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Topic | Light-skinned black person privilege is now a thing |
Sephiroth1288 03/26/17 10:07:09 AM #1: | http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/02/light-skinned-privilege/ Not content to unite against just one racial oppressor, SJWs are now beginning to divide people within the "marginalized groups" they claim they support consider this “close call” a white friend and I had with the police as truant high-schoolers. We had been smoking pot in a public space, and the white officer was responding to a report. I was terrified. But he gave us a brief lecture, smashed my pipe on the pavement, took our information, and let us go. I know how the police would have responded to this call had it involved two of my darker skinned brothers. I have seen it. I have seen them stopped for no reason aside from their complexion, questioned with their backs against the wall and their hands up. ^ Couldn't be that the police officer was just not a racist. And it also couldn't be that her brothers were stopped for a reason and she's using them as justification for this article. I recently wrote about recognizing our privilege as members of marginalized communities. I spoke about how, although I belong to an oppressed racial group as a Black person, I often benefit from my light skin in many spaces. Clearly, being born with lighter skin was not something that I chose (just as being born white was not something those benefiting from white privilege chose), but I must recognize how I am privileged within my own community of folks. For other light-skinned folks – this shit is messy, and I’m asking you to hold some really complicated (and sometimes contradictory) concepts! It is true that “team light skin” and “team dark skin” is bullshit. It is true that it can really hurt to have the core our identity questioned by our own people. It is true that we are also impacted by the effects of racism and other forms of oppression. And it is also true that we are given unfair privilege in all Black and all people or color spaces, and in greater US society, and we need to be aware of that. Yup, you heard it here from Everydayfeminism, folks. Check your privilege, light-skinned minorities. --- The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. Friend Code: 2723-9696-7248 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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