What if I told you to “Shut the fuck up, Christian?” or “Shut the fuck up, Buddhist?” or “Shut the fuck up, Black guy?” or “Shut the fuck up, white person?”

Thought this was Williamsburg at first

I thought “the Reds” was a reference to Native Americans.

exactly

WHICH IS WHY INTERSECTIONALITY IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT, LADIES!!

I’ve thought this way for a couple of years, now. Why has the gay rights movement moved at a pace faster than any we’ve ever seen? White males. If only a white male needed an abortion every now and then, or was ever denied the right to vote, we might get a little movement on repro rights and voting rights, too.

I think racism + sexism is a HUGE part of it. Conservatives hate nothing more than black women, and the black straw-woman they’ve created in their mind spends her time having promiscuous sex, and then alternately having children out of wedlock OR aborting them, all to get her hands on that sweet, sweet welfare money.

Why? Racism + Sexism.

something similar is happening re: racial justice/race-related civil rights protections.

While the privacy/equality distinction is important, the fact the the fight for marriage equality is essentially a conservative demand should be factored in. Allowing new types of couples to access a traditional and widely revered form of union is a far cry from reproductive choice for women.

Potter’s family is really regretting the decision not to stage an intervention before he hit rock bottom.

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Your post almost seems to imply that we don’t still benefit from slavery... we just don’t have to personally see it anymore.

And then there’s all the cool things our slaves built:

that’s weird I thought all us black people just get jobs that we aren’t qualified for because affirmative action or some shit. But we don’t take em because we make enough money off welfare to live in mansions and eat shrimp. At least that’s what Ronald Raygun taught me. Who knew.

I worked at a family-run place where we often needed fill-in help. The only two people who didn’t “work out” were my roommate, and the friend of one of the other guys in the shop. They were the only Black people who ever worked there, and they each lasted one day due to some mysterious problems the boss had with their…

That's terribly sad. I'm guessing you're black. I guess some people don't understand that NYC is a very diverse place and that they're going to have to interact with people who don't look like them.

I agree with you— yet I wish you would not say “white mannerisms” etc. those of us who use those mannerism also contribute to them—

What I often say is that everything I do is “black” so if you don’t like blackness that applies to me too.

Is the only way I can escape racist judgement through renouncing my culture and my history?

I like being a black person, I don’t want to be “raceless” I like black people and black culture and blackness. And it often feels radical to do even that in this country where these things are often hated.

And you know I’m not…

I think (white) people tend to conflate “race is a social construct” with “race doesn’t exist”, when those aren’t even close to being equal statements. Race exists because white people created it in order to put themselves above everyone else.