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ladyatheist:

I’m reblogging this again to make one more point. When you don’t teach your children when they’re young about stereotypes and racism and how that is harmful to others, this is what can happen. No, you may not be a card carrying member of the KKK, but that doesn’t mean you’re magically not perpetuating racist behavior.

Racism is more than bombing churches and burning crosses. It’s more than just segregated schools and slavery. It’s the more subtle things too. It’s the way you grip your purse when a Black man walks into an elevator with you. It’s the security guard who follows the Black and Brown children and adults around the store. It’s the way you look for the first PoC to ask them where something is in the store (because they obviously work there). It’s the way you put feathers in your hair and slather paint on your face and call yourself “Pocahontas’ slutty sister”. It’s the way you say you “wish you could be a g**sy for a day”.

Racism in it’s more subtle forms needs to be taught. It is of vital importance that it is taught. If it isn’t, you end up with a generation of children who think that just because they’re not burning crosses and they have a few Black “friends”, they can say anything they want to.

ladyatheist:

You talk about this kind of thing a lot on here so I figured it would be of interest. Most kids at my school talk a lot like these girls and I think it’s a really good example of the racism in highschools that stays with people when they enter the adult world.

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While I don’t approve of the death threats, I’m very glad that something was actually done about this. We need to start showing people that there are consequences for your actions. You put out a racist ass video for the whole world to see, please believe there is going to be some push-back.

If you watch the video, take particular notice at around the 6 minute mark. That’s when they start to talk about their two Black friends. The girl closest to the camera takes particular care to note that he’s “so black that if it was dark outside you couldn’t see him” and that he “makes fun of his race” all the time. The other girl mentions a Jamaican girl they know who “doesn’t consider herself Black”. They both go on to note how “white” both of them act. This is the problem with tokenism. These two Black children befriended these white girls, and now they’re being used to justify their racism. You want to know why Black people side-eye the hell out of white people who claim they have Black “friends” or want to be our “friends”? There you go.

I’m fucking loving the non-apology apologies. The first girl almost had it right. Almost. She fucked up when she said “I’m not a racist person” and “I don’t see someone for their skin color only and hate them”. Yes she is and yes she does. Just because she doesn’t like what she did, that doesn’t mean she can now deny it.

The second “apology” was just all fucked up. For one, the second girl’s mother wrote it. Her mother wasn’t the one in the video, therefore she’s not the one who should be writing an apology. If she really wants her daughter to learn something, she needs to stop babying her and let her take full responsibility for her actions. That includes issuing an apology herself. Of course near the end came the whole “we’re not like that, we know all types of different people” excuse. I am so sick of hearing that bullshit every time someone does something racist.

Also, in both apologies they say “we weren’t raised like that” and “I don’t know where this came from”. I’m smelling major bullshit there. A 14 minute racist rant doesn’t come from nowhere. That is learned behavior. When someone utters the sentence “there are n***ers who are ignorant fucks who are doing nothing with their life”, you know for a fact that they have been thinking this way for a very long time. Both of those families need to get together and do some soul searching because something has gone terribly wrong.