the right to remain silent, not the obligation.: Attn: White Feminists
Here’s something that gets me: y’all white feminist motherfuckers will take any chance to shit on women of color and their types of womanhood and still want to be yelling about ‘transgressing gender performance’ all at the same time like you know something that’s up. Let me tell you that just…
Wow. You sound incredible racist to group all white people like that. Just because a few people did something you don’t like it doesn’t give you a right to hate or trash a race as a whole.
I’m sorry someone offended you or your work. It must be difficult but being racist is just as bad,First of all, if you read that whole post and all you got was “ooh racism against white people!!!” you seriously missed the point and have some things to examine. That concept is laughable anyway (god forbid this Black kid gets mad at the systems that oppress him, quelle horreur!) but even if it were true that I am ‘racist against White people’ this was not a post that said ooh white people suck. This was a post responding to two very real social and political institutions (Whiteness and Feminism) and their (lack of) engagement with one another. Like, White Feminists — who largely only identify as ‘Feminists’ because lol engagement with whiteness doesn’t even make it that far — purport to uphold women as a whole but routinely and intentionally ignore and subjugate women of color, especially Black women of color within that movement. There is distinct and serious appropriation of the struggle of Blackness to build the “Feminist” movement and no return to or support for Blackness or Black women inside it. That’s not a generalization, that’s a fact. Here is a photo version of my experience with this:
In case you’re unclear, that is me at SlutWalk NYC. Behind me is a White Feminist holding a sign that says “Woman is the Nigger of the World.” Furthermore, if you are a White person who claims Feminism but your way of enacting that feminism is to assign a role to a Black woman and then take credit for some imaginary progress that happened as a result of that role, you are not upholding womanhood. You are upholding White womanhood, and you are full of shit.
I would like you to explain to me how not allowing White people to continue to dictate the existences of Black women is racist? “It must be difficult” to what? To deal with people who, under the guise of liberation, still perpetuate the same harmful actions that have put Black women underneath society’s boot for, I don’t know, the duration of U.S. history? Or it must be difficult to know that no one wants to engage with the power they hold as White people and have disseminated this belief in the faux supremacy of Whiteness so effectively that even people of color are charging to the front lines to defend it? Or it must be difficult to realize that the only people looking out for Black women are Black women? You’re right, it’s very difficult.
I don’t purport to know your identity, but you appear to be a person of color and it scares me that out of all of that the only thing you had to say was “it must be difficult” and “I’m sorry someone offended you.” Seriously? Like, if you don’t understand my beef with White Feminists, fine. But if you really are all about “speaking out against hate and bullying” like your blog says and you’re jumping to defend one of the largest institutions of hatred and violence that exists in this country then maybe you want to rethink what your aims are? Also there are a lot of steps — 1. Google. 2. Ask? 3. Make an accurate and informed assessment of the situation? This post was not a trashing of white people. It was a real-time engagement with systems of power based off of real, lived experiences. And I’m a dude so it’s totally legitimate if you feel like my understanding of what is happening re: Black women is not useful for you, but there are a shit ton of Black women who have thoughts and experiences and feelings on this subject and who are also tired of being shit all over by the pervasiveness of Whiteness within the realm of feminism, so maybe check that out and learn something.
Finally, least importantly but still annoying no one offended *my* work — I am not a Black Woman? Which is very clear if you had taken a second to look at my blog before responding. Anyway, this isn’t about the work. It’s about Black Women.
I’m sorry. I really don’t have the time to give your post the proper attention. And I apologize for the briefness. But Yeah. I assume you are racist because your post is attn: White feminist. Like you are singling them out because of their skin color. Not because of their mistreatment of you. Not because you feel like the are oppressing you but because of their skin color. You think white people are the cause of all your issues in the world and that they wanna keep you down. Fine. Even though that is extremely inaccurate that is fine.
I’m really not sure what you are talking about. I’ve never heard of in all my years of University and Grad school the Institution of Blackness or Whiteness but I’m an engineer so meh.
But I don’t see white people as oppressive. Not at all and I don’t really see them going around assigning people roles.
I mean I might just live in a better place but I’ve never heard of white people going around to black people or anyother kind of people telling them what to do or how to live.
My blog is about bullying,hatred, mistreatment, unfairness etc
And you singling out people because of their skin color is ehh. Kinda racist.
You should single people out because of what they do. Not what they look like. I don’t think the mistreatment you are talking about would even have to do with the fact that peopleare white.
Why is white even in this.
What does skin color have to do with it at all.
Please enlighten me. I’m horrifically confused.
Okay if you don’t have time to engage with a post fully, then don’t, yeah? Like, I gave you a lot of places to start so that you can deal with your confusion and educate yourself and you’re willfully admitting that you’re not going to take the time to investigate for yourself but you want me to still teach you?
