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Toward Perpetual Peace of Mind
[Politics, Culture, Blackness]
#32
White privilege is when Trayvon Martin’s murder didn’t make you fear for you life and the life of your loved ones.
you want reverse racism?
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lemme shove you out all the positions of power
deny you access to all your basic needs
quarter, skin, hang, burn, villify and enslave you
en masse
degrade every last physical trait and your existence
and take credit for anything youve ever done well
for several hundreds years at that
and then
we can talk about how
“reverse racist” i am
(via seloftheearth)
boy…
MAN.
Here I want to delve into what I’m calling hipster anti-racism. It’s a term I’m using to describe those moments when (usually) white folks perform anti-racist/liberatory attitudes about a racialized issue in an attempt to appear subversive and often “hip.”
Unlike hipster racism, it is not a performance of ironic racism but actually a performance of anti-racist attitude as a signifier of hipness. It is important to understand that hipster anti-racism can be performed by anyone, not just those we characteristically label as hipsters. Hipster anti-racism is defined by by being 1) insincere, 2) momentary, 3) subversive for the sake of being hip and not for a deeper dismantling of systems of power and oppression, and 4) present in rhetoric almost exclusively, with little indication of substantive shifts towards anti-racist behavior or action.
In other words, hipster anti-racism, like much of hipsterdom, is defined by its appropriation and lack of historicity. In this case, it is an anti-racism that is not making an effort to link itself into broader histories and communities of anti-racist struggle. Note that I don’t think every instance of momentary engagement with race and racialization is an instance of hipster anti-racism. Those moments, could, after all, signify the beginnings of an awakening to ideas of privilege/power and anti-racism. It is only when someone’s anti-racism is only and continually displayed through those momentary engagements (rather than a deeper and more actionable shift in consciousness) that I think it wanders into the category of hipster anti-racism. I’m not saying we all have to (or can) become full-time anti-racist activists, but I am saying that if you’re going to talk about racism all the time, your actions had better align a little better with your rhetoric.
"Audre Lorde, Poetry Is Not A Luxury (via sinidentidades)
gawd damn that’s deep. folks mus-appropriating Lorde can make you forget sometimes just how dope she really was though.
(via withrevolutionarycries)
(via black-culture)
—judge mathis, speaking the truth (via thatprettyoddfeminist)
facts on facts on facts
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(via ronronnement)
Sick and Tired by Shihan.
agreed.
Does that put it into perspective for you?
Seriously. I always have to try to put this into perspective for people. People act like slavery was so distant. My mom is older in relation to my age (she had me at 43), and her father was older when she was born (in his early 50’s) and was born in the late 1800’s. One of his PARENTS was born into slavery. For people like my mom, this isn’t the least bit distant. My mom grew up in the Jim Crow south. History is so depersonalized that people can act like slavery, Jim Crow, and blatantly racist institutions existed in 1800 BC
(via seriouslyamerica)
(Source: reconnect-restore-rewild, via ladyatheist)
