April 22, 2008...6:00 pm

next time

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next time someone screams reverse racism, this is what i’m going to yell back.

from thefruitfemme after leaving a workshop where the main point was about racism was that it goes both ways:

No it does not actually go both ways. NO it is not all about mean words & hurt feelings. It is actually about infant mortality rates and poverty and deportation and rape and who does/does not have a grocery store on their side of town and who can/cannot get onto the fucking bus which stops running at 7 anyway and whether Scully & Khubz & I are all safe together and it is not is NOT is NOTNOTNOT about whether some person of color said something mean to you when you were in 7th grade. –thefruitfemme

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  • missnomered
    April 22, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Yes. Yes. YES!

    My law class is full of privileged, white, upper-middle-class, straight kids, and they are constantly whining about how discrimination either doesn’t exist, or they’re the ones being discriminated against. Gag me with a spoon.

    I think most of them “tolerate” the fact that I’m queer… but let’s see how tolerant they’ll be if I bring a female date to prom next year.

    Anyways, one of them, a rich white chick who does nothing but complain about how she’s discriminated against for being white, was complaining about how discriminated against she was because she couldn’t go to a seminar about scholarships for African-Canadian students.

    Ugh.

  • Cara
    April 22, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    Word!

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  • meghan rose
    April 23, 2008 at 10:07 am

    SO very true.

    another of my favorite responses to the idiotic idea of reverse racism is something one of my criminology profs mentioned…he said, it’s like a seesaw. in order to have reverse racism, we would have had to swing through a period of equality, and equality has never existed.

    thank you for this post.

  • Lauren
    April 23, 2008 at 10:42 am

    AWESOME. sooo great. I’m going to repost this and link back. I wish more white folks could wrap their heads around this. When I try to discuss the concept of privilege and institutionalized racism with some people, they immediately talk about how racism goes both ways and there are a lot of POC who hate white people. so fucking what? it’s not about that at all.

  • MsTexasJD
    April 23, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Thank you for posting this. I think I will yell this back at people too. =)

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