Ten Ways (not all!) White Liberals Perpetuate Racism

[Number23]

73. Great piece, b! I love the bit about "microinvalidations" which I mentioned in another thread

A white Sanders supporter was practically begging other white Sanders supporters to stop comparing Sanders to MLK or trying to use MLK to prop up Sanders. It was astonishing to me the number of people who were actually angry that someone asked them to stop doing something so ignorant, offensive and counter-productive.

So here we have a white Sanders supporter (rightfully) calling out the behavior and actions of other white Sanders supporters telling them that they were doing something offensive and the response was basically "we don't care" or even better, "it's only making people uncomfortable because it's TRUE."

That was a classic example of a microinvalidation. Alot of white people are unfortunately, very good at dismissing the concerns of poc which is why we have asked so many clued in whites to serve almost as emissaries to white people. But this was an example of a white person saying something that was about as big a no-brainer as you could get to his fellow whites and they just brushed it off. Like "if our stealing the hero of a marginalized community for political purposes upsets members of that community, then that's too bad." It was unreal. And we see this kind of crap EVERY SINGLE DAY. And like the author said, this is why racism will not die.

Thanks for posting this.