Know what’s so funny about this? How the blue-eyed White folks know this is an exercise (as in not real life!) and can’t stand taking the shit people of color deal with for a couple of hours before they’re screaming and crying and storming off. They know it’s fake, and they still can’t deal!
Yet these are the people who are supposedly so much smarter than me, so much more reasonable than me, so much more civilized than me!
She. Goes. IN on these white folks. GOES IN.
“I cannot waste my tears for a white woman who knows that this is temporary…. I save my sympathy and my empathy for those who go through this every day of their lives….”
I know that some of you follow me because you occasionally learn something between my awkward personal posts.
I’m sorry this isn’t captioned, but if you’re able to, please watch this, esp. if you’re non-POC.
well damn.
At first I thought the exercise was a little too intense.. I still think it’s really scary.. but looking at the idea on the people but challenging the idea of discrimination based on people’s foreground. This exercise was an eye opener for many.
Absolutely necessary. She’s ruthless, cold and super fierce, but to be honest that’s how it’s been for the longest time. I know I’m one of the privileged that has had the blessing of not encountering such a demeaning encounter, but now that I really think back… that’s the way some of my own high school teachers treated some of the students in the CP classes. This video may look like it’s been produced a while back, but the reality is that this treatment still exists and we pass by this every single day because it’s what society has taught— that this is normal. I have had the privilege to be brought up in an educated home, with hardworking parents with middle-income jobs, to be Filipino and classified “Asian” and labeled “clean” and “smart,to be heterosexual in a heterosexual society, and to have all my limbs intact and to be in a relatively healthy condition. But being privileged isn’t an excuse to be ignorant. It’s what we do with these privileges that make all the difference.
22nd January, Sunday (2:18pm) Reblog +
