“My feelings were hurt”
I bet she never forgot a paper and pencils for the rest of her life.I’m sorry I agree with this exercise but not the commentary. As a white “blue - eyed” women I certainly don’t understand completely the experiences of every individual in this world (race, gender, religion, nationality, etc) The whole point of the exercise is to show people how oppressive society works, the environment it creates. To take someone from one environment to another radically different social environment can be traumatizing exercise or not. I have participated in these exercises before and they are frustrating, I am not defending anyone’s actions. I am not trying to be an apologist. I think these exercises are valid. Yet to mock someone for their response? It makes you no better than the oppressors that this whole exercise condemns. You are creating and perpetuating the system.
I’m mocking the shit out of that dumb white heffa for not being able to handle a fucking hour exercise of 1/5th of the daily shit PoC go through.
MOCKING.
LAUGHING.
I WILL SEE HER WHITE TEARS IN MY SLEEP AND COLLECT THEM TO SEASON MY ANIMAL-BLOOD-DEATH STEAK.
You know what’s fucking wild? Middle school, the white teachers would talk to us just like the teacher in this video talked to that white girl and I never thought nothing of it til now.
Right, I remember in 4th grade, the teacher had us all do reports on states, and mine was Alaska, so I’d literally just learned that Alaska was the largest state, over 2x the size of Texas.
The teacher said Texas was the largest.
I corrected her.
Let me give you a hint at how much white teachers hate being corrected by little black chilrens.
It’s A LOT.
Same here. All throughout middle school those white teachers made it a point to try and make me feel dumb. High school too, and even college. And white professors hate being shown up by Black students. My English 1101 professor failed me for having good diction.
Literally, on my thesis paper it said “I don’t think these words are yours, the vocabulary is too broad.”
And people wonder why I quit going to that racist ass school.
And they wonder why Black folks “don’t value education.”
Right? Why value an education in which the educators are the same people who don’t want you to be educated in the first place?
Not like I needed to take that damn English class, anyway. I could write circles round that Confederate-flag toting old bat.
So much truth, I was talking to my counselor the other day about how sometimes I feel I can’t speak out on things in which I know SO MUCH ABOUT because of the looks I get. “SORRY I KNOW MORE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT YOURE SUPPOSED TO BE A GENIUS AT… dayum.
(via queer-core)
