Also, I'm 1/4 Hispanic (grandmother was 100% Hispanic) and I would NEVER claim to understand what racism feels like. My genetics don't mean crap. What matters is how I look, how people perceive me, and I look white. End of story. Just because my grandmother was brown and experienced racism doesn't mean those experiences somehow passed down through her DNA. It's pretty gross to claim you have any idea what discrimination by race feels like just because an ancestor wasn't white.
In a sea of idiocy... a light shines through.
The ROOT of everyones problem with the poster who is a thorn in the side of this forum is the INABILITY to have empathy for others. We've ALL made mistakes (including me) of speaking about issues that are not IN OUR LANE. but she does it again and again and again...
Pregnant people are gross and fat and ew kids are stupid
I'm 1/14th cherokee so I totally know what racism is like
and no I don't even just mean the "I was the only white kid in my class and everyone made fun of me/called me cracker.." racism. I MEAN REAL INSTITUTIONALIZED GO TO PRISON AND GET HARSHER SENTENCES POLICE VIOLENCE STOP AND FRISK DONT GET THE JOB JUST BECAUSE GET PAID LESS ETC ETC ETC REAL CONSEQUENCES
You are white.
People treat you as such.
I am brown.
It's not about me talking about my sparkling lineage, it isn't about percentages, it's about face value. You would have to TELL PEOPLE you are 50 shades of white before they would assume anything else.
Now, this doesn't mean I get the monopoly on racist issues or anything. I am still
DRIPPING with privilege
1) I'm brown, the kind of brown that goes accepted by most or at least accepted as hispanic. Call it tan, call it cafe con leche, call it whatever but I don't experience the same racial consequences as darker skinned people
2) My hair is soft and has loose european curls
3) I'm college educated
4) my parents were both college educated
5) I've lived in cities, in nice neighborhoods, where racial issues are not the same as they are in other areas of the south especially
but please do not talk to me like you understand every micro aggression and "go back to where you came from" and "Do you speak english?" and "Are you the first in your family to go to college?", "Your people caused 9/11" oh look another police officer shot an unarmed black kid and people are basically throwing the officer a parade of donations and support... just because of a percentage.
You can feel your culture and do whatever you want with it, it's your experience. But don't act like you know how it feels to wear that on your skin and be judged for it because you don't.
ALSO. I have NO PROBLEM with patriotism, I do with indoctrination and FORCING children to chant things they don't even understand.
I want real free speech and I want it to be a human right to have health care and food and water and good schools and I'm ok with paying more for those things and I just don't want any more of this USA USA USA AMAZING NUMBER ONE JUST BECAUSE mentality in my life anymore. We are not number one in anything except war and prison and I want more because we are capable of SO MUCH MORE
Nobody take all the YOUS in this post personally.
I am frustrated and tired and annoyed, it isn't really aimed at anyone all together. Even not DD.
I should just delete it all because it never changes anything but felt good to vent and that's what this thread is for so **** it
