so…um…yeah…Gatsby
- it would be nice if in this time of catastrophic inequality, that the film operate as a magnifying lens and demonstrate the economic impact of wealth hoarding, corruption and the mass poverty that results.
- this film won’t
- the story is about manpain. specifically, white manpain.
- all it’s gonna do is make the hordes of gullible poor and getting poorer whites imagine for two hours that a white paradise of excess is still available to them
- and reaffirm that wealth = white
- and that manpain is all that ever matters
DEAR WHITE HIPSTERS AND OTHER WHITE PEOPLE OF TUMBLR, CLICK PLAY AND LISTEN CLOSELY.“We don’t mean to offend you by calling you racist.”
Two slam poets with Brave New Voices deliver this fearless indictment of hipster cultural appropriation and all its collateral damage.
Lol seriously though why does this not have more notes?! I can’t even pick my favorite part. It’s amazing, and flawless, and just… yes.
“Acting like you’re down because you say “fuck the system,” but in the same breathe are quick to gentrify the hell out of my hood.”
“Is that racist? Yes, that is. And we don’t mean to offend you by calling you racist; we know that according to you, we’re all part of the universe. But you have a tendency to treat animals better than humans.”
“We don’t need to hear your feelings about our issues. “To be fair, as a white person—-” “Nononono, shut the FUCK up.””
Reblogging because this is amazing and definitely needs more notes.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! OMG MY GOD YESSSSSSSSSS!
reblogging again because it’s perfect.
THIS IS FUCKING STUPID.
Yeah I said it. These two hating ass females are bashing an generalizing. No one is perfect. Lots of people hold ideals and ideas that I think ludicrous.
But I’m not going to dedicate my time and energy an creativity to bringing them down and poi ting out why they are disliked. Get over yourself.
Mean girls.Oh I get it! Pointing out racism makes us meaner than racists. LOLZ
Yaaaaassssss!
jesus dongsssss
every post about trans issues i make gets derailed by white people
the fight to exist man
THE FIGHT TO EXIST
protip trans people: any comment by white people that lumps all FAAB or MAAB people together short of comments about transmisogyny is probably racist
any comment by white people that discusses what it means to be a man or a woman or male or female is undoubtedly 100% racist
any comment by white people that discusses what language is appropriate for all other FAAB or MAAB people = racist
honestly if you’re white just don’t talk about non-white trans people as a general rule and you’ll spare me the agony of having to see your shit
White People always wanna feel subjugated by Affirmative Action.
- That awkward moment when Whites have one of the lowest unemployment rates.
- That awkward moment when White ex-cons have more of a shot at jobs than a Black man with no record.
- That awkward moment when White company owners are the least likely to hire minorities.
- That awkward moment when the majority of companies are owned by White people.
- That awkward moment when Affirmative Action helps White Women.
It never occurs to them that they might just be shittier than the next White individual. It’s always a Person of Color stealing your shine.
Hahaha, your life is an imagined series of hardships. I’m going to need you to shut the fuck up.
(Source: bijunn)
Hey, if you’re going to write a Tumblr post that’s filled with bigotry and hatred, don’t erase the OP or your blog altogether.
At least have the backbone to stick by what you said instead of deleting at the first sign of people getting pissed at you for it.
All you whiteness upholding people are the same. Say some offensive shit because you’re behind a computer screen but as soon as you get attention for it you delete everything you said.
Weak-ass white supremacists.
Has anyone read this?
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy by Barbara Applebaum.
