N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:
romanP romanP:
i've never said i'm not a racist.
Well, no, but you did say everybody else was. Well everybody except Black Lives Matter, of course.
Black Lives Matter is an anti-racist movement. it is a movement by Black folks, for Black folks. you can join the movement if you want, but you'll have to learn how to let Black folks lead, leave your racist attitude behind, and confront those same attitudes in other white people.
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I've decided I want to join your club. You didn't answer my secret handshake question so I'm assuming anybody can join.
So basically we just find people who disagree with us and call them racists, right? Cool, cause the Prog thing doesn't seem to be working for me anymore.
i don't belong to any club. if you genuinely want to help end racism, you educate yourself about what racism is, and stop saying racist garbage. you'll have to learn how to shut up and listen when Black folks are talking. but you'll still be a racist, because you're white and born with the privilege of not seeing the violence caused by ignorance of that privilege. you'll still express racism without knowing it. i do all the time. i grew up in a very racist family, and have a lot to unlearn because of that experience. part of my work as a white person who recognises the violence caused by racism is to tell other white people when they are saying and doing things which are racist, because People of Colour should never have to explain their oppression to you.
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I'm confused though. You say we can't call the arsonists in Black Lives Matter arsonists cause they're black and black people don't burn their own stuff down. (Except when they do like they did in Ferguson, of course, but I'm guessing it's a club rule we can't notice that.)
Black folks weren't burning their own stuff down, they were burning down white businesses. the KKK has a strong influence with white people in Ferguson, and the police force, and the courts, are full of them. when white supremacists have committed extreme acts of violence against Black communities, the response has always been to either arm the community, destroy white property, or both.
why do you think the KKK wear hoods?
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So am I allowed to notice Black Lives Matter bigwig Shaun King is white?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/family-membe ... -is-white/first time i've heard of him, not the first time a white person has tried to claim they were Black. it takes no credibility from the movement, and actually proves its need to continue, when white people appropriate Black identity.
Black Lives Matter does not have a solitary leader, or an hierarchic structure, so it doesn't really make sense to call anyone a "bigwig".
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Or will I get kicked out of our, "Disagree-ers are Only Racist Klub (DORK)" Except you can't kick me out of DORK once I'm in, cause if you do you're a racist. It's in the rules. I know, cause I just wrote them.
this is not a matter of opinion or disagreement with opinions. it is a matter of racists repeatedly erasing Black folks' lived experience and history. sometimes you need to stop having opinions and shut up and listen to what people are saying about how violence affects them.