017-02 But, despite populism’s seeming ubiquity, it is a hard concept to pin down. Populists are often intolerant of outsiders and those who are different; and yet Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch populist leader, is a firm believer in gay rights. In the US, Trump’s presidential campaign was described as an anti-elite movement; and yet his administration is already practically a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. Yep, the early days of the Trump administration are really looking like the early days of the Harding administration, aren’t they? That probably deserves a whole post of its own. Anyway: this happened because populism is a tactic, not a political position. The idea is that free republics are a series of agreements and social mores about how to resolve issues, and populism convinces the people to buck social mores that involve staying quiet and listening to expert opinion. That leads to complaints about anti-intellectualism, but our system only works if everyone has an advocate, and the intellectuals aren’t even trying. No, worse... They’re trying to SUPPRESS advocacy for whites. Somehow, we’ve ended up with a situation where we’re NEVER EVER supposed to discuss whites as a group with a collective interest unless it’s to offer rebuttal to why those interests are bad for the world as a whole and frankly evil. Or at least make fun of them! And that’s awful, because look: not everybody knows how to sum up what they’re angry about and why, but they do know how to be angry. And when the only real response to poor whites is, “THEY VOTE AGAINST THEIR INTERESTS!” followed by speculation about how this is caused by racism, then of course they’re going to vote to buck you. We made the universities so we’d have some fuckers around who could figure out what everyone’s concerns are and say what those people aren’t educated to say themselves. That’s how we could be doing cultural studies, not the current liberal-academic project of somehow turning straight white men into the villains of a story about how no one dies of polio anymore and by the way, we have these things called “human rights” now but mostly in white countries, SOMEONE SHOULD LOOK INTO THE REASONS FOR THAT, STRAIGHT WHITE MEN WERE INVOLVED.

A real study of culture would make books like Norah Vincent’s Self-Made Man and Kathryn Edin’s Doing the Best I Can more common than this "cultural theory” crap that always comes down to “Marxism, but this time it’s about women/blacks instead of class.” So, yes, the West is experiencing a “populist movement” of people who feel ignored, BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN! And, yes, they blame other races, BECAUSE WHY WOULDN’T THEY?! The political conversation since the ‘70s has centered around what might fix the black community when the blacks themselves don’t even seem to want to be fixed as badly as they want revenge, sorry, poorly-defined reparation that always kinda sound like they’re coming from a place of vengeance and not an honest exploration of what might help. Seriously: we’ve tried everything. At this point the black community must have problems that can’t be solved from the outside by whitey’s money. Meanwhile, Joe Six-Pack gets what? A Republican Party that doesn’t even really help him, but fuck, at least it pisses you guys off when he votes for them! That’s all he has left! So: no, you don’t have to put your own interests aside to figure out what the white trash wants. No one ever has to do that for anyone else in my book. But don’t act like this is about making things better for everybody if you won’t, and don’t act surprised when they win one and make you face the fact that they fucking hate you.

[pabloplecosto]

I want to make it incredibly clear that if you are Asian American you need to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

I talked about this with my mom this morning and you remember when a couple months ago a Chinese American cop killed an unarmed black man?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/nyregion/in-new-york-indictment-of-officer-peter-liang-divides-chinese-americans.html?_r=0

This is specifically talking about Chinese Americans but Asian Americans aren’t very politically active as a whole. However when this happened? There were petitions, organizations contacting lawyer, and protests all over the US. The main argument that I heard from the Asian American community? They said that it was because of racism that Peter Liang was convicted of manslaughter while white cops walked away with no prison time, with their jobs and lives intact after killing innocent black people.  They said that if the system will convict Asian Americans when they didn’t try to kill anyone on purpose, the system should hold white people accountable too.

I don’t have evidence for this but my mom said that during this they were consider using the All Lives Matter hashtag to say that black people weren’t the only people being discriminated against. They only put down the idea down when someone pointed out it was a tag that white people used to be racist.

That’s disgusting. We should not be taking in these horrific acts of violence and then using them to turn around and say that hey we’re victims of racism too. Anti-black racism is what this country was founded on. It has been here since the beginning and is built into the system. Yes we face racism but anti-black racism needs to be addressed NOW.

Here’s a good article on Peter Liang’s case http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-tan/peter-liang-was-justly-convicted_b_9299860.html

Peter Liang was rightfully convicted and yes white cops that kill innocent black men should be held accountable but we need to think about how disgusting it is that it was only then that we started talking. Majority of us stayed silent as black people died. Most of us are still silent. We only spoke up when we thought we were victims. That’s not ok.

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented” – Elie Wiesel

This is a good article on why taking a neutral stance supports the oppressor. http://organizingchange.org/here-is-how-moral-leaders-approach-neutrality/

I’m sure you’ve all heard this before as a kid. If you see someone bullying someone, tell an adult. Being a bystander means you are just as much at fault as the bully is. This is the same, just on a larger scale.

Here are a couple posts with more about Asian Americans in relation to the anti-black racism and the Black Lives Matter movement. http://officialenjolras.tumblr.com/post/147148478634/riceblush-saying-that-asian-american http://nitevale.tumblr.com/post/147314697985/mehreenkasana-for-fellow-asian-americans-why http://irishspy.tumblr.com/post/147095910677/every-single-asian-person-needs-to-unlearn-their http://rileyredgate.com/post/147111393217/those-of-us-outside-the-black-community-lets not specific to Asian Americans but it’s a good post

We need to support the Black Lives Matter movement and call out racism in our own communities. Silence isn’t acceptable. It never should be.

[pabloplecosto]

Honestly all the posts about what white people can do to support the black lives matter movement shouldn’t be called for white people. It should be for non-black people. I need to educate myself and try to make a difference as a Chinese American just as much as a white person needs to. With the language we use right now I feel like some non-black people of color will be dismissive and that’s not what we need.

[muse-whimsy]

tbh i dont feel like i am “black enough”? like i feel like i’m in a way, a disgrace to my heritage?

i don’t speak AAVE. when i try to, it feels forced and sounds weird coming from me, as if i’m a white girl trying to do the same.

i don’t know what to do. whenever i try to be more akin to my heritage it feels forced.

and yes i AM black in case you’re wondering. 

in a way i feel like this is society’s fault. my family (my dad’s side) probably had to convert to speaking “white english” because society didn’t like the way AAVE sounded. society probably forced my dad’s side of the family to throw away their heritage to fit in with the white society as well. it’s a shame.