This was on my dashboard, but apparently virjn had a change of heart; because when I try to click on it to read the entire reblog they wrote up, the page came up not found.

But you get the gist of it. The whole, “white apologists who say they aren’t racist because they have a black friend,” non sense.

I don’t context my friends by the color of their skin. I don’t context my friends by their genitals. The notion of “I have friends from all walks of life,” isn’t a means to pat myself on the back, but to stress a point that it bothers me that race baiting assholes mean to put in the heads of people that I care about, who have equally cared about me, that I’m somehow inherently their oppressor because I’m basked in some sort of privilege based on the color of my skin; to get them to contextualize their friends by the color of their skin when they otherwise wouldn’t have. I have a problem with that - because I was bullied as a kid, ergo not having many friends growing up, and take the many, many friendships I have as an adult very seriously.

“i do just love getting people like you riled up. i hope you’re still mad.” It says a lot about a person who loves getting people who just enjoy having friendships with people, and caring about others, riled up. Instead of tackling actual problems of actual racism, they’d rather create problems that aren’t actually there, that have no substance, through twisted logic, and pat themselves on the back as though they’re some sort of “activist”. Enjoy basking in all of your white guilt, as though you’re some kind of hero; while you fail to realize how inherently racist white guilt actually is. Because when it comes down to it, white apologists with white guilt don’t make friends with marginalized people because they see them as people. They will ALWAYS look at race first, contextualizing them, as a feeling of obligation to be friendly with them because they think not doing so makes them racist. Because it’s a stupid idea to treat everyone as a person first, and their color of their skin never - right?

