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A rich guy, a white guy and a black guy sit down at a table together. There’s a plate of 12 cookies, the rich guy grabs 11 of them and says to the white guy “watch out, that black guy’s trying to steal your cookie”.
THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO I’VE EVER SEEN
Dear God….
I am fucking dying omg
I’m the second “Berkley” yell
Oh my fucking god
Always reblog.
i love this video so much. it truly taught me how racism hurts white people. it opened my eyes. they are the real victims. #staywoke
[Note: When J. Elliot refers to her being classed as one of ‘your people’ in relation to black people of color, it’s based on her reputation of being an outspoken, anti-racism ally].
- Jane Elliot on the Oprah Winfrey Show panel on racism in 1992.
White people get deeply offended hearing black people speak this truth, so maybe hearing Jane Elliot say it will cut through the white fragility: White people’s default setting is racism. Because America’s default setting is racism. That doesn’t mean they cannot unlearn it, but anti-Blackness is so ubiquitous in Western culture that unlearning racism is not something that just magically happens because you think you’re a good person. It’s not something you attain and then forget about. It’s a perishable skill.
Nobody becomes “not racist” by repeatedly declaring “But hey, I’M not racist” on social media. Becoming “not racist” is defined by conscious choice, coupled with actions—like listening to black people, calling out racism, and not saying or doing racist things—that prove you aren’t racist. Being “not racist” is something that needs to be worked on CONSTANTLY.
I’m physically and emotionally tired.
Stop white people forever.
-Mod S
That little girl literally had the “look into the camera like Jim on The Office” reaction.
-Mod Q
I don’t know if this is a worthy addition to this post or not. But this is one of the starkest examples of white privilege that I’ve ever myself experienced.
Look at that little girl. That baby got it. Immediately. She’s so tiny but she knew her mother had just been microaggressed.
I’m officially in my thirties. I listened to this clip more than once. I had never heard this stereotype before. If I’d heard this conversation in any other context – without the comments below it, without highlighting the little girl’s reaction… I probably wouldn’t have even realized there was a “joke” being made.
I see attempts made all the time to protect ignorant white teenagers from having to learn about racism, even when they are themselves being actively racist. Even explaining to them that they’re being rude is apparently too mean. So we are allowed to become grown-ass adults who still don’t know the first thing about racism, can’t recognize it when it’s happening right in front of us unless people have gotten out their white hoods.
And while we’re bending over backwards to ensure ignorant white people like me don’t ever get our feelings hurt by learning about racism in the abstract, claiming that nineteen and twenty-year-olds are “still children” and should be treated with kid gloves, we can’t be bothered to protect the innocence of actual babies like this little girl.
She doesn’t even look ten years old, and she knows more about racism than I– I was gonna say “did”, isn’t that funny. No. She knows more about racism than I do. She knows more about racism than I ever will, even now that I’m actively seeking this stuff out, and she has learned it all the hard way.
^^^ ok yes this was a good addition to this post
I fucking hate it when I’m scrolling through a good blog thinking “hmm might follow this” and then I see that ridiculous post whitesplaining to black Americans that racism is “different” in Europe and that white people can be victims of racism here.
No. We’re not. White people from Poland and Romania and other countries can be victims of xenophobia. People of colour are victims of racism. And racism in the UK looks much like racism in America - we have police brutality against black people, a disproportionate amount of black people in prison, Islamophobic hate crime, lack of POC representation in our media, a disproportionate amount of POCs living in poverty and all the rest of it.
White people are not victims of racism. We can be victims of xenophobic hate crime, xenophobic discrimination and xenophobic legislation but we will never ever be victims of racism.
And you can sit there and shrug and say “meh same difference” but it fucking matters. It matters because white people are responsible for racism whether we like it or not. We all benefit from white privilege and we’re all complicit to varying degrees. When people blur the lines between racism and xenophobia, it leads to the fallacy that anyone can be a victim of racism, which means nobody is really responsible and nobody has any particular obligation to examine their thoughts and actions.
Xenophobia is dangerous and life threatening and oppressive. We don’t have to mislabel it as racism to understand that. Racism and xenophobia have separate histories and separate causes. It’s not difficult to learn the difference.
THANK YOU!
If anyone tries to use, “If black people can have black pride, white people can have white pride.” argument show this to them because my man is laying down some truth.
Ignorant fools/racists:
More white people are killed by cops that black people.
This guy:
Clip ‘n save.
“You can stop saying that dumb shit.”
Can someone transcribe this for me? (Sorry I have a severe hearing loss)
@timelesschild13 Here is the transcription from a few posts back.
“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enabled them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others.”
— bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From margin to center (via ceedling)
That is some serious tea.
Needs to be 100%.
The 10% are the white criminals
So it’s only good to have white people in a show with mostly black people if they’re criminals?
That’s Diversity I guess.
Did you just drag yourself because lemme tell you…
White people are more likely to get hired because their names sounds white.
White kids are punished less for the same behavior than black kids
White convicts are more likely to get a job than black people without records.
A white person with no college degree is just as like to get hired as a black person with a college degree
All white juries (it’s starts on page 11) are more likely to convict black criminals than white ones.
Black people are more likely to be stopped and frisked than white people even though they have a higher drug usage than us.
White people (majority of doctors) think that black people feel less pain
Black people get longer sentences than white people
White people use the majority of drugs but black people go to jail longer. This talks more about why our jails and prison are full of black and poor people
White people push for harsher laws when they think it will affect black people
Since this is much longer than the others if you scroll down to figure 5 and read the information about it that’s where this is detailed but the whole thing is a good read.
Reblogging this to here because I can never find examples of white privilege and systematic oppression when I go searching for it in our blog or my personal one.
