Posts tagged privilege.
An introspective note on ally-ship and privilege
It’s dawning on me that as an APIA advocate within the immigrants rights movement and as someone who is bilingual in Spanish, that I need to put my language skills to use in reminding other advocates, supporters and members of the community that immigration is not an issue that can be talked about in its entirety while excluding a significant portion of the community that is often marginalized. I need to be more assertive in saying “la communidad indocumentada no es solamente Latino y tenemos que recordar los que no hablen español y hacer un espacio inclusivo para asiaticos, africanos, y los otros que estan en un situacion similar…”
this is quite a good example of well-meaning but annoying privilege
^^^^
Word. also, I think i have a new gif pairing to use in response to a lot of things…
![daniellemertina:
BAM. Just like that.
because it really is just like that. those statements reflect a privilege-influenced ignorance [and, in my experience, usually come from white would-be ‘allies’]. and that’s where that privilege check comes in necessary.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwdk1rY0hB1qjaecro1_500.jpg)
BAM. Just like that.
because it really is just like that. those statements reflect a privilege-influenced ignorance [and, in my experience, usually come from white would-be ‘allies’]. and that’s where that privilege check comes in necessary.
(via stfuconservatives)
That’s not necessarily true , I think society would still find a way to separate themselves into groups.“If everyone in the world married someone of a different race, after one generation, there would be no prejudice.”
Love it.
ummm they have no clue how genes work then. see dominican republic and brazil for great examples as to why that DOESNT bring racial equality. kids will still be born looking black, white, asian and inbetween. you will still be able to form a hierarchy by color according to who is born how. interracial offspring dont trump a general mindset that values certain people over others.
people who say shit like this clearly come from some segregated ass fucking societies and have not ever bothered to inquire about the rest of the world.
^(Bolded above for truth and importance)! That generation would still be in a system that is rigged towards privilege. Privilege and prejudice are more adaptive than simple statements make them seem. There is nothing in that fantasyland that would ensure anything other than slight shifts in who is considered at the top of the privilege pile.
(via bad-dominicana)
But being anti-racist in this place—that is, in Woodruff Park, in Atlanta, in Georgia, in the South—is not mainly about getting more people of color to pitch a tent and sleep out there. Truth be told, I’m kind of OK with having mostly white people sleeping out there, because when the junta that runs downtown Atlanta decides it has had enough and people get carted off to jail, there’s no need to have more black or brown people in the Atlanta City Detention Center.
Being anti-racist is, if you are going to set up camp and take Five Points as your center point, acknowledging that the corporate forces at play around there are totally about race. This is true currently, and it is true historically—no surprise. When Occupy Wall Street declared, “We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments,” that was old news here, friends. The plantation owners have always run Georgia’s government.
-Kung Li in A History of Georgia’s 1%:Why You Must Face Race to Occupy Atlanta
Welcome to the South.
Your Protest Is Getting In The Way Of My Privilege!
-Joe
I’m going to have so much fun editing this caption… #comingsoon…
I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s actually homophobia. I don’t expect poor people to prove to me, a Harvard grad, that hunger and poverty are widespread problems. And if someone asked me, as an Asian person, to “prove” to them that racism exists, I would laugh all the way back to Chinatown. Marginalized groups are not responsible for explaining their marginalization to you. If you are actually concerned, you would take the initiative to do some research yourself instead of showing up at some oppressed group’s door step demanding a list of citations for things (racism, sexism, etc.) that are proven time and time again in the real world.
WORD (via notevenbovvered)
oh hell yeah.
(via randomberlinchick)
Amen!
(via liquidinterpretations)
So much ^^THIS <3
(via kemee)
Race seems permanent because we fail to remember that its perpetrators enjoy it and that masking their enjoyment only enhances it. Seducing one’s victim into an after-the-fact complicity, making one’s victims ‘remember perfectly,’ is not simply a masking technique, it is the central pleasure of race.
Anthony Farley (1997) ‘The Black Body as Fetish Object.’ Oregon Law Review. p. 469-70.
This always comes to mind when white people ‘can’t see’ racism.
(via james-bliss)
(via fascinasians)
What the fuck is with this week? The privilege party has been on raging display all week- and I’m tired of it. Dear privilege, please check yourself!
Still lmao since last night….
And I can understand that you, white male, might find yourself in a place where you feel like what you’re writing about/reporting on/experiencing is really effing important, and the world needs to catapult the propaganda or whatever and you’re afraid that your white-maleness might disqualify you somehow from having a very important viewpoint on the subject at hand (though in my experience, white males are always considered the ultimate expert on any subject you can care to name) and so you’re tempted to take some liberties.
Don’t. Don’t do it. For example, do not become a half-Syrian, half-American lesbian blogger reporting on the crackdown on the Arab Spring protesters.
- Brian Spears, A Note To My Fellow White Males
This post really is a must read in it’s entirety. #privilegecheck
