The feedback received in my campaign against racism (
White People Are Beautiful Too) never ceases to amaze me. One particular comment that caught my eye was the person who found my defence for the Caucasian race “disturbing” because I’m Chinese.
Is it disturbing when White defends Black? How about when William Wilberforce made it his personal agenda to abolish the African slave trade?
Defending someone requires empathy alone. There’s no such thing as “reverse racism”. Racism is racism, while socially accepted discrimination against Caucasians was created by none other than self-loathing White liberals as a deception. White oppression is real, but people are too afraid to speak up, rendering anti-Caucasianism harmless as it remains hidden. Calling someone “pale” or “pasty” and alongside with “frail” is racism. The same goes for making fun of a darker skinned person without the use of chocolate.
If the history card is to be played, isn’t it racism to call a Jew “frail and pasty”, considering their history of unspeakable turmoil within the walls of Nazi concentration camps?
In one of the comments,
MsButterworth311 wrote, “Wow we’re finally getting a taste of our own medicine!”
This is a dangerous mindset. Not only does it imply that every member of the Caucasian race deserves prejudice, it lumps them together, including the Irish who were enslaved. Irish females were forced to be raped by African men to create more profit in the slave trade. Do they deserve a taste of said medicine?
History gives us the opportunity to better ourselves, not to repeat mistakes, but hypocrisy outweighs logic. While there are some who claim Whites aren’t the most oppressed, they contradict themselves by acknowledging them as the safest group to attack. This form of safety is the exact reason White oppression exists.
Even more mind-boggling is how Black women are actually defending the same liberals who deem the original African female unattractive. How often, if ever do we see a Black female with kinky hair in entertainment? Their nakedness is exploited in science and nature documentaries because black breasts are considered ugly and to resemble those of a monkey’s.
Almost every actress of colour is conformed to the standard that having light skin and delicate features is the only form of beauty. It causes insecurity amongst Black females, creating an environment of unpredictability that feeds into the deception promoting White oppression.
Insecurity as in (
EbonyBarbie), “There were so many beautiful sexy colored women mostly black or latina, we happened to turn the page after seeing so many gorgeous women and happened to end up seeing a really pale white woman in purple undies. Let me just tell you, we were so turned off. It looked dead and unappealing.”
To further elaborate, we must take into account the comedic industry. Would Russell Peters be able to thrive on making racially discriminating jokes if he was Caucasian? Chris Rock discriminates against the Caucasian race time and time again, yet no one is publicly offended because racism against Whites is encouraged.
Either we abolish racism, or give everyone a free ticket to make fun of anyone of any race. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t go and call someone “cracker”, or “white trash” and get away with it, but yet you can…
Funny, how there are consequences to defending Whites and none with minorities. Making examples of their oppression is apparently racist because I’m generalizing? What the deluded fail to understand is the difference between the two because examples are evidence that racism exists, while generalization is a catalyst that yields hatred and more.
Generalizing is bringing up blood diamonds as a justifiable defence to suppress the truth. As
Big_Esh very intelligently wrote, “Didn’t the word ‘bling’ come from black people? You know, the rich black rappers who wear ‘blood diamonds’ large enough to eat dinner off of?”
Affirmative action is a voluntary slap in the face to minorities who see no problem with its falsities. They’re agreeing to be intellectually inferior and that their sole reason for employment is skin colour. It’s hilarious how these hypocrites are racist against themselves.
As far as White boys are concerned, listen up. You’re neither frail nor pasty. Get that stinking weed out of your mouth and speak like you finished grade three. Stop jumping around like a bunch of crazed apes to that hip-hop gangster (c)rap and pull your pants up already. You look like you just soiled yourself!
Get offended when you’re discriminated against, and stop taking insults like a doormat. Grow some balls and be the White man you were meant to be. Take a stand for your women because anything else makes you nothing more than a White boy.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED:
White people are beautiful, and Caucasian women don’t look like corpses because of their impeccable whiteness, though excessive tanning will cause death from skin cancer. White women are beautiful just the way they are.
Reader, what are the dangers of White oppression remaining hidden? What are the damaging ripple effects of this mass deception? Why do you think people continue to buy into this racial propaganda?
Comments (205)
i really don't know. we've got over 200 years of white enslavement of blacks, and we're 50 odd years fresh out of the civil rights movement. there are still people around who remember having to go to a colored bathroom. i feel like we should let them crack the jokes for a couple more decades then call it quits.
on the flip side, racist jokes only feed the fire of racial tension, but still, is it so easy to forgive and forget like that? i can't answer that, only the people can.