I don’t care if you have never seen it, though I am interested in what mystical world you live in where you have never seen white people act in an oppressive manner. I flat out do not believe that you can engage with the concept of racism and claim that you have never heard of white people being racist. I have seen it. Poc have seen it. I just gave you a photograph of it. It definitely exists so~
Also again, this is not a post about white people sucking? I don’t think white people are the root of all of my problems. I don’t even think all white people are racist. I’m saying that the people occupying the intersection of whiteness and feminism are doing so in a way that overwhelmingly oppresses and damages Black women. I really don’t know how much more clearly I can say that than I already did. I’m saying that the privilege associated with their skin color and the fact that they are unwilling to examine that and deal with it is oppressive.
And your university and grad school background doesn’t interest me? I am a graduate as well, and I’m sure that there are plenty of things I didn’t hear about while I was there but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist? There are probably a lot of people in school right now who have never heard of common variable immunodeficiency but it’s still a thing.
I’m done engaging with you — it is clear that you will make of this what you will and if that includes considering me racist, then cool. I’m totally sold on that idea.
A “must have” accessory
love you babe
hard femme forever
can we talk about the fact that the blade and this person’s lips match? i’m dying, oh my god.
Harlem Reacts To “Harlem Shake” Videos
YES
And this is what i been saying about the Harlem shake song and meme with it.
Disrespect
another white dude capitalizing off POC art/lifestyles
same white supremacy crap.
Then shunning a WOC NYC rapper off the beat
lol okayyyyyyy
TELL ‘EM
so fucking relevant
Okay…
There is no way he believes this?
Nobody could possibly believe this…?
Prove me wrong. Do it.
i was not created by a white man.
Unless you were conceived in a bathtub full of kool-aid or something, modern day conception procedures come from Europe.
This is probably the most racist comment I’ve seen in a very long time
Firstly, I’m with the person right above me. That’s an incredibly racist comment. I would say you should be ashamed, but I know you won’t listen.
Now on to proving you wrong.
- Chocolate chip cookies were invented by Ruth Wakefield (x).
- Liquid paper was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham (x).
- The square-bottomed paper bag was invented by Margaret Knight (x).
- The dishwasher was invented by Josephine Cochrane (x).
- The windshield wiper was invented by Mary Anderson (x).
- Kevlar was invented by Stephanie Kwolek (x).
- Potato chips were invented by George Crum (x).
- The carbon-filament lightbulb, which was actually more practical than Edison’s paper-filament bulb, was invented by Lewis Latimer (x).
- The blood bank was invented by Charles Richard Drew (x).
- The protective mailbox, the precursor to today’s public mail boxes, was invented by Philip B. Downing (x).
- The gas mask was invented by Garrett Morgan (x).
- The birth control pill was invented by Luis Miramontes and two other scientists (x).
- The magnetic compass, porcelain, gunpowder, the mechanical clock, and paper money were all invented by the Chinese (x).
- The condom, high heels, paper, and the pen were all invented by the Egyptians (x).
There. Done.
Oh, and re: “modern day conception procedures,” I believe the word you’re so clumsily dancing around is “sex.” (Don’t worry, typing it won’t hurt you.) I have to burst your bubble on that one, too. The first humanoid beings were Australopithecus, and they lived in Africa (x). (The map’s down a bit on the page.)
I think I’ve thoroughly proven you wrong enough by now. I’m going to get some sleep. Laterz.
YOU ARE MY HERO.^^^
LET ME BARE YOUR CHILDREN
BUT WAIT KIDS THERE MORE:
- The traffic light
- Peanut butter
- Open heart surgery
- Homo sapiens
- The light switch
- The real McCoy engine
- Spoken word poetry
- Rock n Roll
- Hell pretty much every genre of American music since we got to this bitch
And that’s just the top of my head. TAKE IT AWAY NEXT REBLOGGER:
Agriculture. Writing. The fucking wheel. Fucking civilization.
The domesticated chicken in the sandwich I’m eating. The tea I’m drinking.
The concept of “zero”, as in the OP is a total fucking zero.
Ooh ooh!
Apples. Bred from a wild ancestor fruit in central Asia.
Bread. Also Egypt.
Beer and wine. Near East/Egyptian inventions.
Distilled alcohol. Arabs.
The triangular sail, which revolutionized navigation: also Arabs.
Beekeeping and therefore cultivated honey. Also Egypt.
Pet cats and dogs, meticulously domesticated in the Near East and Asia respectively. Also domestic cattle, Africa and South Asia.
Computer programming. Ada Lovelace.
Spread-spectrum and frequency-hopping communication technology, which is to say, the wifi my computer is using right now. Hedy Lamarr.
The novel. Japan! Unless you count Apuleius’ Metamorphoses/”The Golden Ass,” in which case, Africa.
