#racial things

[astroyeahhh]

How do you teach your white coworkers (who are also male and millennials) that there is no such thing as reverse racism??? Like when they get visibily irate but you’re the only black person in the whole department so you don’t have anyone to back you up on this topic??? (Yet they call themselves feminists.... I’m so confused???)

But like I hang out with them outside of work. Do I stop hanging out with them? Do I remain civil? Do I find a new job? Flee the country? Bury myself at the bottom of Lake Erie?

The cultural barrier in the engineering field is #RealAsFuck

[everything-but-my-bones]

Does it make any other Black folx uncomfortable when white ppl and non-Black POC share posts containing the N-word?

Or is that just me? If you can't say it I feel like you shouldn't even reblog cause then I feel like you are tempted to say that shit. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but yeah that shit irks me.

[democraticsenator]

In other news, I love black people. And not in that “Omg Lupita Nyong'o!! Beyonce, Rihanna, and Nicki #theholytrinity” way. That’s the fake “let me hop aboard this black representation love train on tumblr I reblogged one black girl on blackout” kind of way. Whenever a new music video gets released by one of them, they get mad love. When lupita stunts at an award shows, everyone reblog her pictures for half an hour and you never hear of her again. I mean I love black people in a “I love these people. I support these people. I stand by these people. I defend my people” kind of way. And that goes both ways; I uplift both light skin and darker skinner people, and not the “aesthetically pleasing” people this website likes to portray when necessary.

[democraticsenator]

I remember I had a blog called -geni3 back in 2011 (lame, ik). I was a semi-relevant photo blog with 4,000 followers in those days. Back then, you didn't have young, 12 and13 year old BLACK GIRLS on the website. I was surrounded by 16 and 17 year olds on this website, and somehow it was peaceful. And then I posted a selfie of myself. And I remember I got called the n-word and other racial slurs for the whole night. It was so awful. I remember crying so hard that night, that i didn't wake up until 5pm the next night because I was so emotionally exhausted. And you know what the worst part was? No one did anything. Absolutely nothing. I would get messages like ":(" and "these people are mean lol", but nothing truly sorrowful or any words of advice. Imagine being a 13 year old on a website and feeling so ALONE because of your skin color. Back in those days, no one was "woke". It was almost tolerated to call people the n-word back then. Calling me whatever racial slur was funny, and saying I ate KFC was HILARIOUS. Whether it was with a 'ga' or a 'ger' at the end, I dont care. It could have been abcd at the end for all I care, the words still hurt. After that day, I was so numb to everything on this site. So numb. No one was here for me, so I was here for myself. I'm glad I follow more black people, because then I felt so alone. But after that day, I swore to myself to never let anon hate faze me like it did that day. Never again.

[democraticsenator]

I am so pro-black, but its very hard for me to fit into a black group of people at school. Believe me, I've TRIED. All the schools I've been to have been majority white, so naturally I've been around whites more often. During middle school, my school was a bit more mixed, but I was immediately outcasted by the black people at school because I was "too white" and hung around "too many white kids". So in middle school, I had basically one friend. Even when I switched to an all-black catholic school for half of my 7th grade year, I was still given dirty looks by all the other students and I was alone there, too. Now that I'm in high school and my school is majority black, you would think that were be more opportunity for me to integrate. 9th grade, I had very few friends and just hung out with my best friend (who was white) the whole year. 10th grade I had a group of white friends that I still associate with until now. But that whole year I would be given dirty looks every time by my brother and sisters whenever I came too close. After I got to know them, most of them confessed that they thought I was "uppity" or "arrogant" since I mainly had white friends. Now I'm trying to become friends with more of my fellow brother and sisters, but the transition is hard since I still have the stigma or air that I'm "uppity" around me. I hate being singled out because I don't identify as white, nor am I the token black person in a group. Tyler the Creator had it right when he said " I'm too black for the white kids, and too white for the black kids" so you're kinda stuck in this limbo land and unhappy medium of where to venture off too.

[democraticsenator]

The Difficulties I've Faced From Being a Black Girl

I've taken AP English Lang, lost 20 pounds in 3 months, dealt with a broken heart, and read Great Expectations in 3 days, yet the hardest thing I've ever faced, is being a black woman. You see, Malcolm X had it right when he said, "Racism is like a Cadillac, a new brand comes out every year." I've encountered boys that have called me ratchet, before they called my name, had birthday parties where I wasn't invited because, "Having only one black person at my party? That's weird", and had trouble finding my foundation shade because all these shades comes in ivory, porcelain, and "tan". Nice try Publix. I'm tired of mocha being more of an eggshell color, mahogany got mixed up and looks like vanilla, and this "tan" shade is looking more of a dark white. The same ones that think that racism isn't a problem, are the same ones perpetuating it. You see, people like to focus on my ratchet weave, my sassy attitude, and the thickness of my thighs, and act as if labeling me by stereotypes, should automatically come with the amount of melanin in my skin. Behind this weave, is a female waiting to break free of the institutionalized shackles, that prevent me from progressing. A female waiting to be seen as more than just affirmative action. A female that has ideas bigger than my eyebrows. We put laws in place, set amendments forth, and think representation is putting an interracial couple in a Cheerios commercial. I'm tired of these failed attempts, pitiful tries, and half-ass efforts, to "unite" us together. Change does not happen, until our thinking does. People like to think racism ended when Martin Luther King dropped the mic in '63, and dropped his life in '68. Yet employees like to play hide-and-seek with me when I walk the aisles of Sephora. I've had more people touch my hair, than touch my soul. If i'm the token black girl in your joke, then show me to the nearest change jar, because I am a dime that is not to be messed with. But, I'll let my difficulties stay in AP Lang, and leave my struggles to Great Expectations, and get this angry black woman to leave the stage. (D.K.D)

[loveisaliability-blog]

In other words: Why Reverse Racism Isn't a Thing

““Can people of color be racist?” I reply, “The answer depends on your definition of racism.” If one defines racism as racial prejudice, the answer is yes. People of color can and do have racial prejudices. However, if one defines racism as a system of advantage based on race, the answer is no. People of color are not racist because they do not systematically benefit from racism. And equally important, there is no systematic cultural and institutional support or sanction for the racial bigotry of people of color. In my view, reserving the term racist only for behaviors committed by whites in the context of a white-dominated society is a way of acknowledging the ever-present power differential afforded whites by the culture and institutions that make up the system of advantage and continue to reinforce notions of white superiority. (Using the same logic, I reserve the word sexist for men. Though women can and do have gender-based prejudices, only men systematically benefit from sexism.)”

— 

Paula S. Rothenberg- Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, eighth edition  

[democraticsenator]

Dude right like "I'm not racist but I do think that your skin will make a difference in whether I'd like to date you" like okay you can walk away right now

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