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Angela Davis said the words in the title and articles like this prove just how deep the Amnesia is.
When Do I Get To Stop Apologizing for Being White?
My white “privilege” has not exempted me from racism; it came crashing through my car window during the L.A. riots, carried on a brick to the tune of, “white fucking bitch”. My white “privilege” has not made me complacent to the catastrophic consequences of racial injustice. My white “privilege” is not a gift that I had asked for nor is it one that I feel the need to apologize for. Being white is one element of many that helped to form my character and I do not see it as a flaw that needs to be excused, prize that needs to be exalted, or a privilege to be responsible for. White privilege is a regional advantage that fades or disappears into a liability depending upon where in the world you are, based upon the filters that that communities residents share. I am aware how ideological this sounds, but race privilege is an illusion that is perpetuated by the filters that were formed by a community’s experience.
Just as I do not think it is equitable to ask men to apologize for their economic/social advantage or my Germans friends to apologize for the holocaust. I look forward to the day when I no longer have to apologize for being white.
goodmenproject.com
Whites who do not still practice racism have nothing to apologize for. Because they work to erase the damage caused by white racism. The problem comes from those who write articles like this. When will I have to stop facing white racism? When are whites on the right going to stop denying the current problem? When are whites on the right going to stop telling blacks who present evidence of the existing problem and what caused it that what they say is not so? When are right wing whites going to listen to blacks when we try explaining how we feel when we experience racism? When will right wing whites stop telling us how white racism is not the cause of our problems? When will whites on the right understand that the continuing racism practiced by the racist subculture in the white community has created a nation of angry people? When will whites on the right recognize that what they call racism in others is the response to the racism they have received from whites?
When will whites on the right admit he amount of finacial assistance whites have received from the government that blacks were denied? When are you guys on the right going to stop pretending that all the racism and its associated abuses ended when slavery ended? When do rght wing whites understand that if your ancestors didn't buy slaves from Africans there is no sale? When do you stop telling that lie about the first slaveowner being black? When do whites on the right understand that if you can recognize that events that happened in 1776 affect us today, that slavery affects us today? When do the excuses and false equivalences end? I can keep going. Because nobody is asking whites to apologize for being white. We are asking for the whites who practice racism to stop that and help end a system built on racism. I have to laugh here because for some odd reason whites on the right seem to think that asking people to stop being racists means that we are asking them to apologize for being white as if being racist is a requirement for being white.
This fake victimhood has got to stop.
When Do I Get To Stop Apologizing for Being White?
My white “privilege” has not exempted me from racism; it came crashing through my car window during the L.A. riots, carried on a brick to the tune of, “white fucking bitch”. My white “privilege” has not made me complacent to the catastrophic consequences of racial injustice. My white “privilege” is not a gift that I had asked for nor is it one that I feel the need to apologize for. Being white is one element of many that helped to form my character and I do not see it as a flaw that needs to be excused, prize that needs to be exalted, or a privilege to be responsible for. White privilege is a regional advantage that fades or disappears into a liability depending upon where in the world you are, based upon the filters that that communities residents share. I am aware how ideological this sounds, but race privilege is an illusion that is perpetuated by the filters that were formed by a community’s experience.
Just as I do not think it is equitable to ask men to apologize for their economic/social advantage or my Germans friends to apologize for the holocaust. I look forward to the day when I no longer have to apologize for being white.
When Do I Get To Stop Apologizing for Being White?
"It would be naïve of me to dismiss the claim that my whiteness affords me certain rights and privileges in American society. However, I do not feel the need to apologize for being white or feel the need to 'address the privilege of being white in a meaningful way.'"
goodmenproject.com
Whites who do not still practice racism have nothing to apologize for. Because they work to erase the damage caused by white racism. The problem comes from those who write articles like this. When will I have to stop facing white racism? When are whites on the right going to stop denying the current problem? When are whites on the right going to stop telling blacks who present evidence of the existing problem and what caused it that what they say is not so? When are right wing whites going to listen to blacks when we try explaining how we feel when we experience racism? When will right wing whites stop telling us how white racism is not the cause of our problems? When will whites on the right understand that the continuing racism practiced by the racist subculture in the white community has created a nation of angry people? When will whites on the right recognize that what they call racism in others is the response to the racism they have received from whites?
When will whites on the right admit he amount of finacial assistance whites have received from the government that blacks were denied? When are you guys on the right going to stop pretending that all the racism and its associated abuses ended when slavery ended? When do rght wing whites understand that if your ancestors didn't buy slaves from Africans there is no sale? When do you stop telling that lie about the first slaveowner being black? When do whites on the right understand that if you can recognize that events that happened in 1776 affect us today, that slavery affects us today? When do the excuses and false equivalences end? I can keep going. Because nobody is asking whites to apologize for being white. We are asking for the whites who practice racism to stop that and help end a system built on racism. I have to laugh here because for some odd reason whites on the right seem to think that asking people to stop being racists means that we are asking them to apologize for being white as if being racist is a requirement for being white.
This fake victimhood has got to stop.
~S~
