March 2012
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Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
Not Racism: PoC generalizing white people to protect themselves; including avoiding them in any capacity.
Racism: Calling that "prejudice" as if it's on the level of prejudices that actually damage anyone. It's called REASONABLE PARANOIA.
...add your own examples.
February 2012
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teddyevelynmosby replied to your post: teddyevelynmosby replied to your post: …
i hate this. :|
fuck columbia?
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burningbrighterstill:
Bangarang - Skrillex
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what if kanye west was less ambitious
fireking:
silver digger
just one light
you can tell me something
strong
lost in the park
jesus sits
touch the ceiling
dirt from sierra leone
pretty good life
the lights flashed
power outage
walk away
n——s in paris, texas
teddyevelynmosby replied to your post: teddyevelynmosby replied to your post: just…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I’M SO SORRRRRY D:
teddyevelynmosby replied to your post: just bought my midnight premier ticket for the hunger games…
where are you going for it?
i’m gonna be in nyc
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for every fandom and obsession i get, i blame all...
cause in the real world, no one takes blame for anything.
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just bought my midnight premier ticket for the...
i think the post series depressions shakes are coming through and i’m not even finished with the series.
THANKS DEANNA.
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i ain’t sayin’ she a gold-digger, but she did move...
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does no one think it's weird that Wren and Spencer...
like she’s 16…drunk…and in a 24+ old man’s apartment? maybe i’m the only one who is getting the creeps by this.
he knowingly let a 16 year old drink in his apartment…
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My favorite lounge at college has a few couches, a TV, and a piano. Most of the time, people just sit in here and study, which is good. It’s really nice on the weekends to watch movies in.
So today, I went to go study in the lounge and I’ve been here for hours just doing my work. Most of the time, people come and study and then leave, but these two assholes decide to come in, EVEN...
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as much as i love jersey shore, this misogyny in...
Vinny realizes that this girl (Nikki? Let’s go with Nikki) is a lesbian but continues to go after her because he believes he’s a “good transition” for lesbians and also believes, “bringing a lesbian to the straight team is like Christopher Columbus discovering America” (we’ll leave out the mass genocide and the fact that it wasn’t really the North...
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when jenni was walking back from the club, i was...
blah. emotions.
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irenigg:
if the ring had black people it wouldnt be about a haunted video it’d be about a haunted evicton summons going around “you have seven days to appear in court”
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