Overheard on a White “progressive” talkshow:
"OMG Daniele Watts, the actress from Django Unchained was arrested for suspicion of prostitution! She’s Black and her boyfriend is White, but only she was arrested! That was probably racism. Maybe. Oh no, wait…heh, turns out *she* was actually having sex with him. Well *that* changes everything, now doesn’t it? Totally not racism. See guys, this is why we can’t be so quick to just label everything racism right off the bat”
Seriously? (see also: » crier deniers)
Me: hole up…wait a minute…like WTF does that ***derailing*** tidbit even change? How does “sex” somehow magically negate the fact that the White boyfriend was NOT arrested, but the Black woman was, when they were BOTH there??? Why did HE get a pass but SHE got arrested if they were BOTH allegedly engaged in an illegal act?
This is a good example of precisely why I have a BIG problem with a lot of White liberal “allies” who constantly believe that their whiteness alone gives them the all the expertise they’ll ever need to white-splain racism and definitively declare what is, and what is not racism from--of all places--the LAPD. All of this absolute "certainty" about racism from White people who have never, and will never experience racism themselves
Too many White people (and yes, too many White progerssive “allies”) are wearing White privilege racial blinders and are DESPERATE to use any opportunity to perpetuate » post racial feel good tropes and seek out almost any tiny minutia to excuse, minimize, deny or otherwise needlessly equivocate to exonerate obvious racism
(related post: what NOT to do when you're white and you fail to see racism in instances where Black people do)