Barbara Applebaum began her journey, which became the premise for this book, by asking the question, ‘Do I implement what I argue for theoretically?’ (p. 197). She was referring to her belief that teaching for social justice requires more than good intentions, but in fact requires a strong dose of ethical responsibility and accountability. She found that her own ‘well-intentioned’ white students had a difficult time understanding their personal investment in complicity as it related to undoing racism. This disconnect led her to the idea that a pedagogy which addresses this dilemma needs to be explicit and from this she birthed ‘white complicity pedagogy’. Applebaum makes the case that complicity may in fact be unavoidable due to unearned privilege, but that does not denote the necessity of responsibility.Applebaum offers a strong review of the literature on whiteness and critical white studies. One of the primary concepts she addresses is the concept of being ‘whitely’ which is essentially unwillingness on the part of white people to be challenged, even when they attempt to disrupt racism. This is referring to whiteness as a ‘performative way of being’ (p. 17) and is essential to her argument that complicity is unacceptable and not a neutral state of being but in fact an active tenet of racist behaviour. She specifically references examples of this in her own teaching practice, when ‘good’ white students have a difficult time understanding the difference between ‘benefiting’ from racism (an unequal system that privileges white people) to ‘contributing’ to (everyday behaviours that reinforce this system unintentionally) (p. 46). She makes a very important distinction that often times white people prefer to detach from whiteness and often assume they are somehow morally superior, making them ‘neutral’ regarding conversations about race or other ethical questions. This reinforces the idea that somehow whiteness, and therefore white people, are the unspoken norm for others to measure themselves against (i.e., non-white as a term for people of colour).…Read the rest of the review from the Journal of Moral Education
This needed a separate post: I make posts like the Neil Gaiman one ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
crackerthingssaltycrackerssay:
i have conversations like this ALL FUCKING DAY
on days when I’m not stressed
on days where I don’t have to go into my inbox and find REVERSE RAYCISMZZZZ stuck up in it
on days where anti-black motherfuckers and koolaid drinkers aren’t complaining about calling someone dishing out rape threats, stealing culture and other shit a “bitch”
on days where white people aren’t wanking about HOW COME WE CAN’T SING NEGRO SPIRITUALS HOW COME WE CAN HAVE DREADS HOW COME OUR HAIR DOESN’T GET TO BE A FRO HOW COME I CAN’T SAY NIGGER SLAVERY’S OVER WHY ARE YOU STILL COMPLAINING HOW COME YOU CALLED SOMEONE A CUNT AFTER THEY CALLED YOU A CUNT I MEAN I KNOW THEY CALLED YOU A CUNT BUT YOU’RE THE PROBLEM HOW COME YOU TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE HOW COME YOU TALK ABOUT RACISM JUST IGNORE IT AND IT WILL GO AWAY HOW COME YOU DON’T LIKE WHITE WOMEN TELLING YOU THEY’RE GOING TO RAPE YOU HOW COME YOU’RE MAD THAT PEOPLE SAY YOU DESERVE TO BE RAPED HOW COME A WHITE NATIVE CAN’T COMMENT ON THE JUMPING THE BROOM CEREMONY HOW COME YOU KEEP POINTING OUT ANTI-BLACKNESS
on those rare days where there is not much to do, where we’re just discussing whatever, calm conversations happen all the time
but if you think for even half a second
that i will be in a good happy nice mood on a day where all that shit has happened and your ass wants to come in with some “excuse me you said cunt and that is very, very anti-woman” after i just got a nigger chorus in my inbox AND I HAVE A FUCKING CUNT ATTACHED TO MY BODY
you
are
delusional
DELUSIONAL
STOP SMOKING THE PIXIE STICKS BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING WITH YOU
(Source: crackerhell)
8 year old girl of color gets a humiliating award from her teacher.
This is how children of color are treated in schools, people, especially brown children. How will this child trust teachers actually care about her again? Huh? Tell me that.
And fuck the asshole commenters asking why a woman of color can’t check her child’s backpack and do all the homework with her. Just because you fucking white middle-classers have had that privilege, broke people working just to keep a roof over their head and food on their table aren’t as fucking lucky and free as you.
Trying to stay stone cold in the sweltering heat: oh ok i see how it works
So when black people, like Troy Davis, are murdered by the State even though there is a lot of reasonable doubt they even committed a crime…
Liberal white people are mostly silent.
When black people point out how inherently racist the criminal justice system is and how it is made to criminalize and even kill people for being black, like they did to Troy Davis….
Liberal white people are still silent. They might give an occasional commentary about how it all makes them feel bad, but otherwise, they say nothing.
But when George Zimmerman could possibly be facing the death penalty (for now, it’s not even certain!) for undoubtedly murdering Trayvon Martin…
Liberal white people are like, “BUT THE DEATH PENALTY IS WRONG OMG YOU’RE MONSTROUS FOR THINKING THIS IS OKAY IT WON’T BRING TRAYVON BACK AND HOW WILL IT REALLY BRING JUSTICE OMG LET ME SPEW OUT SOME MORE PATRONIZING-AS-FUCK COMMENTARY OMG WHITE JESUS WHERE ARE YOU”
yep
i see what you’re doing, white people
i see it very clearly
Dear white people who follow me:
It seems in the last week a lot of you have gotten confused about where the fuck you are. So this post is for the purpose of reminding you and giving you a chance to leave quietly.
