"It's Time for White People to Reckon with Racism" Article

[SunSpace]

That's a very interesting article on how people need to stop pretending that racism doesn't exist and demand equality.

[boxingfan91]

That's a very interesting article on how people need to stop pretending that racism doesn't exist and demand equality.

How about people start taking responsibility and quit being whining b1tches. This thread is closed

[hectari]

Another feminist Jwish woman telling White people they must feel guilty this is pretty common.

[*TonyMontana*]

I'm white i'm not racist sooooooooo **** you *****

[Chollo Vista]

There are many good white people in this country that fight for equality of all races and ethnicity's.

But, the reality of the matter is this country was built on violence and racism starting with the founding father's.

The police have a difficult job as is, but there are many police that are on a power trip which ruins relations with the community they are there to protect.

The 5% of combatants in the black community responsible for many of the violent crimes also need to be held accountable for their actions. Snoop Dogg, Game, Gucci Mane, Record Labels, Bloods, Crips, Chicago gangs and all the other combatants need to be held accountable and not protected by the communities they destroy.

There are many pieces to the puzzle here, but yes we need to start somewhere

[hectari]

Video: White Boy Privilege Is Everything (8th Grader Wins First Place for This Poem)

14 year old ***ish boy Royce Mann tells whites to feel guilty





Read the poem in its entirety:

Dear women, I am sorry.

Dear black people, I am sorry.

Dear Asian Americans, dear Native Americans, dear immigrants who come here seeking a better life, I am sorry.

Dear everyone who isn’t a middle or upper-class white boy, I am sorry.

I have started life at the top of the ladder, while you were born on the first rung.

I say now that I would change places with you in an instant, but if given the opportunity, would I?

Probably not. Because to be honest, being privileged is awesome.

I’m not saying that you and me on different rungs of the ladder is how I want it to stay,

I’m not saying any part of me for one moment has even liked it that way,

I’m just saying, I ****ing love being privileged and I’m not ready to give that away.

I love it, because I can say “****ing” and not one of you is attributing that to the fact that everyone of my skin color has a dirty mouth.

I love it, because I don’t have to spend an hour every morning putting on makeup to meet other people’s standards.

I love it, because I can worry about what kind of food is on my plate, instead of whether or not there will be food on my plate.

I love it, because when I see a police officer, I see someone who’s on my side.

To be honest, I’m scared of what it would be like if I wasn’t on the top rung.

If the tables were turned, and I couldn’t have my white boy privilege safety blankie to protect me.

If I lived a life by what I lack, not what I have, if I lived a life in which when I failed, the world would say ‘Told you so.’

If I lived the life that you live.

When I was born, I had a success story already written for me. You, you were given a pen and no paper.

I’ve always felt that that’s unfair, but I’ve never dared to speak up because I’ve been too scared.

Well, now I realize that there’s enough blankie to be shared.

Everyone should have the privileges that I have. In fact, they should be rights instead.

Everyone’s stories should be written, so all they have to do is get it read. Enough said.

No, not enough said.

It is embarrassing that we still live in a world in which we judge another person’s character by the size of their paycheck, the color of their skin, or the type of chromosomes they have.

It is embarrassing that we tell our kids that it is not their personality, but instead those same chromosomes that get to dictate what color clothes they wear, and how short they cut their hair.

But most of all, it is embarrassing that we deny this, that we claim to live in an equal country in an equal world.

We say that women can vote? Well, guess what? They can run a country, own a company, and throw a nasty curveball as well. We just don’t give them the chance to.

I know it wasn’t us 8th grade white boys who created this system, but we profit from it every day. We don’t notice these privileges though, because they don’t come in the form of things we gain, but rather the lack of injustices that we endure.

Because of my gender, I can watch any sport on TV and feel like that could be me one day.

Because of my race, I can eat in a fancy restaurant without the wait staff expecting me to steal the silverware.

Thanks to my parents’ salary, I go to a school that brings my dreams closer instead of pushing them away.

Dear white boys, I’m not sorry. I don’t care if you think that feminists are taking over the world, or that Black Lives Matter has gotten a little too strong, because that’s bull****.

I get that change can be scary, but equality shouldn’t be.

Hey white boys, it’s time to act like a woman. To be strong and make a difference. It’s time to let go of that fear.

