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Martha Crawford
shrinkthinks
I just hope my fellow white women will somehow learn that if we try to assert our screechy privilege and weaponize our tears against black and brown people- that the
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sinéad
imkuuhkirih
...you can tell by looking, bc if people are coded as white they’re allowed to navigate the world more safely? as a white native, i see where you’re going with
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Monjula Ray (she/her)
queerBengali
Some days whiteness crushes my spirit. There’s all this praise for the gop convention when these ppl put brown kids in cages and killed 177k of us through negligence. A
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John Elrod II
LOTNorm
White liberalism has created a cottage industry around black trauma that benefits more from letting systemic racism happen and commodifying the reaction to it than it does from actually doing
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Bachata in the mosh pit
brujacontumbao
Anyways white Irish people today justifying Irish participation in slavery and the colonization of North America and the Caribbean bc “They were immigrants!” is exactly why people say we have
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Kenan Malik
kenanmalik
A lot of shock being expressed at the Museum of African American History & Culture describing objectivity, rationality, the work ethic, as ‘white cultural’ traits. Unfortunately, nothing unusual about it.
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James Lindsay, man of internet swagger
ConceptualJames
Wokeness comes at you fast.Last week: Antiracism that includes asking people of color about racism is exploitation, racist, wrong.This week: Antiracism that doesn't include that is colonized and has a
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Samantha Pritchard
thucydiplease
What’s amazing about this is that so many white people are essentially willing to accept some percentage of white people—even white children—as the necessary collateral damage to maintain a white
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jenn m. jackson
JennMJacksonPhD
I know "allies" aren't real because Black women fight for everyone else and we've never had a special title for it. "Allyship" is only a thing when white people want
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mi🌿
helloalegria
I honestly think the one drop rule is more harm than good but I’m not about to tell people who to be. it’s important to note, however, that colorism flourishes
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Eric Atcheson, champion of preaching and naps
RevEricAtcheson
This is vital for us Armenian Americans to remember. Our whiteness may be situational and conditional, but it absolutely was first bestowed on us as an act of anti-Black racism.We
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Scott Bayer is co-founder of #THEBOOKCHAT
Lyricalswordz
I know that COVID-19 has a lot of us thinking about systems, and the ways they are oppressing and failing so many people in this country. I’ve been thinking how
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Rabbit Cohen
BathysphereHat
Look, being stereotyped because you’re white can hurt. But it’s not the same as actual racism against people who have to deal with institutional oppression every day of their lives.
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Sophie Hughes
hughes_sophie
'a whiteness of translators'? I know, the swans got there first...I wonder how many of us feel this indisputable whiteness needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency so
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LL McKinney
ElleOnWords
Let's just...be honest. White authors, it would likely take a minimum of ten years of intense, in-depth, PHD level study before you could authentically reflect BIPOC points of view. And
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AKD, COLA 4 ALL!!!
FreshFredKid
Toni Morrison famously said that racism "keeps [us] explaining, over and over again, [our] reason for being." I'm thinking a lot about this antagonism: the madness of whiteness; the gluttonous,
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