This is a place for:
- Me
- Me
- Also me
- Me as well
- Including me
- My friends and me
- But mostly just me
- Stuff about me
- And lastly, the glorious me
This is NOT a place for:
- white people
- white people’s opinions
- white people’s thoughts
- white people’s discussions
- Discussion on white people that I don’t want to have
- Anything I don’t want to do
- You
- whiteness
- Definitely not white people
- Why are you talking to me when you don’t know that?
- white people’s educations
- why white people are butthurt
- white people’s problems
- Seriously why the fuck are you here
- If you don’t know that this is not whitey space
- Get the fuck out cracker
- and most importantly, NOT white people
If you find that you were misinformed somehow, allow me to gesture to the door for you and wave an exuberant good-bye.
If you find that this is exactly the place you thought it was, thank god, you’re not a complete idiot.
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: Have you ever noticed
I’m not the one spouting logical fallacies left right and sideways.
Point the first: You should really learn to read. Because no where did I say that blacks who are bitter towards whites that have committed racist acts are idiots. I said that blacks who blame all whites and are thus racist towards all whites because of shit some whites still perpetuate (or, worse, because people who are long since dead and gone were enslaved—news flash, no one alive today is anything but distantly related to someone who was actually enslaved, and I’m not gonna shell out compensation to them just because they’re still sore over something I took no part in) are idiots and, yes, racist.
Point the second: You should really pick up a dictionary some time. They are really quite informative! For example.
rac·ism
[rey-siz-uhm]
Show IPA
noun1.2.a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.3.Emphasis is mine. So you see, by being a hateful, intolerant fuck who refuses to acknowledge the fact that blacks can be racist, and anyone who judges someone they don’t know based on the color of someone else’s skin, whether the person doing the judging is black, white, purple, or polka-dotted, is a fucking racist.Point the third: When I say ‘anyone who thinks reverse racism doesn’t exist is an idiot’ I’m basically saying ‘anyone who thinks reverse racism doesn’t exist is an idiot’, nothing more, or nothing less. And I can tell you right now that ‘basically all POC will tell you how reverse racism is bullshit’ is, in itself, bullshit. Some people aren’t stupid enough to think that blacks can’t be racist. I know several ‘POC’ who will tell you exactly that, because they hate the fact that people like you give them a bad name. Some people are exactly that stupid, and they, regardless of the color of their skin, are idiots. Clearly you are included in that number.So, sorry to break it to you, but you’re a racist.hahahahaha, it’s been awhile since someone copy-pasted the dictionary definition of racism into an argument about race. Legit lol’d when I saw it. Seriously, I don’t even know where to start with this. I’m just gonna say you’re bringing up a lot of base level points in this discussion, like, shit that would get debunked in the first week of any African-American Studies 101 course. I’m not really in the mood to explain 2+2 to you, so this’ll probably be my last post on the subject:
- No one is talking about black people who “blame” all whites for racism. I’m talking about black people who are bitter toward all whites for racism. You can’t blame them for that. You have the blame the source. I’m really wondering if you read the post at all, because I went over all of this already. Imagine if you were scratched in the face by different cats multiple times a day. Wouldn’t you be justified in not trusting cats? That’s how it is for POC. We encounter racism from whites on a daily basis. You can’t blame us for getting bitter toward whites. If you don’t want to be judged unfairly, then help us end racism, but don’t you dare blame us for racism when we’re simply reacting to the racism that’s been leveled against us.
- Dictionaries are for defining words, not concepts. You really need to read a book, not a dictionary. Let’s keep up with the cat example. Look up the definition for cat in the dictionary and I guarantee everyone who knows a bit about felines will tell you the definition is not entirely correct. The same thing applies to racism. You can’t equate defining words with explaining concepts, and don’t even get me started on how problematic it is to use the white man’s dictionary to define something that white people can’t experience. That’s just silly.
- Shrug. If your POC friends don’t understand their own oppression, that’s not my problem. I’m just telling you the truth, dude. POC, in general, know reverse racism is bullshit. I can’t remember where I read it, but a recent poll of a college campus found that pretty much only white people think reverse racism exists. Seems kinda weird, doesn’t it?
Anyway, like I said. I’m not in the mood to play kindergarten teacher right now to someone who still cites the dictionary as a source haha. Good night, you racist fuck.
