February 2012
It's occured to me.
sanaa-tamir:
That all this “get over it” and “gosh, it’s not personal” shit is connected. No one wants to believe they’re complicit in someone else’s pain… unless they’re an admitted douche, which is somewhat different and not what I’m referring to here. All this denial, all these excuses for why these folks are decent people and how very dare anyone imply that they’re not, is connected.
Folks...
for the non-believers of the white logic book
latinosexuality:
eduardo bonilla-silva and tukufu zuberi are REAL people, REAL men of Color in the sociology field. both identify as Black and eduardo bonilla-silva as a Black Puerto Rican.
think this book is made up. ok, but you can purchase it here and its been available since 2008:
amazon
indie books (for the independent bookstore near you)
an annotated bibliography
from the publisher
...
“Many White reproductive activists cannot relate to the experiences of Black...”
– A Forced Eugenics Survivor Speaks Her Truth
This is why the pro-life movement’s sudden concern for Black fetuses and it’s recent focus on the Black community is laughable, insulting, hypocritical, and downright racist.
(via squeetothegee)
After the Cult of The Fetus targeted me for sharing my...
“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets...”
– George Orwell (via aamir-javed)
occasionally pensive: why I say that most white... →
daniellemertina:
If a person does not understand racial oppression or more specifically, understand the ways in which white people are privileged in society (socially, institutionally, and etc.) they will more than likely act in a racist way towards a PoC. Even if it’s just something seemingly simple (like a lot…
“Everywhere in Latin America one finds a tremendous resentment of the United...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
still so very relevant today.
(via chicanainchoos)