>Are you white?
Yes I am white
>Because I think you are white.
>You sound white. And even,
>that was a very white
>response.
Meaning my response to what racism is? Ive heard blacks use this too, are you saying then they have been assimilated?
>What I mean is this, you
>don't have to think about
>the power piece because it
>is part of your privilege
>as a white person.
Yes, I do realize that there is a definate advantage of being white, I do realize that when driving I am not going to be glared at by cops, in stores I know I will not be followed. Its like a man riding is bike up a hill, being white, Ive got the wind pushing up my back helping up. If I were black, that wind would be at my front.
You
>don't have to think, see,
>hear, or feel anything YOU
>don't want to. It isn't
>going to change or shift
>your life in any way,
>sense, form, or idea.
Well, I dont have to, but I choose to see these things going on in the world, and I feel they should be changed. Yes, it does shift my life, b/c it pisses me off to see anyone treated this way. Or the fact that I have an advantage to being white. Yes, there are white folk who dont like having this advantage.
>Being white means that you want
>us (read: people of color)
>to see you as being
>an individual. But if you
>are so individual, why do
>you have this privilege?
Did I ask for this privilege? No, it just happened that way.
And
>why is this privilege spread
>to other people who look
>like you (or who became
>white) collectively?
b/c we look like the ones who were/are the oppressers.
>*leans head to the side*
>
>Q
>
>
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>
>"americans are gross!" -utamaroho
>
>Uplifting thoughts:
>
>"We are the end result of
>our ancestors prayers as they
>died. We you are the
>sum total of their answered
>prayers."
>
>"I am because we are; we
>are because I am."
>
>"falling in love with somebody's soul...their
>essence their personality their walk
>their talk the way they
>speak and smile...no matter what
>the physical outer body is..male
>or female...is a temptation i
>hope i am never foolish
>enough to resist." - Hot
>Damali