More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart)
this is my father’s story
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
This is what oppressed people hear when you talk about how being yelled at for being oppressive bothers you.
“Stop before you get angry that I am the 40th or 50th person to spout oppressive crap at you since your day started early this morning. Think about me. What if I, the person who is adding onto the avalanche of 40 or 50 people who regularly contribute to your daily torture, have feelings about anger and yelling? I know you are probably thinking about how you can’t take it anymore, but you really need to think about ME and MY feelings. I didn’t mean to be the 40th or 50th person to give you crap today. You’re blaming me for what other people did to you. You need to treat each person individually, even though it’s the culmination of ALL of us that left you in the shithole you are in.
You need to hold YOURSELF in and not curse at me, because that hurts me, and we all know who it is all about. (It’s not you.) I know I hurt you first without warning and you spent your day being hurt by others who are like me without warning either, but really, I am the person who matters here, and I personally don’t think I deserve to receive the backlash that you have meted out. You need to deal with me on MY terms, because MY terms are the terms that are important.
If you curse at me, I will call you verbally abusive and call you a bully. It’s not as if your people aren’t known for being SO hostile already, but I am going to be further oppressive by telling you that you are being too hostile. Instead of leaving the conversation and dealing with MY issue, that I caused by not being responsible and educating MYself on how I oppress others, I am going to continue to oppress you by telling you that I matter, regardless of you. And you need to accept that. Or else I will continue to contribute to your oppression by forcing my dialogue on you. And you are not allowed to be angry about that, either. You hostile verbally abusive asshole.”
(Source: crackerhell)
“White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded – about themselves and about the world they live in. White people have managed to get through entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac. … People who cling to their delusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water. As people still held in bondage must believe that ‘Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make ye free.’”—
James Baldwin, No Name in the Street (1972)
Preach, brotha James! Raise your hand if you have witnessed this feeble grasp on reality for yourself.
My theory, and it’s touched on in Tulpa, or Anne&Me, is that White people’s delusion allows them to live without hating themselves. If they were somehow forced to be aware of the things they do, and the things they are capable of doing, under a system of White supremacy, the whole notion of them being basically decent people would be shattered.
What many White people may fail to understand is that this is a good thing. By tearing down false concepts of goodness and dismantling false virtues, something more powerful and authentic can take their place. By relating to good and evil not as states of being but as choices people make, it is possible to claim one’s freedom and full humanity.
(via eshusplayground)
I was just talking about this with my “big sis” last night.(via ethiopienne)
(Source: darkjez)
This is the place in which, it seems to me, most white Americans find themselves. Impaled. They are dimly, or vividly, aware that the history they have fed themselves is mainly a lie, but they do not know how to release themselves from it, and they suffer enormously from the resulting personal incoherence. This incoherence is heard nowhere more plainly than in those stammering, terrified dialogues white Americans sometimes entertain with that black conscience, the black man in America.
The nature of this stammering can be reduced to a plea: Do not blame me. I was not there. I did not do it. My history has nothing to do with Europe or the slave trade. Anyway, it was your chiefs who sold you to me. I was not present on the middle passage. I am not responsible for the textile mills of Manchester, or the cotton fields of Mississippi. Besides, consider how the English, too, suffered in those mills and in those awful cities! I also despise the governors of Southern states and the sheriffs of Southern counties, and I also want your child to have a decent education and rise as high as his capabilities will permit. I have nothing against you, nothing! What have you got against me? What do you want? But, on the same day, in another gathering, and in the most private chamber of his heart always, the white American, remains proud of that history for which he does not wish to pay, and from which, materially, he has profited so much.
On that same day, in another gathering, and in the most private chamber of his heart always, the black American finds himself facing the terrible roster of his lost: the dead, black junkie; the defeated, black father; the unutterably weary, black mother; the unutterably ruined black girl. And one begins to suspect an awful thing: that people believe that they deserve their history, and that when they operate on this belief, they perish. But one knows that they can scarcely avoid believing that they deserve it; one’s short time on this earth is very mysterious and very dark and very hard. I have known many black men and women and black boys and girls who really believed that it was better to be white than black, whose lives were ruined or ended by this belief; and I, myself, carried the seeds of this destruction within me for a long time.” James Baldwin, “White Man’s Guilt” (via notime4yourshit)
