Friday, May 30, 2008

White Privilege

The way I see it, shit's gotten way worse in our society since the civil rights era. Any minority bringing up race is going to get attacked by white folks no matter what, and any white person bringing up race is going to get attacked by colored folks no matter what.

Instead of looking at these issues with change and improvement in mind, people are stuck playing the "you're race has it better than mine" game. People seem to fight over who gets oppressed more, but the fuckin point is that WE ARE ALL oppressed, just at different levels. The bottom line should be to unite and destroy the system that oppresses ALL of us, but instead, people fight amongst each other arguing over stupid shit.

The fact that de facto racism is hardly seen in public anymore doesn't change the fact that institutions continue to manifest ideologies that go back to the times of the conquerors of Europe. It also doesn't change the fact that white people talk amongst themselves and continue to be racist, just not out in the open.

Look at the prison system and the school system and show me how things are changing for the better...

And like I said, don't take what I wrote as a personal attack on the white people of this country. They are oppressed by the same system that oppresses me, it just oppresses us at different levels and that creates division within the working class and absolutely no unity, which helps continue the cycle because the fight is a fight for all people of this country and not just blacks by themselves fighting for black rights and Mexicans fighting for their rights. It's about the elites manipulating the global economy to only help themselves and their strategies to keep the masses divided.

This issue in America is class, but race is entangled in it and has been from the very formation of this country. If you believe that the issue in America is purely class with absolutely no race involved, than I strongly disagree with you.

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