whatwhiteswillneverknow:

viviandemilo:

I think your blog is really cool, it definetly makes me question what I think and why that is my stance. It also exposes a lot a issues I was unaware of. Sometimes I don’t really understand some of the things you reblog though. You reblog a lot of stuff that kind of hates on white people. Wouldn’t hating white people be just as racist as hating all African-Americans? Or all Asians? I don’t mean for this to come off sounding critical, I’m just interested in finding out your opinion on this.
Anonymous

Thanks! Well, I’m white; from your logic, if that stuff what just about ‘hating white people’ for no reason, does it make sense to you that I would support it? It isn’t. Hating white people is definitely not the same as hating People of Color (PoC). Basically, white people run the country, and always have, and in order to stay in power and keep all the power and privileges for themselves, they use racism as a tool to abuse and oppress PoC. We spread propaganda that they were inferior and less human than we so we could enslave them so that we could benefit from their free labor, and even though slavery is over now, things still work much the same way. Racism=power+oppression, and currently white people have all the power, so it is a total joke to say that there can be racism against us. There isn’t. Racism is a systematic tool, it’s way more complicated than just hating someone for the color of their skin. Many (most?) racist white people don’t hate all PoC, that’s not what racism is; it’s keeping PoC at a disadvantage that we benefit from. It’s arresting and imprisoning large percentages of Black youth for things that white people do more often than they do (like drugs). It’s Asains having to have higher grades than everyone else to qualify for the same scholarships. It’s PoC making less money working the same jobs that white people work. It’s innocent Black children being murdered in cold blood in their own neighborhood by an adult, and getting blamed for it because we see all Black men and boys as devious and suspicious. It’s Black women being raped and being blamed for it because we see them as always being sexually available and not having the same humanity as white women. Racism teaches white people that PoC are inferior and expendable, and the way these views are so subtly ingrained into all parts of our culture makes us unaware that we think that way, makes it seem normal, allows white people the be happily in denial about it. Because white people think that racism only means hating someone for the color of their skin, so we can just say “well, I’ve met a Black/Asian/Latino/etc person and I liked them that means I’m not racist!” and blithely ignore the reality of what racism really means, and how we benefit from it. PoC being wary and resentful of white people is a very reasonable and logical way for them to feel when we have our boots on their necks every day, it is not the same type of thing as us hating them. It’s survival.

I hope this makes sense to you, let me know if you have any more questions. I know it’s a hard pill to swallow and it doesn’t feel good to think about, but keep in mind that we have the privilege of being able to not think about it; PoC don’t. They have to live with it every damn day, and the least we can do is try to educate ourselves so we can do the least amount of harm possible.

Made re-blogable upon request.

You want to know what we like most about this post? That it’s written by… well, let’s reblog their info:

Vivian De Milo: queer hard-femme-boi hot mess, descended from unicorns and jellyfish.

We also like the fact that they want to be refer to as “they” or “V”. We’re not so different, V and we. :)