"I will have an undergraduate class, let’s say a young white male student, politically-correct, who will say: “I am only a bourgeois white male, I can’t speak.” … I say to them: “Why not develop a certain degree of rage against the history that has written such an abject script for you that you are silenced?” Then you begin to investigate what it is that silences you, rather than take this very determinist position-since my skin colour is this, since my sex is this, I cannot speak… From this position, then, I say you will of course not speak in the same way about the Third World material, but if you make it your task not only to learn what is going on there through language, through specific programmes of study, but also at the same time through a historical critique of your position as the investigating person, then you will have earned the right to criticize, you be heard. When you take the position of not doing your homework- “I will not criticize because of my accident of birth, the historical accident” - that is the much more pernicious position."

--Gayatri Spivak

(via WYSIWYG)

THIS.

"The thing that sucks about Girls and Seinfeld and Sex and the City and every other TV show like them isn’t that they don’t include strong characters focusing on the problems facing blacks and Latinos in America today. The thing that sucks about those shows is that millions of black people look at them and can relate on so many levels to Hannah Horvath and Charlotte York and George Costanza, and yet those characters never look like us. The guys begging for money look like us. The mad black chicks telling white ladies to stay away from their families look like us. Always a gangster, never a rich kid whose parents are both college professors. After a while, the disparity between our affinity for these shows and their lack of affinity towards us puts reality into stark relief: When we look at Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, we see people with whom we have a lot in common. When they look at us, they see strangers."

--Cord Jefferson, Hipster Racism Runoff And The Search for The Black Costanza

(via Racialicious)

...This might actually sum up most of my problem with pop culture. Wow. 

#everybodywannabeaniggabutdon'tnobodywannabeanigga

Reblogged from Tudo Bom(b)

Fact: I've never watched The Office.

But this guy's name is evidently Oscar, and he is on point.

Reblogged from Tudo Bom(b)

White privilege is not having a specific category for porn.

--new model minority

(via come correct) 

"Reverse racism” is like getting a lifelong blowjob and complaining when your partner decides they don’t want to swallow anymore.

-This is White Privilege

(via Lavender Labia) 

#realtalk

What is the most honest way to address privilege short of cursing out colleagues and friends? How do we examine the overlapping oppression among our peer activists who, apparently, are unaware (or unabashed) of the other forms of white privilege they possess?

--Livication over at The Intersection of Madness and Reality

"White Solipsism"

(n.) The tendency "to think, imagine, and speak as if Whiteness described the world."

--Adrienne Rich, as cited in Elizabeth Spelman's Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought, pg. 116

*clears throat, as if preparing to say something profound*

Fuck. that. shit.  

Whoa, an ad campaign explaining white privilege?

Reblogged from el odio por amor

#WhiteGuysWhoCouldGetIt

This dude who so perfectly explains white privilege and why Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls ISN'T FUCKING RACIST. It's just the first time white people see themselves being stereotyped and misappropriated in something this popular.