You are right, but at the end of the day, life is hard for pretty much everyone. If you try to get outraged at all the injustices in your life, you're just going to be.........outraged.
Better to move on and actually accomplish something.......prove your critics wrong by doing something, instead of just asking them to stop.Any time you do anything different, you will find critics, so just forget it and move on.Oh Ricky, admit it, you just love white people. P.S. I have a bear I've had since I was a itty bitty and his name is Cracker. Does that make me racist against my own race?
"There were so many beautiful sexy colored women mostly black or latina, we happened to turn the page after seeing so many gorgeous women and happened to end up seeing a really pale white woman in purple undies. Let me just tell you, we were so turned off. It looked dead and unappealing.”
I don't think that white women are unattractive at all, and if she is being insecure, she has a reason to be. It's very rare to see "minorities" in fashion magazines. Fashion magazines are designed to tell women what's what in fashion and beauty, and if all we see is white beauty in magazines, then how are we not going to feel insecure. I'm not saying that white women are not beautiful in their own way, but i'm also saying that I don't think white people are oppressed. Sure there is prejudice against them but overall, they're not oppressed in any major way.
Great post.
Hilarious last line, about the sun tanning.
I did not know that bit about Irish slaves, that's really interesting. Sad, and terrible, but interesting.
I've always figured, if I'm not racist towards anyone, no one gets to be racist towards me. Period. Whether or not I'm white. Do unto others, and all that jazz.
@Cuenquita - I would have to agree. Discrimination and oppression are two different things.
I'm exceptional white, and have been called ugly all my life, told I need to tan to be beautiful. I hate how people still can't get over the color of others skin. If skin color turns you off you are racist plain and simple.
i support French people! (cuz they've been making gewwwwwd horror cinema for the past few years noaw
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@Cuenquita - can you really say that until you've been there? Have you been bullied every day of your life because of your skin color? Get told your ugly every single day just because you have fair skin?
All because every idiot person in this world thinks that they need repayment.
i was listening to n.p.r. the other day.......and peoples were talking abt asians getting together(in the u.s.) and getting some kinda racial solidarity, except they said pacific islanders..no i think they said all asians..hmmmmm maybe they could get together at dallas stadium for brunch and stand 4 high...i mean i don't get it..then one guy said he was treated kindly in iowa , but still felt different......welll if you feel different then you will be.....its a self fullfilling thing......they wanted to be separated out to say hey look at us..were all asian...and then want to blend in...isnt that stupid?????..i'll never get it..all races should stop seeing colors and act like freaking humans and forget it.................................
@rebootie - that's the thing, sadly they already are acting like humans. It's human nature to act ignnorent and selfish.
I believe that negative comments toward a race or culture is considered racist. But let's remember that if a person has a preference it doesn't make that person a racist. It is how we treat each other. It is a matter of respecting the differences in all of us.
Excellent post! Well spoken! I don't know what else to say.
Reverse racism exists, but the term itself is not accepted and it is still the same wrong doings as racism. The term "minority" is just on a demographic basis, which only reflects the amount of a certain people. It does not mean that the race is weak or anything else. I agree with the rest of your post.
I just think it is frustrating to be discriminated against as a result of the fact that my ancestors may have or may not have [but probably not] owned black slaves. I didn't even know those people. I didn't oppress anyone.
I think my white skin is beautiful. I am very, very pale. And it works for me. I could lay in the sun for hours and not get the least bit tan too. It isn't because I am weak or because I don't go outside. That's just the natural state of my skin.
And I think there are many beautiful black girls too. I think women in general are beautiful, and it is ridiculous for women to constantly compare themselves to others.
And black people are barely a minority. There are almost as many black people in America as white people.
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I do agree with the girl that you rec'ed earlier today (sorry, this whole crazy life thing is really taking a toll on the amount of time I can devoted to being online lately...details escape me) that white people at the media's pets when it comes to missing persons/murder cases. Back when Tim had satalite radio, he was listening to a comic, who's name also escapes me, whom said something along the lines of, "You've got to be careful with white women. They go missing all the time!" Jennifer Kesse. Jon Benet. Caylee Anthony. Laci Petersen. Grandma's watching HGTV again or I'd flip on the 10 o'clock news and continue the list. Meanwhile, a black woman's murdered and seven years after the fact the city of Orlando throws up a billboard in the area in which she was killed, asking anyone with information to come forward. I don't recall if there was even a reward for info offered. I've long stood up and called bullshit on that.
