Racial Fetishizing Is Not Flattering

Ultimately, these attitudes cause a real problem for women of color. How are we to know whether someone is flirting with us because they have a genuine interest in us as people or because of their completely unfounded imaginary picture of minority women? Of course, there are plenty of men who fall into the former category, but the history of colonization makes it that much harder for women of color to pick them out. We are not exotic beings from another species; we are all human and all different. These racial stereotypes make us into interchangeable, replaceable objects with no personal desires.

Submitted by Marcus G.

Bolding mine. Shoutout to my old “friend” who told me I had jungle fever and said he wanted some “tight, Asian, pussy.”

….?

I am so embarrassed to be a white feminist right now.

tahlalaliaaa:

Come on people, we all mess up, but I’m pretty sure you were all taught that the n word is never okay when you were itty bitty children with no concept of privilege.

Not to mention that listening to POC and not teling them how they should feel about something is pretty much the very foundation of being an ally.

Many fellow white activists are failing miserably on the basics of ~not being a racist~ and it’s fucking ridiculous.

dumbthingswhitepplsay: quelola: [Image Description: A photo of me holding up a piece of paper and with a “bitch please” smirk on my face.] Text on paper: I’m a brown, queer, person with a disability, fat, happy on most days first generation college student (with 20,000+ in debt). I have faced barriers, obstacles, stares, negative b.s., being poor, being broke (because there is a difference) [Forgot to add: for my entire life]. I am not your 99%. I am not the 1%. I’m not even included! (Unless I force myself. But why should I have to?) More of these, please.
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dumbthingswhitepplsay:

quelola:

[Image Description: A photo of me holding up a piece of paper and with a “bitch please” smirk on my face.]

Text on paper:

I’m a brown, queer, person with a disability, fat, happy on most days first generation college student (with 20,000+ in debt). I have faced barriers, obstacles, stares, negative b.s., being poor, being broke (because there is a difference) [Forgot to add: for my entire life].

I am not your 99%.

I am not the 1%.

I’m not even included! (Unless I force myself. But why should I have to?)

More of these, please.

(via crackerhell)

Source: quelola

Whiteness is the center that goes unnamed and unstudied, which is one way that keeps us as white folks centered, normal, that which everything else is compared to—like the way we name race only when we’re talking about a person of color. We can name how some acts hurt people of color, but it’s harder to talk about how they privilege white folks.
Scott Winn, via Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race (via seriouslyamerica)

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