It’s time to take that ladder and turn it into a bridge.

[SunSpace]

Nice poem; it is indeed time for White people to stand up for equality.

[Enayze]

There are many good white people in this country that fight for equality of all races and ethnicity's.

But, the reality of the matter is this country was built on violence and racism starting with the founding father's.

The police have a difficult job as is, but there are many police that are on a power trip which ruins relations with the community they are there to protect.

The 5% of combatants in the black community responsible for many of the violent crimes also need to be held accountable for their actions. Snoop Dogg, Game, Gucci Mane, Record Labels, Bloods, Crips, Chicago gangs and all the other combatants need to be held accountable and not protected by the communities they destroy.

There are many pieces to the puzzle here, but yes we need to start somewhere

This country was built on hard work and dedication, racism happened to be an economic by product of the South which hundreds of thousands of white people died fighting to abolish it in 1864.

[Chollo Vista]

This country was built on hard work and dedication, racism happened to be an economic by product of the South which hundreds of thousands of white people died fighting to abolish it in 1864.

Yes, the hard free labor of ******.

Let's be real, the Civil War was not about black people, but about national unity.

Lincoln was not passive in his support of slavery even when Union commanders issued orders freeing ****** in captured Confederate territory. Lincoln blocked such orders at least twice.

Lincoln's position as strengthened by the U.S Congress in 1861, when it passed and referred to the states in an ********* to the Constitution that guaranteed that Congress could never abolish black slavery in America. Few northern politicians had any interest in freeing black ******. They were concerned about breaking the wealth and political power base of the South.

Lincoln was President of the Union only. He could not and did not free black ******. The Emancipation Proclamation spoke gloriously about freeing ****** in the deep South, over which the Union had no authority. Yet, it ignored blacks in the border states over which Lincoln did have authority.

The attitude of Lincoln and his administration was succinctly put in Lincoln's letter of December 22, 1860, to Alexander Stephen, soon to become Vice-President of the Confederacy:

"Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a ********** administration would, directly or indirectly, interere with teh slave, or with them, about the ******? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no more danger n this respect than it was in the days of Washington" wrote Lincoln.

Even the British press regarded the Emancipation Proclamation as sheer hypocrisy.

So to answer you statement, yes many whites gave their lives during the Civil War, but it was more for uniting the country and a power struggle for political power and wealth as oppose to being about ******.

[Enayze]

Yes, the hard free labor of ******.

Let's be real, the Civil War was not about black people, but about national unity.

Lincoln was not passive in his support of slavery even when Union commanders issued orders freeing ****** in captured Confederate territory. Lincoln blocked such orders at least twice.

Lincoln's positioni as strengthened by the U.S Congress in 1861, when it passed and referred to the states in an ********* to the Constitution that guaranteed that Congress could never abolish black slavery in America. Few northern politicians had any interest in freeing black ******. They were concerned about breaking the wealth and political power base of the South.

Really few northern politicians had any interest in freeing the black ******? Because they were jealous of the wealth of the south? The south were by far more poor than the north. The heavy industry resided in the northeast, that is the primary reason the Union won. The battle was over states rights, each states right to keep slavery, the Union said no.

Lincoln was President of the Union only. He could not and did not free black ******. The Emancipation Proclamation spoke gloriously about freeing ****** in teh deep South, over which the Union had no authority. Yet, it ignored blacks in the border states over which Lincoln did have authority.

Yet at the conclusion of the war, every single slave whether in the border states or deep south was freed.

The attitude of Lincoln and his administration wa succintly put in Lincoln's letter of December 22, 1860, to Alexander Stephen, soon to become Vice-President of the Confederacy:

"Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a ********** administration would, directly or indirectly, interere with teh slave, or with them, about the ******? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no more danger n this respect than it was in the days of Washington".

Even the British press regarded the Emancipation Proclamation as sheer hypocrisy.

So to answer you statement, yes many whites gave their lives during the Civil War, but it was more for uniting the country and a power struggle for political power and wealth as oppose to being about ******.

The country could've been united after the war and slavery could've still been kept, but it wasn't, no matter what our thoughts are on Lincoln or Emancipation Proclamation, one of the key requirements at the conclusion of the war was for slavery to be abolished.