#white immigrants

[theswordofdamntheseknees]

[sbrown82]

Immigration officials say Pelosi attacker was in US illegally | CNN Politics

David DePape, the man accused of violently attacking Paul Pelosi last week, was in the United States illegally and may face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security said late Wednesday.

Well, what’d ya know. These white “illegal immigrants” wreaking havoc?!

[lejacquelope]

[lejacquelope]

Driver charged in 7 motorcycle deaths has arrest records in 6 states

The man charged with seven counts of vehicular homicide after he collided with motorcyclists in Randolph, N.H. has arrest records in six states.

The story gets worse. Yet STILL no talk about Ukrainian (white) immigrants. If this guy were Mexican, though......

[thevalicemultiverse]

You know, Despite the fact you guys are Immigrants, the ICE won't come after you, no matter what.

Alice: Oh, we’re well aware. If being president were based on whiteness, Victor would already be in office despite his age and only having lived here about four years.

Victor: I’d like to point out Victoria’s pretty pale too.

Alice: Not as pale as you. You are the most extreme example of Caucasian I’ve ever seen.

[bookphile]

Dear fellow white immigrants, if you like to compare your experiences to immigrants of color, you better cut that shit out. Because while it may have been awful for you because of some xenophobic assholes, you didn’t have to deal with racism on top of it. Especially considering that most of us white immigrants are just as racist and xenophobic towards each other, as native populations are towards us. I hear just as much toxic, racist bullshit coming from my own immigrant community as I do from the [white] Americans.

I’ve been called names, spat on, yelled at to speak “American”, told to go back to my own country, and laughed at when my English was broken by both children and adults. In college, I was told by a fucking career specialist not to put “Fluent in Russian” on my resume because no one would hire me to be a professional writer because of my last name [they’d think less of me for not being a native speaker - showed her didn’t I?].  (Also, don’t compare learning a fucking European language to people of color learning English. You don’t know what it’s like to be treated like shit because you can’t speak English, to be treated like you don’t deserve to be there. You’re learning the language to “appreciate a culture” they’re learning the language in order to survive living in the culture that continuously rejects them.)

My whiteness protects me from being called terrorist, from being told I set feminism back decades because of my religious choices, from being refused service, or being profiled  and seen as suspicious on the subway or planes because of the color of my skin. My Indian coworker was’t sure about carrying his briefcase after there was a bomb-threat in Boston, my boss didn’t want to take his katana (a gift someone gave him) home with him because he knew he couldn’t go outside or on a subway with it. He actually had to bring his car to take it home.

Even though I’m an immigrant, I still get a shit ton of white privilege, and sometimes I’m even treated better than people who lived in US their whole lives. Two cop cars came to my house while my friend’s husband waited in the car for her because someone called it in as “suspicious” because he was waiting in the car while black. I fucking ran outside because scenes from Ferguson flashed in my head and I knew they’d believe a tiny white girl over a black man.

So yeah, we might get shit on for being immigrants, but we sure as hell don’t get as much shit as immigrants of color. So shut the hell up, pay attention, and don’t let them turn us against each other. Because if you don’t notice the preferential treatment white immigrants get over our fellow immigrants of color or even native people of color, you’re just another willfully blind, ignorant, racist, asshole.

[gobacktonormandy]

Get back to Normandy son.