Exhibit A) This is Your Nation on White Privilege

Exhibit B) How Racism Works (quoted in its entirety)

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said “I do” to? What if Obama were the ( Read more... )

"I don't even think of you as black."

Oh? I don't even think of you as human. Wait, did I say that? So sorry, I meant FUCK YOU.

I'm not black, but it's an insert your oppressed social class here sort of situation - I don't think of you as gay-Mexican-disabled-female, etc.

In a conversation I had with my friend Andrea, on racism and the "colour- ( Read more... )

This was originally posted as a response to an entry in stele3's IJ about these three articles:

Artist calls Obama's daughters "nappy-headed hos."

Michelle Obama called Barack's "baby mama" by Fox "News."

Coincidentally, or not, Fox "News" also called that fist pound a "terrorist fist jab." (huh?)

This probably isn't what you want to hear, and I agree ( Read more... )

One of the best, most well articulated and restrained pieces I've ever read on this subject. 

The Past Didn't Go Anywhere by synecdochic

Quote:

When I was eighteen years old, headed off to theatre school and convinced of my own competence in all things and all matters, I entered a dramatic monologue in the state forensics tournament: one of Zillah's monologues ( Read more... )