Collegiate Fairytale

asderathosoriginalthoughts:

thislovesongrequiem:

When your people have been stolen from their families, enslaved, lynched, beaten, treated like cattle and shut out from every aspect of society by another racial group until about 60 years ago, then we can talk about racism towards white people. Until then shut the fuck up.

I mean seriously, how dare you compare one incident where a POC looked at you funny to centuries of systematic oppression. If you think the race issues you experience as a white person are even comparable to the ones black people experience every day then you need to get out of your privilege bubble pronto.

You can’t rewrite history to suit your own agenda. Centuries of hatred and aggression and racism against black people do not just go away. The fact that some white people even think it’s the same thing is a fucking joke. White people would much rather view themselves as victims than admit there are problems with the way society treats POC and work to fix those problems. I have no sympathy for them anymore.

Asderathos: Frankly I know way too damn much history. Many things I’d presume most people don’t. Like the first person to own a life sentenced slave in the American colonies was black. As before all there were were temporarily endentured servants from Africa, who were at one time or another released. A rather typical thing to acknowledge about the African slave trade, is both the fact that both Africans who did not consider Africans of other tribes to be of any significant relation and people who were related, sold the very slaves themselve. And of course the US part in it was dwarfed by the rest of the pacific root, not to mention the Islamic slave trade and the unparalleled barbarity, you’ve probably never heard about.

But hey, I’m white! and espousing something you plainly can’t understand so I must be the ignorant one. 

You’d presume PsOC, to suffer ‘systematic oppression’ today? well then you are by definition completely insane. 

I suppose like a madman screaming into the void I’ll go ahead and explain the blitheringly simple concept that no one LITERALLY NO ONE, is comparing being called names to lynchings. However Evil is Evil, and racism is racism. A white man calling a black man the N-word IS exactly equal to a black man calling a white man Cracker. Period. 

You are accusing you’re friendly neighborhood vender of comparing apples and oranges when he’s got an apple in each hand. 

The history of the separate farms that the two apples were grown on has nothing to do with their being apples.

now go be hysterical.~

Oh, sweetie no. Just no.

But bonus points for the old ‘black people had slaves’ argument. It’s the historical version of ‘black people kill other black people’ that we saw after Trayvon Martin’s death and slightly more sophisticated than ‘I know you are, but what am I’. A nice way to absolve white people of the hateful stuff they’ve done in the past.

Your effort is admirable, and your apples and oranges comparison is inspired, if not misguided, but you once again have missed the point. There is an inherent difference between ‘cracker’ and ‘nigger’. Like I said, you can’t rewrite history. Though that certainly won’t stop you from trying, I see.

Nice try though. Really, solid effort, my dear.

Love,

A hysterical, insane black person

strugglingtobeheard:

audiodopexx:

sonofafieldnegro:

I’m not gonna deal with the commentary below ‘cause I don’t wanna and I’m on my Bobby Brown. (Late 80s R&B reference—deal with it.)  I will say this though:

EVEN IF I were to accept the argument that people of color can be racist against whites (and to be absolutely clear, I do not under any circumstances accept this argument), thus conceding the premise that this type of racism occurs at all, the idea that this type of discrimination is so rampant, so damaging to white people everywhere is simply laughable.  Really?

Can you catch a cab in the city?  ’Cause I can’t.  Have you ever fit some vague description and stopped by police officers? ‘Cause I have.  Have you ever been denied housing because, upon meeting the landlord, magically someone else took the apartment not twenty minutes before you arrived?  ’Cause I have.  Ever heard stories of lynchings of distant relatives drunkenly whispered by aunts and uncles? ‘Cause I have.  Ever been denied services, ever had someone grip the bag a little tighter or turn their wedding ring when you’re in their presence or had people feel as if touching you without permission was wholly acceptable because you look “different.” Yes, yes, yes to all three.

This “what about me” pathology is so sickening.  How dare you compare being allegedly bullied by the one black girl in your school to more than four hundred years of race-based, systemic enslavement, under resourcing and intentional psychological trauma against peole of color in this nation.  The temerity it takes to audaciously declare that your experience and history is in anyway similar or equitably damaging to those of POC is wholly representative of the high level of privilege you possess.  How dare you? And I’d seriously like an answer to that.  Please tell me how that equates?

You cannot have this, too.  Steal and appropriate our cultural artforms, gentrify our neighborhoods, lay claim to historic figures, whitewash us from the broader American culture and there is little we can do stop you.  But to lay claim to some false history of racist and disenfranchisement as a means of alleviating one’s self and one’s ancestors to the continued systems of racism and oppression against POC in this nation, is beyond boundary of acceptable. 

**steps off soapbox** I’m done.  May tumblr become my happy place again.

i erased everything else but this because the rest of the nonsense below makes my blood boil and i don’t need that. but really, this is good. it’s a man’s perspective, but it is 100% truthful in their experiences and with pointing out exactly how even if we were “racist” against white people, how not the same it is as racism towards people of color. 

When your people have been stolen from their families, enslaved, lynched, beaten, treated like cattle and shut out from every aspect of society by another racial group until about 60 years ago, then we can talk about racism towards white people. Until then shut the fuck up.

I mean seriously, how dare you compare one incident where a POC looked at you funny to centuries of systematic oppression. If you think the race issues you experience as a white person are even comparable to the ones black people experience every day then you need to get out of your privilege bubble pronto.

You can’t rewrite history to suit your own agenda. Centuries of hatred and aggression and racism against black people do not just go away. The fact that some white people even think it’s the same thing is a fucking joke. White people would much rather view themselves as victims than admit there are problems with the way society treats POC and work to fix those problems. I have no sympathy for them anymore.

(Source: asderathosoriginalthoughts)

10 screencaps from 10 favorite shows - parks and recreation [5/10]

ohlittlerachel:

after a reporter was asking him questions while he was trying to eat breakfast

#my president is actually leslie knope

Just two people in love holding each other close in the tiny park they made together. What more could you want in life?

(Source: occupypawnee)