November 2012
Trayvon Martin’s Murderer Now Selling His... →
deliciouskaek:
invisiblelad:
Bust out your scrapbook because you could soon be in possession of the autograph of George Zimmerman, the man who shot down teenager Trayvon Martin for being black and carrying his Skittles. Jesus. Well, you might as well buy two because one day they might be collector’s items.IN HELL.
Zimmerman announced the desperate grasp for cash onhis website, stating that...
White Women and White Privilege: Telling Them NO
blackfeministmanifesto:
gradientlair:
I wrote a post about White women and white privilege a few days ago—about how dealing with microaggressions and racism from them is often something I’m expected to ignore, and process racism as something that can only come from White men. From college days to corporate America to daily interactions in places of business to social media, I’m bombarded by...
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#945
White privilege is claiming there’s a war on Christmas even though the holiday is the most represented solstice in the mainstream media.
Having white privilege does not mean
thegoddamazon:
realestniggacailou:
that your life is awesome
that you are rich
that you are happy
that you are perfect and/or flawless
that you are pretty
that you are abled bodied, cis, straight, or male
nothing bad ever happened to you ever
that a black/POC has never done some fucked up shit to you
that black/POC can’t do fucked up shit
that black/POC are perfect/flawless
that you...
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#944
White privilege is trying so hard to be politically correct around diverse groups, and then “relaxing” when you’re surrounded with other white people.
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#943
White privilege is not being shot at by police while holding a rifle. They are there for a seizure of animals and this guy had the audacity to pull out a rifle and make aggressive moves towards the cops and he was not shot.
White privilege is being alive after this whole ordeal.
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#942
White privilege is condoning individual white people who are passive when it comes to issues of racism because “it is the system that is racist, not them” while expecting individual PoC to go out and fight the racist system white people have created on behalf of all PoC.
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#941
White privilege is my student newspaper putting a city council meeting on the front page and delegating a Black Power rally with Angela Davis to the inside, even when there are about four thousand more people in attendance at the latter.
My editors are trying to change it last-minute, but none of them knew who Angela Davis is. It was only when I said something about how important this event was...
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#940
White privilege is the idea that white voters voted because of the issues but, POC voters voted because they wanted “stuff.”
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#939
White privilege is thinking that niceness can cure injustice
