White isn't a race. It's a construct. You are not white. Get out of your feelings when white people are brought up. Y'all wanna call us African American but no one calls y'all European American. You are not from here. Your people are not indigenous to this land. I ask "white" people all the time: Where are your people originally from? You have the privilege of being able to trace your family history back to Europe I'm sure. Well, even though US racism originated there, those people don't call themselves white. The term white is completely and purely an American construct. It was created because the divide and conquer strategy works. Look at our country now. Even the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines white as "honest" and "pure". It defines black as "wicked" and "evil". This was planned so now that even Irish and Italian people, who would never refer to each other as white, call themselves this now. Even Jewish people, 6 million of which were rounded up and killed because they were NOT part of the "master race", now call themselves white in America... How did this happen? It was planned and people are falling for this divide-and-conquer strategy. When I say "abolish whiteness" I'm saying tear down this system that defines me as something I'm NOT in an effort to divide us and oppress me. Call yourself what you are because white isn't a heritage. It is simply a term that was made up by a group of RACIST, European, land-stealing, enslaving males that wanted to keep their women in subjugation while dividing and conquering the people that look like me. Know thyself because knowledge of self is power...
Funny how you don't even know how white supremacist this comment is. The action of exposing racism is in itself not only not racist, it's anti-racism. White people created an entire economic system on the pillars of racism, slavery, and genocide. Speaking that truth isn't racist... Making it illegal to teach it to your own children because you're so ashamed of it... Is...
Holy fuck dude..... this has absolutely nothing to do with you taking a group of people and making bigoted statements about them. What are you even talking about? If you don't think people should be called white or black, why the hell are you making statements like "That's typical of white males in this country."
So far if I'm keeping score you have called me an oppressor and a white supremacist. And this is based entirely on the color of my skin and because I think it's bullshit that you make generalized bigoted comments about another race. You're lost man. Completely lost.
Right. People who refer to themselves as white and are proud of that constructed term (created so you and I couldn't even have this conversation) are proud of the history behind it. History that is racism, slavery, genocide, and separatism. If you want to be proud of that be my guest. Even people from great Britain don't call themselves white. They call themselves British. People who subscribe to the term, subscribe to the divide and conquer strategy. You can look up your history and find out exactly where your people come from. Do the work and you will know your heritage because it surely isn't "white" nor is mine black. I'm FORCED latch onto the term black. While y'all call us African American there are 54 countries there and that history has been stolen from us. We cannot trace our history to our country of origin...
Then stop talking about white people! Like..... wtf man...... you're talking in circles. Do you even realize the shit you say sometimes?
The people of the overall global minority control every system that oppresses every indigenous people on every continent. And you want us to be quiet...
Do you think I want to categorize? There's a little check box that I have to choose on government forms, on jobs, on surveys.... fucking everywhere. I don't even want to pick it. I'm not proud of the color my skin. Just like I'm not proud of my hair color or my eye color or my shoe size. But in America I'm categorized as white/Caucasian. So when you're talking about white men, I'm part of that group. Not by choice. I was born into it. I don't appreciate you making generalizations about me. I don't appreciate you making generalizations about how I feel about black people. I don't like that you make generalizations about how I feel about my own race.
Congratulations. If I changed his statements to this, how would you feel then? "That's typical of women in this country." "That's typical of gay people in this country." "That feeling you're feeling right now, it's called female fragility. It's the reason you get upset when someone generalizes women..."
Stop... What a fucking cop out... You are NOT white. You were told you are white. Anything learned can be unlearned. You and only yours can stop this racist hatred and oppression that happens to my people. If you're not racist, stop the people who are... It's bullshit to take the easy road out in this caste system. Only black people can solve our internal problems, but the outside systems that continue to oppress us must be recognized and abolished. And it must be people like you to do it. "White folks know they all they need to know. They know they don't want to be black in America." - James Baldwin
Man, you're angry. lol I liked his comments because I agree with the majority of what he is saying and has said on here in the past. White fragility is very real. I remember very early on with a lot of the decentralizing and what not training I've done through school, it hits you where you start to get angryor defensive about being blamed, until you take a step back. Then you see the same tired excuses trotted out a lot. Well, I didn't own slaves, why don't they get over it. Well I didn't do any lynching. Well I didn't...yadda yadda yadda. And, I just disagree that generalizing white people is somehow on par with the general racism we see every day in our society towards the global majority.
