lieutenantkatiejensenofficial:

lordtakason:

gorlt: it’s 2014 can we please stop pretending like it’s just a small majority of white people who are racist like please watch the news read a history book Its 2014 can we stop doing this thing where we stereotype based on skin colour?

okay i need you to listen to me very very carefully because as a more or less typical white girl i kind of know what i’m talking about when i say most of us are racist

and it’s highly inappropriate to come onto a post that was likely made in a moment of someone’s pain and turn it around and make it about ourselves.

the fact is we are born in a society that favors us for our white skin, and EVEN IF, despite being born here, we are actively engaged in not being racist jerks, we still benefit from our whiteness. the more likely scenario is that we commit little injustices every day based in racism that we may not even aware of.

instead of coming onto posts like this and turning it around from what OP is saying - which is to stop living in denial and learn about how we’re often doing real damage to people of color - you and i and other white people need to make a commitment to change our behavior and our thinking so that we stop hurting people of color.

if you have any more questions i’m glad to answer them to the best of my knowledge but please ask me privately because OP doesn’t need to have their post dragged through the mud.