Jan
29
“For most black people, oppression is the default, so when you, as a white person, gripe about how you’ve been victimized by black people, you’re conveniently glossing over the fact that you still have more options and privileges in our society than they do, and your moaning about how they get “preferential treatment” you don’t qualify for is only the ridiculous cherry on top of the whiner-sundae. Those scholarships and grants exist to help rectify social ills that are centuries old and combat negative social trends that still have widespread effects today, so it comes off as disingenuous for you to complain about the special treatment black people enjoy when being a white man is inherently tantamount to qualifying for special treatment on many levels of society and smacks of the same sort of “be grateful for the scraps off our table” rhetoric a lot of white politicians clung to after the Civil Rights Act passed, essentially arguing that once black people were granted ostensibly equal rights, they were retroactively responsible for the socio-economic status Jim Crowe had left them in, an argument used even to this day to justify cutting social aid programs, to evict and demolish housing projects, and to keep public transportation out of “low income” (cheat sheet: that’s political and police code for “black”) neighborhoods.”
My friend Jason, again. I love this white man. I really do. xD (via thegoddamazon)
(via mytongueisforked)
