thisiswhiteprivilege:
I think the issue is that white people think getting made fun of based on your race is the sole manifestation of racism.
And I wish…
I fucking wish that was all it was.
I can handle that. I can live with that. I could go on about my whole life and never care about racism if it was only about jokes.
What they don’t realize is that racism kills. Racism is genocide. Racism is police brutality and deportation and “random additional screening” and denial of housing and failing schools and unclean water and violent neighborhoods and joblessness and drone strikes and pandemic diseases.
When white people en masse have to deal with these things BECAUSE OF CAUSES DIRECTLY RELATED TO THEIR SKIN COLOR, then we can talk about how you can experience racism, but the black girl who made fun of ghostly ass in middle school is not reverse racism. Grow up, you bunch of babies.