thesidesithoughtiknew:

Recently, I’ve seen a shit load of posts stating that all white people are racist and that black people can’t ever be racist, because they are the only ones that have ever been oppressed.

Well, let me prove you wrong.

As we all know during WWII Hitler decided to exterminate Jews. Also as we all know most of them lived in eastern european countries, especially Poland. Now, what most of us know is that millions of them were put into concentration camps. Yes, that’s right. But I can bet that 90% of people don’t realize that Hitler did not only decide to exterminate Jews, he also decided to exterminate Slavs (generally, people from countries like Poland, Ukraine, Bielarus, Lithuania and so on). I believe that we all realize that these people are white. I can not speak for other countries, but I can speak for polish people. Thousands of polish people were killed in camps. Thousands of them were sent away (around 900 000 people and I don’t even talk here about part that was sent to Siberia by Stalin). And you all need to understand that even if we were risking our own lives we were helping each other. A lot of polish families were risking everything, so they could help Jews.

What you need to realize is that Hitler’s ideas were clearly racist. He decided to exterminate millions of people, because he thought that they are sub-human.

It really kills me, when I read all posts written by black people stating that whites are evil and they are the one who were always oppressing other races. No. Some white people were as oppressed as black people used to be. I do not deny your experiences. I do not want to play oppression olympics and say that either you or us had it worse. I just think that you need to realize that you are lacking some basic knowledge.

If you state that your fight against racism is international then think outside the United States. Think and learn about all people, not only about POC. Racism can be experienced by anyone, no matter skin colour. Racism is not only about black people.

As long as I agree that yes, white people have certain privileges over POC, I will never agree that only we can be racist and that only POC were oppressed. It is wrong on so many levels.

If you really want to fight for equality, if you really want to talk about racism, first you need to learn. Learn, learn and learn. And listen to other people. Don’t generalize the whole race.

I see where you come from. I want to listen to you and I want to understand your point of view. But, let’s face it. Racism is less of the problem now than it used to be 60 years ago. I know that you want people to remember, I know that you want people to realize how oppressed your race was. That’s obvious, we can not just let everyone forget. I just don’t think that hate and arguments are right in this situation. If I wanted I’d now dislike all Germans and say: well, Hitler decided to exterminate thousands of polish, Germans are bad people, I will always treat them as shit for what they’ve once done. But I won’t do that, because I realize that if we really want to work things out, we need to talk like civilzed people. We need to listen to each-other and we need to validate each-others opinions and feelings. That’s the only way.

So please. Stop saying that white people can not be oppressed. Stop saying that all of us are racist. You are not right in everything just because you are black and american.