But that does not make it right to put down any race, period.
@Cuenquita - I agree that "oppression" is the wrong word. Whites are still largely in power in many ways. We do see mostly white news anchors, actors, etc.. But when you look at the qoute that you referred to, the original author was remarking not that she never saw any models of color -- just the opposite, actually; "There were so many beautiful sexy colored women mostly black or latina..." -- and fashion magazines tend to be more diverse than any other publication, from what I've seen...so...I guess I'm confused as to why she has the right to be hatin' on the white chick in the purple undies...??
@Chinese_Sait0u - I can understand what you are saying but the problem is... they are passing their racism down to their children. :(
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@Mirravin - There is a difference between oppression and prejudice. The people that bullied you were discriminating against you, they were prejudiced. That is my point. Individually, you might be facing unjust discrimination but I don't believe white people in general are oppressed.
Oppression is when a group of people exercise an unjust power over another. Prejudice, sexism, and racism (against white people or otherwise) can lead to oppression but only if its incorporated into the law or/and into our culture. Open a magazine, turn on the television, listen to people incorporate stereotypes in their everyday talk. I'm sorry, but white people are not oppressed.
And I know all too well about being bullied because of the color of your skin.
To add to the conversation, is calling someone pale really insulting? Genuinely curious because people often refer to me as dark or tan, and I never found it insulting, it's just the way I am, so wouldn't pale be just the way you are?
Like I said before, I refuse to be victimized. I despise the notion of playing the race card, and in the interest of either eating or having my cake, but not both, I will not play it myself. I can't go around telling other people to lighten up and then start whining myself, right? If we could all just sit back and laugh at ourselves without getting offended about it, I feel like the world would be a much better place.
I agree with you about affirmative action... it's people who can't see far enough past their own bleeding heart to realize that they're putting their efforts into the wrong place. All the legislation and money wasted on AA would be better spent on inner-city education to really 'level the playing field'; the divide in opportunities nowadays isn't a schism between white/black, it's one between rich/poor -- which translated directly into better/worse educated in almost every circumstance. Unfortunately, this is largely a perpetuating cycle that many blacks and latinos are trapped in, and thus the knee-jerk reaction is that looming spectre of racism. "Black people aren't going to college so they're being oppressed!" is the cry, when there are more complicated causes than that - ones that AA in its present form simply isn't going to fix. I digress.
Anyway, I don't feel like I'm taking insults like a doormat; Chris Rock's cracking jokes about white people just doesn't bother me. Chances are I've made the same joke myself. That we can't make similar jokes about black people just shows that there are indeed knee-jerkers who want to throw around allegations of racism at the first opportunity, and that is by no means the sort of thing I want to be involved in or associated with.
There's a lot of ground in your post that I feel like I could respond to, but I don't want to get too far into tl;dr territory (I fear I've made it there already D:), so I'll let it go at that. All in all, this was a great read and it's refreshing to get a new perspective on things!
@phantomFive - amen, amen, amen. I want to give you like ten gold stars for this.
I'm "white," and my ancestry is mostly Irish and Gypsy, not exactly the "power classes" of europe. But, i get treated the same by the "black" people who live all around me all the time, refusing me service, calling me racist names, etc. It's a regular occurance - a few times a week, usually, but there's not really anyone I could ever complain to about it, because when I have, the common response is "well, white people have it coming," or something to that effect.
Thanks for saying something.
Incidentally, I have begun to wonder if there is a way past this.
@Cuenquita - that's the thing in my community the only white females considered even close to pretty are all blond and as thin as a stick.
I think one of the main reasons (if not the main reason) that it's "acceptable" to be racist against white people is because of all of the slavery that went around a while back. The thing though, is that the younger generations haven't gone through slavery. The younger generations have never owned a slave. Older people remember, yes; but most of the people who are racist against others haven't gone through that.
I think that there should be no jokes made about someones race, unless every single race is open to do that to others. If we're going to make racist jokes, we'd all better be able to do it - On ourselves and everyone else. Racism is sucky no matter what.
@filtered_sunlight@momaroo - I picked that quote because Ricky mentioned that she was insecure and I think she has a good reason to be. I was not justifying any unjust discrimination she might possess against white people.
Yeah, fashion magazines are more "diverse" than other magazines but take a look at the models, they all have "white" features, large eyes, straight hair, and skinny. These are features you wouldn't actually see from minorities (except for the exceptions to the rule, right?). Also, even if the magazines are more diverse than any other publication, that doesn't mean the majority of the models aren't white.