...confessions of an educated black gyrrl...

This is a resource post for all the Good White Person™s out there. You know, the ones who say things like “It’s not my fault I’m white! Don’t generalize white people!”, or “I’m appreciating your culture! You should be proud!”, or “Why do you hate all white people, look I’m a special snowflake who’s not racist give me an award for meeting the minimum requirements for being a decent human being”.

Well, if you are actually interested in understanding racism and how it ties into cultural appropriation, please read instead of endlessly badgering PoCs on tumblr with your cliched, unoriginal arguments and repeating the same questions over and over.

On White Privilege
aka don’t blame me just because I’m white:

It’s Not My Fault I Was Born White: Basics of White Privilege x

Racial Divide x

Endless Examples of White Privilege x

You Cannot Know What It’s Like To Be A Racial Minority x

Intersectional Feminism x

White Privilege Does Not Mean White People Have Perfect Lives x

White Privilege and White Supremacy: A Presentation x

You Will Never Experience Racism x

Understanding White Privilege x

White Privilege and Double Standards x

Systematic White Ignorance x

The Invisibility of White Privilege x

The Luxury of White Privilege x

White Privilege: The Harry Potter Analogy x

Privilege Denial Bingo x

Privilege and Cost x

Check Your Privilege 101 x

Whiteness x

Whiteness is Not A Culture x

White Privilege and Racism x

Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk About Race x

When White Anti Racists Talk About ~Their Struggle~ x

White Privilege As A System x

On Reverse Racism
aka you are being racist against white people:

Are White People Racially Oppressed x

White People, the new Racial Minority x

People Don’t Value Pale Skin!! x

There Is No Such Thing As Reverse Racism x

Racism vs. Not Racism x

But White People Are Discriminated Against In Foreign Countries x

The Myth of Reverse Racism: Why Cracker is Not N**** x

Satire: A Step Wise Guide on Being Reverse Racist x

Racism Against White People vs. Racism Against POCs x

On Cultural Appropriation
aka I’m just appreciating your culture:

The Basics x

Identifying Appropriation x

But When We Wear It … x

Why Can’t I Wear It (Hipster Headdresses) x

Not Yours x

If You Take The Bindi x

White People Do It Better x

Multiculturalism and Appropriation x

Cultural Appropriation and Portrayals In Print Media x

Diminishing the Cultural Significance of the Bindi x

The Cultural Appropriation Bingo x

Why We’re Fed Up of Your Responses x

Identities Are Not Costumes x

Hinduism And Appropriation x

Religion and Privilege x

Bindis Are Cool x

Exotic India x

What’s Wrong With Cultural Appropriation x

Racism, Bindis and Ganesh Tattoos x

BUT YOU’RE SPEAKING ENGLISH! x

Cultural Appropriation Trolls x

Guide to Being An Appropriating Douchefuck x

New Age ~Culture Mixing~ x

In case you’re tired of the prose, here’s poetry x

Why You Shouldn’t Wear A Bindi x

Appropriating and Sharing x

Our Culture is A Punchline Until It’s a Trend x

Homage Or Insult x

Tattoos and Appropriation x

Bollywood is Not Synonymous With Indian x

College Party Costumes and Stereotypes x

Dotheads x

Bindis and Racist Humour x

Hindu Iconography x

Misuse of Hindu Iconography x

Your Appreciation Doesn’t Help Us x

Assorted Vials of White Tears and Miscellaneous Antidotes
aka I can’t change that I’m white/not all whites are racist/we are all humans:

Unoriginal Arguments Refuted x

Quick Checklist: You Might Be Racist If x

Your Opinion Isn’t Necessary x

I’m Not Responsible For My Ancestors x

The Kumbayah Myth x

Proud to Be White x

Good White Person x

We Don’t Hate White People x

Brutality of Colonialism And Why You Can’t Tell Us To Forget the Past x

People Who Claim Not To See Race Are More Likely to Be Racist x

All Races are Beautiful Said the White Girl x

Race Blindness Is A Luxury x

Well, You’re Racist For Calling Me Racist x

I’ve Read About Its Significance, I Know What It Means

Angry Because Someone Called You Racist x

We’re Not All Like That x

People Only Care About This Trivial Shit On The Internet x

I Can’t Apologize for Being Born White, It’s Not My Fault x

Why Can’t You Tell Me What I’m Doing Wrong x

It’s Easy to Be Color Blind When You’re White x

A Diagrammatic Guide To White Tears x

Conversations I’m Sick Of Having With White People x

Why Do You Hate White People x

I’m Trying To Be Cultured x

Sisyphean Conundrum x

What is Your Problem x

We Are All Human, We All Bleed Red x

It’s Just A Bindi x

How Not To Respond To Accusations of Racism x

I’m Italian And 0.009% Native American x

What White People Think Racism Means: A Venn Diagram x

White Guilt x

White Pride!!!111!!! x

I Like *Insert Foreign Country* I Want To Live There x

You Have So Much Hate, Fighting Fire With Fire Won’t Help x

BooHoo, Don’t Call Me Racist x

Not Everything Ended With Your Ancestors x

The Racist Reaction x

I Don’t See Why That Is Racist x

Crummy Apologies x

Okay. I agree. I’ve been socially conditioned not to notice racism and recognize my privilege. What can I do?

