so-treu:

i need you to come to terms with the way white women have facilitated some of the most unspeakable violence upon black and brown and indigenous people, bodies, and community. often in the name of white womanhood. often in the name of freedom. often in the name of feminism.

i need you to understand that you killed Emmitt Till. i need you to think about all of the black men and boys that have been murdered because either you accused them or your men took it upon themselves to defend *your* honor. i need you to look at pictures of lynched bodies and think about what role you played in it.

i need you to know the names of the women raped by U.S. military in countries we invaded, in part because feminists said we needed to save the women and/or children and supported the various invasions.

i need you to know that those reproductive rights you all are up in arms about were created via the destruction and maiming of black and brown bodies. i need you to know who Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsy are, and what was done to them. i need you to know the names of the Puerto Rican women who were lied to and who died so that The Pill could bring you your precious sexual liberation. i need you to know the central role white women played in sterilization programs that targeted black women, poor women, anyone they deemed too “feeble” to procreate. i need you to think about why more big name feminist organizations are up in arms about the most recent kick up about contraception than about sterilized black women getting compensated for what was done to them.

i need you to understand that at this point, it’s not about privilege. it’s not about you being able to find products that work with your hair no matter where you go. it’s about people’s lives. it’s about WOC lives and a centuries old disregard white women have shown for them. it’s about that fact that white women have been an active agent in the destruction of our communities, our histories, and our families. for centuries.

and WOC don’t owe you a damn thing. not. one. thing.

so get that through your skulls then maybe we can work together. maybe.

queerhairyvag:

1. Don’t assume those you intend to help even wanted your help.
2. You are not there to ‘help’ anyone. Help assumes you are in authority and they depend on you.
3. You are there to work with people.
4. Those people are not charity cases: they are human beings with feelings history and personal identities.  Like you. Treat them as such.
5. That means stop thinking its so goddamn ’beautiful’ to hold a black child’s hand or ‘inspiring’ when you wear their clothes and practice their customs or ‘amazing’ when you see a person wear western clothes.
6. You’re exotifying people based on racist and ignorant ideas you had of them. Go back to no. 4
7. The people you work with don’t exist to make you/your life look better.
8. Don’t assume you know what’s best for them.  Ask. Listen.
9. Listen to them more than those you view as your ‘equals’ (fellow volunteers/white ppl)
10. Don’t expect those you work with to be thankful to you.  They didn’t ask you to work with them in the first place. 
11. You are not there to ‘save the day’.
12. Treat them the way you treat your friends; be there for them when they want/need you, offer advice but don’t act butthurt if they don’t take it. 
13. You do not have all the answers.  Nobody does. So don’t act like you do. It shows. 
14. Don’t describe those you work with as ‘underprivileged’ or other demeaning  eurocentric words.  What you are doing is comparing your own life to theirs and assuming everyone wants the type of life you have. Go back to no. 6 & 7

(this also goes for working with kids, women’s groups, people with certain disabilites etc. whether in your own country or abroad.  Feel free to add more points that hasn’t been covered and reblog.  End the White Saviour Complex) 

vegtablez:

“You don’t come back in here until you’ve apologized to every person in this room, Because you just exercised a freedom that none of these people of color have. When these people of color get tired of racism, they can’t just walk out, because there’s no place in this country where they aren’t going to be exposed to racism. They can’t even stay in their own homes and not be exposed to racism if they turn on their television. But you, as a white female, when you get tired of being judged and treated unfairly on the basis of your eye color, you can walk out that door, and you know it won’t happen out there. You exercised a freedom they don’t have. If you’re going to be in here you’re going to apologize to every person of color in this room. And do it now.”

“I’m sorry there’s racism in this country—

“BULLSHIT! No, you’re not going to say ‘I’m sorry there’s racism.’ You’re going to apologize for what YOU just did.”

“I will not apologize because it’s not a matter of race always—”

“OUT.”

Jane Elliot is a champ.

talldarkbishoujo:

Do minority students get more than a fair share of college scholarships? That myth reared its head earlier this year after a Texas nonprofit, the Former Majority Association for Equality announced plans to give scholarships only to white males. The group claimed that white males are disadvantaged because they don’t “fit into certain categories or ethnic groups.” So Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.com, put that idea to the test, and found that white students actually “receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarships and merit-based grants.”

Kantrowitz crunched data (PDF) from both the 2003-04 and 2007-08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, which showed that white students are 40 percent more likely to win private scholarships than non-white students. And Kantrowitz finds several college-specific scholarships only for white students, like UCLA’s 66-year-old Werner Scott Scholarship, worth $4,000, which is “restricted to Caucasian students from Hawaii who are not of Polynesian blood.”

Even when a scholarship doesn’t explicitly note a racial preference, white students are still at an advantage since scholarship sponsors “select for characteristics, activities and talents of interest to them.” Black students, for example, are much less likely to participate in equestrian, water, and winter sports than their white peers, which makes them ineligible for scholarships related to those areas.

White students, even those who “have no demonstrated financial need,” are also at an advantage when it comes to receiving funding directly from universities. Kantrowitz found that they get more than 76 percent “of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent” less than 62 percent of the student population.

This is exactly what I was talking about in that “bootstraps” post I wrote a while back. I worked in FA, I know how the game is played.

(Source: downlo)

fyeahcap:

stfuracists:

I did not create this graphic, but I sure as hell agree with it, so I reblogged it. I’ve looked through a lot of the reblogs that followed, and of course, I’m happy that many came from me (the more attention for my blog, the better, right?). 

Besides my readers (and the batch of readers from STFU Conservatives) who got the point, there were also people who responded who totally missed the point. 

“Are you saying I’m racist because I don’t like Obama?”

I thought my addendum to the text covered that. There’s people who just don’t agree with his politics, and race has nothing to do with it for them.

But that’s not who the points in the graphic are talking about. Those aren’t the people who perpetuate the myths (well, maybe some of them would disagree with the part about the economy or “big government”).

Anyway… I don’t respond to every post that disagrees with something I’ve posted. It’d be a waste of my time to chase down every blog that disagrees with mine (I’m not even going to respond to all the blogs that personally attack me, since most of them are liars or willfully ignorant anyway). 

But I had to share this one…

[TW: racial epithet, ableist slur]

s00p3rn00b:

This is fucking retarded. If you honestly think the reason people hate Obama is because he’s black, then you must be a dumb nigger. I respect President Obama, despite the color of his skin, but he hasn’t done anything for this country.

Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but looking at this kid’s blog, he’s white, right? 

How do we feel about him using the “N” word? I’m sure I don’t like it.

if i didn’t have several white teens per day telling me that “racism is over, so get over cultural appropiation”, i might think that s00p3rn00b is a racist.

but luckily, some white people told me that racism is over and so i guess that’s not the case.