visambros:

earljrsmith: as a white person i apologize As a black person, I say that you don’t need to apologize. You should not be held accountable for what your ancestors did. They did bad things to people, but you didn’t. You also shouldn’t feel as though you aren’t allowed to have problems. Just because society leans toward favouring white people, doesn’t mean your life is perfect and stress free. You don’t need to feel bad for being born the race you are. No one should.

I’m sorry, but this, this is a bullshit point.

One white apology is not going to erase or make-up for hundreds and hundreds of years of subjugation, systematic oppression, slaughter, and genocide wrought by their ancestors on my or many other people of color’s ancestor(s).

If 二楼 (second poster) wants to “forgive” white people of the hideousness that they continue to benefit by their mere existence than that is their deal, but it is NOT a good point, and I do not agree that they should not be held accountable for the actions of their ancestors, especially when they are benefiting from them on a daily basis and people of color are continuously subjugated to the racism that their ancestors instituted and codified. This sort of post-racial/occidentalist/gharbzadegi nonsense is just as guilty of helping keep racism alive and well.

One’s race is not something that one can choose, but you can choose to utilize or recognize and do your damnedest to do something constructive about your race privilege. This is the same as having class consciousness.

Please carefully consider all of this

(via dqwes-blog)