Posted on 09/07/2017 12:38:52 AM PDT by Cronos
Last week, model Munroe Bergdorf hit headlines when a statement she’d posted on social media following the protests in Charlottesville allegedly calling all white people racist was leaked to the Daily Mail. Since then, Bergdorf has received rape threats and death threats, been accused of “playing the victim”, and been sacked from a L’Oréal campaign that, ironically, celebrates diversity.
For the record, I’m white. I don’t hate other white people. Lots of my friends are white. Yet the statement “all white people are racist” doesn’t make me angry. It makes me sad, because I believe it’s probably true.
...We live in a society that is built on the spoils of racism, and that continues to benefit from inequality in all its forms. Or, as Bergdorf put it: “Slavery and colonialism, at the hands of white supremacy, played a huge part in shaping the United Kingdom and much of the west, into the superpower that it is today.”
“Why does that make me a racist?!” I hear you ask. It comes down to this: in western society we are all taught (explicitly or implicitly) that lighter is better. Those racist narratives are particularly prevalent in the US, but you’re kidding yourself if you think we Britons don’t suffer from the same prejudice. Take, for example, the stereotypical portrayals of black people in the media.
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Agree 100%
I like to think of myself as a realist. Not a racist of any sort.
I’ve seen enough deceit and lies from the left to last three lifetimes. I can spot these foolish liberals coming a mile away with their BS. Everything they say is designed to guilt people into giving in to their demands. That garbage only works on people with a deep seated guilt complex. It works on people with weak minds that aren’t grounded in confidence of who and what they are. They can call me anything they want and accuse me of anything it makes no difference to me.
I know exactly who and what I am and that doesn’t include racist. I do get quite a kick out of laughing at these liberal idiots, with their crazy, bogus claims though.
It’s good to be white....idiot.
Push the content of man’s character....
Most lawyers suffer from that affliction.
How many white children does she have?
Sorry, but I’m not racist. Yes, most of my friends are white, however, I have friends who are Black and Asians. Mrs Deplorable sister married a black, my nephew married an Asian and a cousin of mine married a Hawaiian.
Agreed. More identity politics.
A homosexual male.
I’m a FReeper. I’m proud to be part of the problem—for the Left and race hustlers—since 1998!
Go to hell!!!
The real racists are the ones constantly using race like this author.
JoMa
>> Since then, Bergdorf has received rape threats
Uh huh, because a lot of angry white men want to rape a transexual. Doesn’t pass the smell test
Yet the statement “all white people are racist” doesn’t make me angry. It makes me sad, because I believe it’s probably true
That statement makes you a bigot.
>>Or, as Bergdorf put it: “Slavery and colonialism, at the hands of white supremacy, played a huge part in shaping the United Kingdom and much of the west, into the superpower that it is today.”
Slavery and colonialism are coming to England via Islamic imperialism. Go look at Sharia law and see what a supremacist ideology looks like, lowly kufir.
She’s guilty of hate speech.
FU Katherine Craig
The kill white people movement started with barack obama. Period.
feh...
Most minorities have some White blood indicating a willingness of Whites to mix.
Who be da' racis?
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