treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity
Recently I've been thinking about the way that bourgeois people of all races are being offered selected opportunities to become part of the white race.
This comes partly from thinking about conservative AsAm and Latino support for "model minority" status and for the idea that the "system" is fair (see also Lani Guinier's critique of "meritocracy ( Read more... )
This comes partly from thinking about conservative AsAm and Latino support for "model minority" status and for the idea that the "system" is fair (see also Lani Guinier's critique of "meritocracy ( Read more... )
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let's try again:
(i like the pretty. :) ok. thoughts. somewhat coherent. or not.)
Thus ‘white women, as a group, are subordinated through seduction, women of Color, as a group, through rejection’ we've discussed many times about the differences between white women and black women* in the struggle. and i think that this paragraph really puts it into context. the fight for equity (not equality) is framed differently depending on your ethnicity/race. and so, our actions differ. our attitudes. our perceptions of self and of other women. white women have long feared black women. black women who proved alluring to white men. black women who couldn't say no because their lives depended on it. black women who were not seen as women, so it was okay to brutalize, objectify, and take them at will. white women, in a position of considerably more power, were in a place to further oppress black women. and that had ramifications for black children and black men as well, as angiej wrote so well ( ... )
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this was good stuff.
I don't think people want to think beyond their own survival, because lord knows, that's hard enough. But at least at this point, it may be that on some level we have to be willing to give up a certain amount of privilege in order to move the cause forward.
yes. very much.
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