This... is White Privilege

Jun. 22, 2012 at 12:51pm with 566 notes

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White privilege is accepting that POCs can relate to films and TV shows with all white characters but being unable to accept that a white or mainstream audience can relate to or enjoy a film or TV show with predominately POC characters because they are too ethnic . You call media and literature that features Black people(and other POC) : black films, black literature, African literature, African American literature, Black art, Asian art(even if the artist has never been to Asia before). Yet you call the same forms of media and literature that features white artists: literature, not european literature, not White American literature, but just literature or simply American literature, you call films that feature only white characters films, not white films, you call it porn not white porn.

You demand that in order for you to enjoy any form of entertainment whiteness must be present yet however when Poc demand to be represented in the same way you scream reverse racism. You exclude Pocs from your media and when we complain you say why don’t you get off your lazy asses and make your own. When we do create our space where we can control how we are represented or heck when we can simply represent ourselves you claim reverse racism.