white privilege
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#BrooklynBecky Exposes 'Wokewashed' White Supremacy
“You’re standing on public property, ma’am. This is not public property,” starts the now-viral #BrooklynBecky video. The 19-year-old white woman of Puerto Rican heritage, who uses the name “Bella” on social media, directed her confused statement to Darsell Obregon, as she called the police on her. Why did Brooklyn Becky alert the authorities? For Obregon’s…
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#BrooklynBecky: Cops Called on Suspicious-Looking 'Black' Woman Waiting for Uber in the Rain
A recent video of a white woman calling the police on a woman for standing in a likely gentrified Brooklyn building’s doorway highlights the black community’s unawareness of a set of secretly ratified constitutional amendments guaranteeing Colonizer-Americans the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of unapologetic whiteness. On July 25, Facebook user Darsell Obregon…
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How to Use Your White Privilege the Right Way
When bigotry abounds, it’s easy to get frustrated and want to give up (particularly on white people), but every now and then, someone steps up and demonstrates how one can use white privilege the right way—to right the wrongs of racism and demand that white people to do better. Celebs like Anne Hathaway, Matt McGorry…
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Blindspotting Is the Perfect Metaphor for Implicit Bias
What are your blind spots? When you see a black person in a white neighborhood, do you question what they are doing there? When you see a white person in a black neighborhood, do you assume they are gentrifying? What if they’ve lived there all their life? What if they actually do belong there? Is…
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Florida Couple Grins for Drug Arrest Photo Following Police Chase … And Whew, Chile, the Privilege
What happens when peak Florida meets peak caucasity meets peak privilege? This photo op with two grinning drug suspects and the cops who managed to arrest them without anyone even sustaining a scratch as an injury. Seriously, it would be almost laughable if black people weren’t being beaten up (in the best case scenario) for…
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Antwon Rose Jr. and When White Privilege Kills Black People
The funeral for Antwon Rose Jr. took place Monday morning at Woodland Hills Intermediate School in Swissvale, a borough that sits several miles east of Pittsburgh. Like the East Pittsburgh borough where Rose was killed, Swissvale is one of at least a dozen different intersecting municipalities that Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs consist of. I went to…
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From White Privilege to White Tears: #PermitPatty Sobs That She Really Didn’t Mean for Police to Come
The same white woman who used her white-woman privilege first to bully an 8-year-old black girl who was selling water and then to call the police on said little black girl for being noncompliant is now pouring out her white-woman tears in the aftermath of the incident and wants everyone to feel sorry for her.…
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The Oppression of White America
White people are oppressed. Stop laughing. It’s true. In recent years, a narrative has formed and spread among the masses that asserts that white people in America are being subjected to reverse racism, ridicule, public scorn and discrimination. Before attempting to examine (and ultimately dismantle) this preposterous hypothesis, we should acknowledge all the ways in…
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Whiteness Is a Superpower
All superheroes are white. Superman is white. Spider-Man is white. Batman is white. Wonder Woman is white. But I’ve never wanted to be white. For a lactose-intolerant person like me, whiteness is like cheeseburgers, tacos and vanilla ice cream: I recognize that the world considers them to be appealing and delicious, but they have made…
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This Is How You Use Your Privilege, Part 2: ‘Your Silence Is Your Discrimination,’ Says Jessica Chastain
“When you know better, you do better,” or so the saying goes. Sometimes—most times—it takes someone with privilege to enact change for everyone else. In January, actress Jessica Chastain made headlines when she advocated for equal pay for fellow actress and friend Octavia Spencer, addressing the persistently deep pay disparity for women of color. As…