Natasha Marin: Professional Victim.
Posted on 07/28/2016 4:35:10 AM PDT by simpson96
When local artist Natasha Marin spoke with Seattle Weekly last week about Reparations.me, her then-7-day-old website and Facebook page, she was clearly fraying around the edges—underfed, overworked, and ragged as hell.
“I’ve had about 12 hours of sleep since Friday,” she said over the phone with a hoarse laugh, as a second phone buzzed and buzzed in the background. She responded to one last frantic message and attempted to close the “99 windows I have open” in order to pull together her thoughts. “I maybe have eaten, like, one real meal. I’m at that point of exhaustion now, if I see two bunnies kissing each other, I’ll just start crying. I’m just that tired.”
Reparations.me has clearly struck a nerve, one that is pulsing hard right now, online and on the streets: White people should act, and many desperately want to act, in the fight against systemic racism.
The basic concept of Marin’s site is this: White people have a responsibility to do something to help dismantle white supremacy and white privilege, and people of color are experiencing trauma and stress related to white supremacy and white privilege. So Marin created a simple platform through which white people can offer, and people of color can request, goods or services—everything from groceries to funds for emergency surgery to chakra cleanses. In barely a week and a half, hundreds of people have offered, requested, or fulfilled all that and far more; thousands of dollars have been donated, including to the “Troll Fund,” which Marin created so that for every racist message the site receives, one dollar will go directly to someone requesting financial assistance. (Donors have been dubbed “Troll-Slayers,” and, as the site boasts, “Hate can buy groceries now.”)
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Natasha Marin: Professional Victim.
Reparations for WHAT???
They live in the greatest country in the world where anyone who will do a little hard work can become quite well off. Eff them. Get off your welfare taking @$$3$ and go to work.
Will obama’s white side pay his black side?
Insanity at it’s best
In a ‘connected’ online society, the one with the inclination to make bucks for no work usually starts a begging website and tries to convince bleeding heart fools to part with their money. Follow the money.
for later
1099 their asses.
Good for her. No one in my family has ever owned a slave going back 200 years, according to census records. If those who feel guilt think they can buy their way out then they are suckers. Does she give a receipt one can wave at a thug and get them to apologize and not take tour wallet?
I have had folks point out to me that “so what” your ancestors owned no slaves. No one today has ever owned a slave. Good point. This is all so much PT Barnum...born every minute.
Always, something for nothing.
No kidding. . .not to mention the 500,000 that died in the Civil War.
The deaths of several of my ancestors while wearing blue uniforms is more than enough payment.
Study is hard. Work is hard. Begging is easy.
Is that good enough for ya,sweetie? Or do you want *more*?
Translave. Born free, self-identifies as a slave — the kind who dreams not of freedom, but of being a master.
As long as the giving is voluntary, I don’t see anything wrong. The rationale is stupid, but people can do stupid things with their own money. Just leave me out of it.
Does she carry a bike horn and honk it instead of talking?
Would anyone be terribly offended if I gracefully declined to participate? How about if I not so gracefully declined to participate?
LOL
Exactly....
I have no guilt and feel no need to make up for someone else's ancestors injustices to someone else's ancestors.
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