the-cold-revolution:

thegoddamazon:

Y’all gonna learn something interjecting your white opinions into conversations you can’t even relate to.

What if you are not using opinions, you are using facts?

Like facts supporting the inequality of jail time for non-violent offenses and the…

I am reblogging this because I both agree and disagree. Not all white people are ignorant, racist bigots. There are intelligent white people out there who are not at all apathetic about the situation of PoC all over this world, there are white people out there who UNDERSTAND the way the system works.

When I was in the 8th grade, I had a childhood crush  on a black guy. I would go so far as to say that he was my first ‘love.’ We lost contact after freshman year of high school. 

Thanks to Facebook, he has come back into my life. Our very first conversation as adults was about the state of PoC in this country. This man got caught up when the streets called. He is a beautiful, intelligent human being who got caught up in a cycle of oppression, crime, and a “you aint shit” mentality handed down to his people by the the ideology of white superiority that pervades this country. He was a victim of his circumstances. A victim of his environment, and a victim of the LACK of options PoC are given (especially poor PoC). 

I went on a very long rant about this to him. How, white people (and not the white man working a minimum wage job to pay bills..I mean the white man we DONT see) have stripped his people of their identity. He is a descendant of those who survived the middle passage …this inherently makes him STRONG. An intelligent, strong black man is frightening to white ideology. As soon as we unshackled his ancestors, we began to mentally and physically tear them down. This is when the “you aint shit” mentality took root. And, for so many, being told you aint shit cements into your head and you think “Well, im not gonna be shit.” Not only this..but when youre hustling selling dope, making hundreds sometimes a day…and this is the environment and options that has been given to your people for generations, then some white man tells you to get a real job making less than half of what you make selling dope….ITS A FUCKING JOKE. The system is designed to strip PoC of their strength and pride and we live in an age of neo enslavement.

I said all of this to him, and then I apologized for going on a tangent. Then I said “Do you know, like, do you realize that white people are the single most BULLHEADED, IGNORANT, RACIST, DUMB MOTHER FUCKERS ON THIS PLANET?”

…and he laughed and it went silent.

A few seconds later he said “To hear you say this shit…you dont know what this means to me, as a black man. To hear all of this truth coming from a white girls mouth is ….revolutionary. We need people like you and that really just meant so much to me. You dont even know.”

All I was doing was telling the truth. So, with all due respect, I know that someone very important gave a fuck about my feelings that day. When you tell the truth, people tend to give a fuck. You just have to tell the truth.

*I also want to point out, that there are many things blacks and whites can relate to..especially if they come from the same social class. Whites will NEVER be able to relate to being black in America, or being a PoC. Never. But some whites (including myself) can relate to growing up in the hood and doing what the fuck you HAVE TO DO to provide, and survive..with the very limited options youve been given. 

Wow. I found this video really sad. 

Fucking.quote.me.or.stop.wasting.my.goddamn.time. That is all. Calling myself a Gypsy is not contradicting at all, and if you are too stupid to understand that..well, I am not sorry, and I am not surprised. So, stop typing paragraphs of utter bullshit to me, and quote me. Simple. Show me where I said that ANYONE cannot represent who they are. Show me. Should be reallyyyy easy, amirite? 

And I am sooo sure that *someone* told you about my ignorant post and you dont have a Tumblr, lololol and you came here justttttttttt to talk to me! 

Thats great and all..but…

If you dont have any actual valid arguments for me, and if you cannot show me where I said that someone cannot represent who they are, or that someone cannot represent their tribe, etc..then youre just going to have to sit the fuck down. 

What you seem to be failing to understand is that I am not discussing Natives who are representing their tribes. I am not discussing Rromani women who are Tarot readers. I am discussing people who are misappropriating these, or other cultures. I am not talking about, or discussing, or referring to normal cultural exchange. I am not talking about, or discussing the normal, natural outcomes of living in a multicultural society where cultural exchange and some forms of appropriation are completely normal and a natural outcome. I AM talking about, discussing, and referring to, people who reduce PoC to stereotypes. A white woman dancing in a field with a crystal ball and her titties hanging out saying that shes a “Gypsy.” A white woman wearing bootie shorts and a wife beater with a full Plains headdress on. If you cannot see why those things are hurtful then I actually pity you, since you say you are Native American. I am not saying that ANYONE cannot do those things. 

I am telling them why they should not. Representing who we are, whether white, black, purple or green…is NOT devaluing other cultures traditions by reducing them to inappropriate stereotypes. That is not representing who we are. That is not representing who ANYONE is. That is misrepresentation and misappropriation. Its..pretty simple. 

As a matter of fact, since you cant seem to pose any valid counter arguments, I am going to recommend some reading material for you, since, quite obviously the ongoing ideology of white superiority in this country has gotten to you subconsciously and you cant seem to wrap your head around why white people shouldnt run around patting their mouths yelling “OH OH OH OH OH!!! hahahahahahahaha HOW! HAHAHA IM PART INDIAN HAAHAHAHA OH OH OH OH!”

Read:
Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation
and
Cannibal Culture.

Start with these two.