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collectivecrack:

White American males constitute only 33% of the population. Yet, they occupy approximately:

• 80% of tenured positions in higher education
• 80% of the House of Representatives
• 80-85% of the U.S. Senate
• 92%of Forbes 400 executive CEO-level positions
• 90% of athletic team owners
• 97.7% of U.S. presidents

And then they flip out when they’re not allowed in the Women’s Tent. 

I can’t decide whether to laugh or to cry. I might do both. 

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I may or may not want this t-shirt. 

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“The war on drugs has helped make the U.S. the world’s largest incarcerator.

America’s criminal justice system should keep communities safe, treat people fairly, and use fiscal resources wisely. But more Americans are deprived of their liberty than ever before - unfairly and unnecessarily, with no benefit to public safety. Especially in the face of economic crisis, our government should invest in alternatives to incarceration and make prisons options of last – not first – resort.”

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Too bad whoever made this forgot Native peoples. And the chubby line…can someone explain that to me? It doesn’t make any sense. 

My reaction to guys (usually white) who try to pick me up by speaking Chinese

My reaction to whenever someone says, “Oh wow, you’re really tall and curvy for an Asian chick!”

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A Guide to Hipster Anti-Racism →

“You might be participating in hipster anti-racism if….

1. You offer “snaps” or props to the criticisms your POC friends present of other white folks, but find yourself participating in many of the behaviors being criticized.
2. You enter conversations about race armed with a lot of vocabulary that may make the dialog inaccessible to newcomers.  You also often find yourself speaking first in these spaces.
3. In all white spaces and events you participate in, you ask the question “why are there no people of color here right now?” instead of “what am I and others doing that might be consistently alienating to people of color?”.
4. You find yourself often advocating the most “radical” position in the room, and are indignant when others propose that this position might be impractical or inaccessible on the basis of race, class, or other factors.”

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But of course.

"We can be racist by conditioning, antiracist by choice. That racism is part of who we are does not mean that it’s all of who we are, or that it must be the controlling or dominant part of who we are. By the same token, just because we choose to be antiracist, does not mean that we no longer carry around some of the racism with which we were raised, or to which we were and are exposed."

Tim Wise

Random thoughts

Yet another paper that I wrote a few years ago for a class:

SECTION ONE

            Standpoint is a central issue and theme in “Defining Black Feminist Thought” for it is the basis upon which Patricia Hill Collins builds her arguments. In her essay, Collins argues that being a black feminist is not an issue of skin color, but rather of a multitude of different factors including standpoint. A wealthy white feminist cannot, in good faith, be a black feminist because of her standpoint that shares few commonalities with that of a black feminist. From differences in standpoint comes differences in thoughts, ideals, and beliefs; from differences in standpoint comes the reason why second-wave feminism alienated women of color and women outside of the heteronormative boundaries of society. Standpoint, as Collins alludes to in her essay, is born forth from struggle, experience, and identity and is the culmination of a person’s views and philosophies on life as formed by life experiences.

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