My last salvo at Stuff White People Do blog

[witchsistah]

This is when the blog owner, Macon, flounced his own blog. I'm posting this because it ties in with the reasons why I'm for chivalry and think BW really need to think critically about it and not just go along with what privileged, WW think about it. Here's my last words on that and how the BW there were treated:

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Yeah, basically my feeling.

[ext_374753]

I know this older black lady, who is Christian and I completely lost respect for her. After a series of exchanges she told me that this white boy she was friends with is racist, and that she's trying to reform him. She's a sweet woman but very stupid.

Not even sweet I feel like for her the only investment that she has in this conflict is some type of "victory". Just because he's "your friend" that doesn't make him less racist, what the fuck!

This particular woman, she's very self effacing. She expects people to fawn over her and she'll endure any humiliation to attain that.(She's a preacher, in training.)

At this point, I feel like the only way to end racial conflict is to stop engaging racist people. At all. I have to get through the school system, but I notice a lot of older black people are pretty complacent with racism. They totally ignore the younger generation when we make complaints of any kind. I see this attitude a lot with them. They are way more sympathetic to the white people when they do or say something racist than they are to the victims or targets of that racism. "Let's talk this out." "Be the bigger person."

Fuck that. I'm tired of talking.

Re: Yeah, basically my feeling.

[witchsistah]

I don't know how old the woman in question is, but if she's around my age (early 40s), she may be acting that way because that's how many of us were taught. We were the first generation to grow up AFTER the Civil Rights Era. We mostly didn't know about ish like segregated accomodations. AND we were taught to be ambassadors for our race. This was especially daunting since we would have, in many ways--but not so much in others, much more access to White people than our forebears. Part of this ambassadorship was to go out and show Whites that we were just as good and as human as they were. For many Blacks, part of this was trying to convert Whties to theis thought process.

The thing is, after decades of this work and seeing poor results, many of us former race ambassadors are tired. That's why it ticks us off when Whites insist we try not only talking to them, but talking to them nicely, politely and in many cases obsequiously in order to relate racial matters with them. It's not like we haven't been doing that all of our lives. But if you want me to talk to you, then you have the obligation of actually LISTENING to me. That last part, WP fall down on.

Re: Yeah, basically my feeling.

[ext_374753]

You ain't never lied. I wish more people PoC had your conviction and integrity.

Re: Yeah, basically my feeling.

[witchsistah]

Dude, I don't always have my conviction and integrity.