The Black Experience
Found on Tumblr:
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“The black experience in America is the default analogy/metaphor/allegory for other people’s complaints. White feminists call themselves the Niggers of the World. White homosexuals think they are the New Black. White Liberals think corporations and banks treat them like slave owners treated their slaves. That last comparison is most egregious given what slavery actually was (murder, rape, forced free labor, terrorism) and given that populations that suffer most at the hands of corporations and banks don’t like in the United States. The worst part, though? The black people who co-sign and add legitimacy to the nonsense because they, too, have been taught a warped history.”
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Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
Whenever anyone says, “X is the new Black”, it shows that what they are actually angry about is some treatment that is happening to Black people now, usually in much worse ways, is OK for Black people but not ok for group X…
…in which case, the argument isn’t against the injustice itself, it’s the notion of being treated like Black people.
(via bankuei)
oh dear God thank you for this!!
(via blackfoxx)
Meanwhile, folks wanna deny Black folks experience ANY racism or discrimination and that we’re “post-racial.”
(via witchsistah)
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“The black experience in America is the default analogy/metaphor/allegory for other people’s complaints. White feminists call themselves the Niggers of the World. White homosexuals think they are the New Black. White Liberals think corporations and banks treat them like slave owners treated their slaves. That last comparison is most egregious given what slavery actually was (murder, rape, forced free labor, terrorism) and given that populations that suffer most at the hands of corporations and banks don’t like in the United States. The worst part, though? The black people who co-sign and add legitimacy to the nonsense because they, too, have been taught a warped history.”
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Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
Whenever anyone says, “X is the new Black”, it shows that what they are actually angry about is some treatment that is happening to Black people now, usually in much worse ways, is OK for Black people but not ok for group X…
…in which case, the argument isn’t against the injustice itself, it’s the notion of being treated like Black people.
(via bankuei)
oh dear God thank you for this!!
(via blackfoxx)
Meanwhile, folks wanna deny Black folks experience ANY racism or discrimination and that we’re “post-racial.”
(via witchsistah)