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From
TIME - I need some of you to cut it the hell out. Maybe, for some of you, it’s a presumed mutual appreciation for Beyoncé and weaves that has you thinking that I’m going to be amused by you approaching me in your best “Shanequa from around the way” voice. I don’t know. What I do know is that I don’t care how well you can quote Madea, who told you that your booty was getting bigger than hers, how cute you think it is to call yourself a strong black woman, who taught you to twerk, how funny you think it is to call yourself Quita or Keisha or for which black male you’ve been bottoming — you are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood. It is not yours. It is not for you.
Black people can’t have anything. Any of these things include, but aren’t limited to: a general sense of physical safety, comfort with law enforcement, adequate funding and appreciation for black spaces like schools and neighborhoods, appropriate venues for our voices to be heard about criticism of issues without our race going on trial because of it, and solid voting rights (cc: Chris McDaniel).
And then, when you thought this pillaging couldn’t get any worse, extracurricular black activities get snatched up, too: our music, our dances, our slang, our clothing, our hairstyles. All of these things are rounded up, whitewashed and repackaged for your consumption. But here’s the shade — the non-black people who get to enjoy all of the fun things about blackness will never have to experience the ugliness of the black experience, systemic racism and the dangers of simply living while black. Though I suppose there’s some thrill in this “rolling with the homies” philosophy some adopt, white people are not racially oppressed in the United States of America.
White people are not racially oppressed in the United States of America.
White people are not racially oppressed in the United States of America.
Nothing about whiteness will get a white person in trouble the way blackness can get a black person shot down in his tracks. These are just facts. It’s not entirely the fault of white people. It’s not as if you can help being born white in America, any more than I can help being born black in America.
The truth is that America is a country that operates on systems of racism in which we all participate, whether consciously or unconsciously, to our benefit or to our detriment, and that system allows white people to succeed. This system also creates barriers so that minorities, such as black people, have a much harder time being able to do things like vote and get houses and not have to deal with racists and stuff. You know. Casual.
But while you’re gasping at the heat and the steam of the strong truth tea I just spilled,what’s even worse about all of this, if you thought things could get even crappier, is the fact that all of this is exponentially worse for black women. A culture of racism is bad enough, but pairing it with patriarchal structures that intend to undermine women’s advancement is like double-fisting bleach and acid rain.
At the end of the day, if you are a white male, gay or not, you retain so much privilege. What is extremely unfairly denied you because of your sexuality could float back to you, if no one knew that you preferred the romantic and sexual company of men over women. (You know what I’m talking about. Those “anonymous” torsos on Grindr, Jack’d and Adam4Adam, show very familiar heterosexual faces to the public.) The difference is that the black women with whom you think you align so well, whose language you use and stereotypical mannerisms you adopt, cannot hide their blackness and womanhood to protect themselves the way that you can hide your homosexuality. We have no place to hide, or means to do it even if we desired them.
In all of the ways that your gender and race give you so much, in those exact same ways, our gender and race work against our prosperity. To claim that you’re a minority woman just for the sake of laughs, and to say that the things allowed her or the things enjoyed by her are done better by you isn’t cute or funny. First of all, it’s aggravating as hell. Second, it’s damaging and perpetuating of yet another set of aggressions against us.
All of this being said, you should not have to stop liking the things you like. This is not an attempt to try to suck the fun out of your life. Appreciating a culture and appropriating one are very, very different things, with a much thicker line than some people think, if you use all of the three seconds it takes to be considerate before you open your mouth. If you love some of the same things that some black women love, by all means, you and your black girlfriends go ahead and rock the hell out. Regardless of what our privileges and lack of privileges are, regardless of the laws and rhetoric that have attempted to divide us, we are equal, even though we aren’t the same, and that is okay. Claiming our identity for what’s sweet without ever having to taste its sour is not. Breathing fire behind ugly stereotypes that reduce black females to loud caricatures for you to emulate isn’t, either.
So, you aren’t a strong black woman, or a ghetto girl, or any of that other foolery that some of you with trash Vine accounts try to be. It’s okay. You don’t have to be. No one asked you to be. You weren’t ever meant to be. What you can be, however, is part of the solution.
Check your privilege. Try to strengthen the people around you.
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I was
seriously going to take the night off - there has been a lot of
shit that has pissed me off this week with the usual finger
pointing by King Pimple of a Man and his pathetic inaction on the
infestation of our borders by the southern roaches.
I do
need time to decompress.
But I
stumbled across this controversy when reading the news on CNN's
website, and I could not pass up offering a sane perspective on the
issue of race and homosexuality.
I'm
not sure where this black bitch thinks that white gay men have a
mutual appreciation for Beyonce. She's a slut, a
whore, and impersonates a female cat in heat in her music videos.
We
have standards as gay white men.
