Race, privilege, resentment
Oct. 6th, 2008 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's a lot of really good stuff in the comments of this post (though I gritted my teeth through the actual post):
http://gratefuladdict.livejournal.com/19551.html
Which leads to a couple of essential essays:
http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html
http://blindprivilege.com/white-trash-blues-class-privilege-v-white-privilege/
EDIT: The first entry has been locked. I asked the poster to consider unlocking it; if she ever does I will come back to it, because I'd love to discuss it with you guys.
http://gratefuladdict.livejournal.com/19551.html
Which leads to a couple of essential essays:
http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html
http://blindprivilege.com/white-trash-blues-class-privilege-v-white-privilege/
EDIT: The first entry has been locked. I asked the poster to consider unlocking it; if she ever does I will come back to it, because I'd love to discuss it with you guys.
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Date: 2008-10-06 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-06 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-06 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-06 07:59 pm (UTC)The colorline is a big, awful divide. I grew up poor. But I'm white, I have white privilege. No one looks at me and immediately thinks my parents couldn't afford rent every month. They don't follow me around the store, thinking I'm a shoplifter (or look at me like I might have a gun in my purse). No cop would just shoot me out of the blue b/c I'm sleeping in my car (that event happened in Riverside, CA, actually, about 12 blocks from where I lived when I went to UCR).
Being Black in America is a crime. And that is wrong. I do not have patience for White people who don't get that. Which is why I mostly stay away from those types of posts...
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Date: 2008-10-06 09:42 pm (UTC)I don't have any patience for it either. People are stilled judged by the color of their skin, there have been plenty of examples of that. Things aren't even or fair, and if there are policies that can help to correct some of those wrongs I think they are essential.
I grew up in Riverside, but wasn't in Riverside when that shooting happened. I remember the controversy though and that nothing happened to the officers. (If it's the same one I'm thinking of (Tyesha Miller?)
Great post.
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Date: 2008-10-06 09:46 pm (UTC)I can't remember whether I was living there when it happened or whether it happened right after we'd moved.
Living in Riverside was a HUGE eye opener for this Northern CA-ite! But I have to say living in Alabama has been even more eye-opening.