Posted on 08/14/2018 3:11:01 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Dear Sugars,
I’m riddled with shame. White shame. This isn’t helpful to me or to anyone, especially people of color. I feel like there is no “me” outside of my white/upper middle class/cisgender identity. I feel like my literal existence hurts people, like I’m always taking up space that should belong to someone else.
I consider myself an ally. I research proper etiquette, read writers of color, vote in a way that will not harm P.O.C. (and other vulnerable people). I engage in conversations about privilege with other white people. I take courses that will further educate me. I donated to Black Lives Matter. Yet I fear that nothing is enough. Part of my fear comes from the fact that privilege is invisible to itself. What if I’m doing or saying insensitive things without realizing it?
Another part of it is that I’m currently immersed in the whitest environment I’ve ever been in. My family has lived in the same apartment in East Harlem for four generations. Every school I attended, elementary through high school, was minority white, but I’m now attending an elite private college that is 75 percent white. I know who I am, but I realize how people perceive me and this perception feels unfair.
I don’t talk about my feelings because it’s hard to justify doing so while people of color are dying due to systemic racism and making this conversation about me would be again centering whiteness. Yet bottling it up makes me feel an existential anger that I have a hard time channeling since I don’t know my place. Instead of harnessing my privilege for greater good, I’m curled up in a ball of shame. How can I be more than my heritage?
Whitey
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This is serious??? I thought it was a parody. Wow, these people really are pathetic.
It’s satire, yes?
Get a good tan.
Don’t want to click...is this FOR REAL?
Just throwing this out there every chance I get for those that are reading and cheating…….not saying this poster is one, but I don’t know where else to put this very important request. I just pick a comment and post on it. Yes, I am begging. I can’t afford much but anything will help. I want FR to stay alive. Seriously, where else can one get instant info and comments that really help understand the stories. Everyone has a point to make. Again, we need FR. I’m disappointed how slow Jim is getting donations. Please, any amount!
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Are we sure that is not satire? It really cracked me up and I’m absolutely certain it would have had J. Swift rolling on the floor in laughter.
I’d say the ultimate cure is suicide.
Well, the obvious solution is that he should off himself after giving everything he owns away because it was a product of his whiteness. Assuming this is not a fake letter, this individual is a waste of skin and his air should be redirected to a colony of cockroaches which have more value.
Pretty sure walking in South Central LA at night, without clothes on, no weapons, and carrying a bag of money while yelling loudly that you’re doing so, will cure your white guilt right quick.
Stop using illegal drugs and/or alcohol...
I wear a pink vagina cap whenever I feel my white privilege.
I just self identify as black and I don’t feel any of the white shame.
The rabid leftist media always start with a false premise. Maybe they should just take the advice of that new punk on their editorial board, Sarah Jeong.
The PC answer is to give all you extra $$ and possessions to people of color. Problem solved.....sucker.
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