We
love Liza Minnelli and Cher. Some of us loved Whitney
Houston. There are those who like Babs (she makes me
hurl). And some of us like Wanda Sykes (I do shower
afterwards).
But
Beyonce? Oh, please!
As a
white gay man, I don't know who the fuck Madea is.
Sounds like a venereal disease. I don't know any
Quita's and all Keisha's I've known make me wanna hurl.
And I
don't bottom for anyone - black or white.
The
problem with today's black population (in general and I only bring
this up since you fired the first shot in the race war) is that
you still have a chip on your shoulder. You've
got your black (well half) President who has given you 11
percent unemployment, added $7 trillion to the national debt,
played lipservice to your causes while he gives special treatment
to illegal hispanic roaches. You always think that
there is a white person stealing your stuff and you then wonder
why some of us cross the street when we see young black male thugs
coming at us. Interestingly even Jesse Jackson
of the Monochrome Coalition says he'd do the same thing.
As for
Chris McDaniel and Mississippi, you need to get your facts right -
bitch. The law states that if you voted in the
Democrat primary, you can't vote in the Republican
one. If you are so fucking stupid that you don't
understand that, your problem is one of your own making, not some
white person's.
I hate
crap music - the music of the stupid - the beat makes me want to
commit murder - the lyrics talk about making you women bitches and
hoes and it advocates killing police officers. And you
whine about being targeted. Go fuck yourself.
I am
tired of being blamed as a white person for your chip on your
shoulder. I've never owned a black slave or any slave
of any kind - my ancestors died for your freedom in the Civil War
- bitch.
And,
yes, I have been racially profiled in an attempt to get a local
government job out of college - I wasn't female or
black. Fat chance for getting that job.
I
suppose you also don't understand being a self-righteous black
cunt that black men are the only group of straight men that have
ever threatened me with physical injury for being a
faggot. And I was held up at gun point by
another. So don't lecture me on the racial
innocence of the black culture. We can all pull out a story
of being wronged by someone not of our pigmentation.
But you went there, bitch.
Did
you know, bitch, that I've had three black boyfriends and each of
these dispelled the myth that black men are hung. Some
are. But its all marketing.
When a
black person whines about how unfair their life is in the United
States I laugh - do you have the intelligence to look to see how
things are like in contemporary Africa? Do you
seriously think your life is a sham here compared to
there? The problem is that you have a chip on
your shoulder and are so unwilling to accept that attitude is half
the problem to why you are treated like you feel you
are. And then there are your black straight men
who cum and go and impregnate you and leave the taxpayers to take
care of your irresponsible reproductive choices.
And yes I know there are more white people on welfare -and there
are more white people. Period. You
can play the victim all you want - the problem is that we white
gay men are tired of this shit. You act like your
people are the only ones that get lynched, beat up, set on fire,
fired from jobs, not hired, or have sob stories to wear on our
sleeves (when we wear them). Most
of us are so tired of your incessant blaming everyone but
yourselves for your failures. I love all people
(except some leftists)- I'd suck a black dick just as easily as an
asian or hispanic. I'd hug a Canadian and make love to
him. I personally don't blame black women for turning
black men gay with their incessant whining and wanting to be
treated like queens. And goodness knows you black
women need to learn how to suck dick. Cut your claws
and make love to the peen. We white men haven't
learned sexual jack shit from black women. I
can say that your rant has taken my breath away - this snippy
racist bigotry needs to stop - you prove that racism does not just
reside with rednecks with the confederate flag in the back window
or in white trailer trash parks. You prove that
we have a significant portion of black jackasses who need to grow
the fuck up and who need to check their victimhood at the door and
pull their stupid black asses off the floor and to stop blaming
the people around them for falling there in the first place. The
fact remains that in the United States, or until this
Administration has stolen all our rights, that we only have
ourselves to blame for our failures. The rich
don't sneak into poor people's homes and steal your quarters,
remove your $1k rims off your $250 car, or make you buy those
tight ass polyester pants that show your cottage cheese texture of
your thighs. I
know that I grew up in a time when I have heard the N word more
than I care to remember. But I have also been called a
faggot, a queer, and a fairy - and you know what,
bitch? Those words have come out of the racially pure
black person's mouth just as readily as some redneck.
So don't lecture me on how divine your black ass is as if being
black makes you so all damned righteous and exempt from having
your bigotry smashed back in your face. I swing a mean
purse, and that Bible in there is so preciously color blind. We
don't need to get along. We need to accept our own
personal failures and turn inward to find the
solutions. We need to stand on our own two feet and
learn to network - we need to learn to shun the bigots and to
harvest cooperation - we need to understand that all men and women
were truly created equal and it is time to end everything that
makes race an issue. No more handouts - no more
excuses - no more college set asides - no more United Negro
College fund or Black Caucus. And we can all agree to
set those in white sheets on fire.
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