Dear Whiny White People: Great rant from a Native American Facebook friend

[JAbuchan08]

235. except the OP doesn't make that distinction

and NOTHING about the OP is "factual" its a bunch of rules made up to define what is and isn't acceptable for white people as a group to take offense at. When people call me a cracker with a vituperative tone I get angry, when I'm told I'm "acting white" for following the rules and trying to act ethically within my job (implying that 'acting white' in this way is a negative thing) or when I'm told to STFU because I might have a different perspective on an issue involving race, I get upset because I'm being devalued as a person based on my race.

What's going through my head is neither "As a white person I have it worse than minorities" nor "minorities have historically had it worse so I should just suck it up" what I'm thinking is: "this person is being an asshole to me right now, and it's because of the color of my skin."

I'm not trying to make common cause with conservatives who believe racism ended with the election of Barack Obama or that white people are now an oppressed minority. What I AM saying is that simply acknowledging that, yes, white people have feelings too, and (outside of the predictable self flagellators) a lot of us DON'T like being subject to insults either predicated on, or motivated by our race, does NOT erase racism against African Americans, nor do I expect it to.

Acknowledging that "cracker" can be offensive when said in a spiteful tone does not wipe out the history of the Atlantic Slave trade and I'm not ASKING for it to.

Think about that.