Another simple but excellent way to understand what "white privilege' is.

[TigressDem]

67. Everytime someone has shown me some way I have any subconscious white shit going on, I thank them.

However, non-specific "white advantage" or whatever IS hard to grasp.

You might look at me and assume I'm racist by whatever clothes I'm wearing, not knowing I can only afford to shop at Wal-Mart or Good Will so sorry, not on purpose. I have no idea what is in someone else's mind if they don't say it.

I was young, in my 20's and got schooled about how when someone beat me from the bus to the job site that she must have been a racehorse in a former life hearkened back to people treating blacks like animals or accusing them of acting like animals. I love animals. Little bit Native American wishful thinking that we can gain some of their strength by learning about them... HAD NO CLUE.

But once the cards were on the table, DOH. Got it. Never seen anyone put a black person down as being an animal, not even on TV or in a movie. Saw a lot of OTHER kinds of awful. Somehow sidestepped it until I myself plopped it down. So I was grateful to learn not to do that.

Also pissed off a skinhead by implying he was an ace repair man who could make anything work with bubblegum and bailing wire. (Jerry Rig.... apparently is a dig on WWII Germans who were called Gerrys vs the US Joes) Implying he didn't have the REAL parts to fix something was like saying he was not able to get the parts due to whatever and that was shameful. Again, I grew up white poor and if you could fix something without spending money, you were damn smart in our book. I apologized for that too and never did that again either.

But I know being married to my husband shields me from abject poverty because his degree and whiteness keeps him employed. He works hard and has since 16 years old. I'm a woman who stands up for the oppressed. Even if I don't open my mouth people can see what I think written on my face. Maybe I've lost a job or two due to that. Good riddance.

I praise God that I have enough clean water to give my cat fresh water when other places in the world that isn't even a consideration. People don't even have it.



I walked down to George Floyd Square again this weekend. Cried my damn eyes out again. For him, for Breonna, for little 2 year olds and Grandmas in Publix getting shot down for NO FU**ING REASON. For all the hate, rage and stupidity out there.


ALL I CAN SAY is WE ARE ONE RACE. The HUMAN Race.
Lots of varieties, otherwise it would be a dull ass world.


But George was one of my own. He lived in my neighborhood. I DON'T GIVE NO F*** that his skin was different than mine. HE WAS MY NEIGHBOR. God tells us to take care of each other and that honkey cop made our neighborhood a place of shame and terror - again. But until I saw it I thought THOSE kind of cops got their as**s handed to them and kicked off the force as a matter of justice.

IT TOOK THE WHOLE WORLD COMING APART AT THE SEAMS to get justice for George and even then it was only a partial win.

I get it. It pisses me off and breaks my heart, but I get it.

If I could go back in time, it would have been me who died. I'd have pushed that cop off George and got myself shot for sure. But it would have been worth it.