Listen x

A Step Wise Guide x

I don’t care about this bullshit; you’re making a big deal out of nothing, go home and delete your blog:

The Clueless White Person Bus x

satanic2chainz: callherhoney: p2hot: allcreatures: A young...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:26:46 -0400

satanic2chainz:

callherhoney:

p2hot:

allcreatures:

A young woman and her service dog caused quite a stir over the weekend when they both showed up to her college graduation ceremony dressed in matching caps and gowns.

Click through for full story.

(via Service Dog Arrives At College Graduation In Cap And Gown, Becomes A Celebrity (PHOTOS))

Dog: You damn fucking right I’m wearing a cap and fucking gown. I went to more classes den that long haired white hipster ass mofo other there so I KNOW I deserve this more than his ass. I aint ask to read and discuss fucking Virginia Woolfe. I thought she was a fucking dog. Then I found out it was crazy homely ass white woman. I literally had to sit through an hour and a half of that bullshit. Oh I’m getting a fucking diploma today.

DIED.

holy shit

*flat lined*

atrewn: In a lecture delivered at Mount Holyoke College...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:24:26 -0400

atrewn:

In a lecture delivered at Mount Holyoke College in 1978, poet writer activist Audre Lorde offers a re-reading of the erotic, one that locates power within the erotic, a power which can illuminate our actions through deep feeling. In her perhaps antiquated yet vitalizing presentation of erotic empowerment, Lorde pushes us to engage the forbidden nonrationality of feeling.

…[H]ow often do we really love our work? The principle horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or which defines human need to the exclusion of the psychic and emotional components of that need…is that it robs our work of itserotic value, its erotic power, its erotic life appeal and fulfillment. Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread, or an oblivion for ourselves and those we love. And this is tantamount to blinding a painter, and then telling her to improve her work, to enjoy the act of painting - it is not only next to impossible; it is also profoundly cruel.

[Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”, 1978]

femmeboy: Longing to be Miss Grace. So Femme !!! Can I...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:04:01 -0400

femmeboy:

Longing to be Miss Grace.

So Femme !!!

Can I get those lips though? Like for real.

I told ya’ll, geese…ducks, they ain’t shit.

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:17:42 -0400

I told ya’ll, geese…ducks, they ain’t shit.

sexismandthecity: Agree

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:00:31 -0400

sexismandthecity:

Agree

glamgori: As always, Hari says it best.

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:48:21 -0400

glamgori:

As always, Hari says it best.

#41

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:45:08 -0400

thisiswhiteprivilege:

White privilege is living on stolen land, and having the arrogance to say “Go back to where you came from”.

welp.

queerfabulousmermaid: tebianco: roachpatrol: pavel-petel: Pav...

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:43:02 -0400

queerfabulousmermaid:

tebianco:

roachpatrol:

pavel-petel:

Pavel Pétel for H&M
Makeup & Photo: Sergey Ostrikov

I don’t know what’s happening here but I like it.

^

yes, that first photo gives me life.

I love this man.

laughingacademy: karnythia: theotheryang: karnythia: tyndall-...

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:40:33 -0400

laughingacademy:

karnythia:

theotheryang:

karnythia:

tyndall-blue:

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

Still waiting for her movie. And appearances in period dramas.

I heard there was a movie in the works[http://www.inquisitr.com/658074/rihanna-to-play-josephine-baker/] and that they were eyeing Rihanna for the role.
Imo, that’s a no.
And I’ve only ever seen her in Midnight in Paris, but I don’t think they said her name.

I will fight them if they try to cast Rihanna. Not just no, hell no.

There was an HBO biopic back in the 1990s: The Josephine Baker Story.

Gimme that hair!!!

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:36:44 -0400

Gimme that hair!!!

im-a-kittycat: “So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last...

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:35:31 -0400

im-a-kittycat:

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”

- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl

That’s pretty awesome.

thepeoplesrecord: On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police...

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:13:26 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped explosives containing C-4 on the roof of a house where members of the black liberation & social justice organization MOVE lived. Right before, police attacked the house with 10,000 rounds of ammunition in 90 minutes, knowing that children were inside. The house burned for 45 minutes before hoses were turned on.

Eleven people, including founder John Africa, five adults & five children were killed. The incident also destroyed 65 homes in the area, leaving 250 homeless. Witnesses reported police officers shooting at those trying to escape from the fire that ensued.

MOVE continues to advocate for prisoners’ rights & for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal & nine MOVE members who were found guilty of the murder of a police officer in 1978.

remember our history.