Randomized controlled trial, completely essential to the basis of modern medicine: Ibn Sina.
Edible corn, potatoes, and nightshades, which form the bulk of at least most Americans’ diets: the brilliant breeding, cultivation, and agricultural experimentation practices of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations respectively.
Indoor plumbing. India.
Lenses. Assyria.
The written word. Oh, that’s right: Phoenicia, Africa, and, independently, China and Mesoamerica. Yes, yes, we know: runes and ogham. Very impressive, Norse and Irish, nicely done, welcome to the show.
Oh, and the printed word. China again.
Really, astronomy, chemistry, geography, physics, optics, botany, and surgery as we know them.
Oh—and that bathtub you want to fill with Kool-Aid. Brown folks invented that, too.
Oh, hell, do some homework:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_inventors_and_scientists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_scientists,_inventors,_and_scholars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Puerto_Rican_scientists_and_inventors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_contributions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_in_medieval_Islam
Go do some Googling like a grownup.
haha. white people have never invented anything, they steal everything they can from POC and take the credit
I don’t know if these were mentioned and I’m missing them, but the people of Mesopotamia (according to google where modern Iraq is) were the first known people to use irrigation.
Also Ancient China in addition to a shitton of the awesome things above invented noodles/pasta, for which I am eternally grateful as it is the basis for a lot of Italian cuisine, food of my culture.China also had the first automated clocks, I don’t know if that was mentioned.
You can also just do your own research at websites like these: http://www.black-inventor.com/Lonnie-G-Johnson.asp
There’s also this really informative series of posts that have been going around tumblr: http://hamburgerjack.tumblr.com/post/43237040943/pipercarter-black-history-month-fact-15-711
There’s also chocolate, one of the most awesome foods ever, it’s initial form was invented by Mesoamericans and actually used in their rituals before white people came and appropriated that up as a fancy people drink.
So, basically OP, we as white people owe essentially all the awesome shit around us to people of color.
In other words, the folks above are correct. far as I can tell the only thing we’ve invented was stealing other people’s shit and taking credit for it while making out that the creator of said good shit should be thankful to us for inventing this cool thing. We’ve also been pretty great at perpetuating systems of oppression based on this model.
But let’s be honest, we probably didn’t even invent stealing shit and taking the credit.
So yeah, you’re probably a troll at least I hope you are because that was straight up absurdly wrong. But in case you aren’t, I just wanted to contribute some inventions I didn’t see mentioned.Arabs invented coffee, the pinhole camera, cheques, fucking physics, man.
My forever favourite is soap. Your white ass did not know how to BATHE until we showed you soap. You sat in yr own filth and thought water would KILL YOU.
And didn’t an African tribe invent the concept of toothpaste or something?
That and considering the amount of korean and japanese dolls I have around me. >.>
See, even IF something I have around me is invented by a white man most of it has been used/perfected even more by a NON white person.the only thing surrounding me that was invented solely by white men is patriarchy
I wonder if OP feels ashamed yet
Glass, out of which the cup next to me is made of, was invented by the Mesopotamians.
And cuneiform, the writing system from which the Roman alphabet surrounding me ultimately derives, was also invented by Mesopotamians.
And the language I am speaking and in which everything around me is written derives ultimately from Proto-Indo-European which was likely also spoken by PoC in the Pontic Steppe region thousands of years ago. These people were likely to be brown-skinned.
And textiles, by which i am also surrounded, the oldest of which we know from Anatolia in the middle east in 6000 BC.
No one invented the cat, but they are native to Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, so the first humans to domesticate the cat came from that region.
I am also surrounded by paper. Paper was invented by the 2nd century BC in China.
The earliest historical reference to magnification comes from ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs in 5th century bc. It is thanks to the Egyptian invention of meniscal lenses that glasses exist.
The pen derives from the reed stylus used by the ancient Egyptians.
It is thanks to the invasion of Europe by the Huns that the Slavic ethnicity emerged in the 4th-5th century and spread throughout the 6th. Without the intervention of the Huns I would not exist.
man there are a few things I reblog multiple times and this is one of them
when i was working in Harlem at a charter school as a health educator & found out the white english teachers were having the 100% Black & Latin@ youth write journal entries as if they were slaves. i told one of my students “this is going to be the shortest journal entry of your life. write ‘today i’m running away.’”
guess what charter school this is w/a poverty pimp as the CEO!
other things I care about in this video — this is a Black man with an Alabama accent
this is important to me because beside the fact that everyone has this idea that all Black people speak a specific way, I get asked what Southern Blacks sound like all the time. There are a multitude of Southern accents, yes, and most people can understand that concept when applied to White people, but for some reason as soon as you’re talking about a Black person no one has any idea what that sounds like. If it’s not all “yes massa” and “missuz” no one believes you are Black and Southern.
(Source: shavingryansprivates)
