This... is White Privilege

Aug. 7, 2012 at 10:51pm with 1,308 notes

Reblogged from dionthesocialist

It may not be ALL of you, but it’s ONLY you.

It’s only you who gets to kill people and have everyone jump to your defense.

It’s only you who creates a media market wherein PoC are stereotyped for your entertainment.

It’s only you who imperializes the known world and then has the nerve to tell brown people to get out of “your” country.

It’s only you who comes into other people’s spaces and demands that your needs be attended to.

It’s only you who excludes PoC from your spaces and it’s only you who then accuses PoC of racism when we decide to make our own spaces.

It’s only you who rewrites world history to make yourselves look great by erasing every PoC but a handful that you choose to include on the condition that they be portrayed as peaceful, quiet, and never willing to rock the boat.

It’s only you who creates slurs to oppress and dehumanize every kind of brown person, but throws a hissy fit when someone calls you a cracker.

It’s only you who owns most of the world’s wealth and rules most of the world’s countries by office or by influence, and then have the audacity to call yourselves the 99%.

No, not ALL white people do this, but ONLY white people do this. That’s why I will not add a modifier when I say white people have ruined this world ten times over. It wasn’t all of you, but it was only you.