voltafiish:

trubr0wn:

coldeyesthatburn:

as a person who went to white ”better” schools all the way up until Middle school.  most of my teachers fucking ignored me most of the time.

I was the only black boy in my class, I was taller than everyone else, pudgy and shy. I was picked on quite a bit. I would tell my teachers and they would ignore it. like completely ignore it. Im remember telling one teacher a girl spat at me and she didnt do sit. so as things escalated I would react. I returned their violence with violence of my own. MY teachers where real quick to respond then. I remember being sent to the principles office for kicking this one girl so hard her precious fairy white skin had a big purple bruise. Mind you I told my teacher this girl creature was kicking me.  The principle asked to speak to my parents and she told them  ” kicked her much harder than she kicked him” and I will ever forget what my mother told that man. ” why was she kicking him in the first fucking place”

so no these white ”better”  schools are not the answer. My brother is currently in a private school because my parents believe this is somehow the best thing for him. My brother gets treated like shit by his coaches gets ridiculed by his teachers, they inform my parents of ever giggle ever eye roll, every day dream. they call/email my parents about my brothers ” behavior” relentlessly but because hes so prideful he works eve fucking harder to try and prove himself to these people. He goes to their functions he tries so hard to blend in with these people and it breaks my fucking heart to see. 

let me break something down real quick

• when my brother graduates there will be around 25 students in his class
• of that 25 students only about 7 are black
• of those 7 that are black 5 are on scholarships
• those 5 that are on scholarships are related before coming to this school
• 2 are my cousins, my brother, and two friends they grew up with

each dealing with the same shit my brother deals with. so no white “better” schools arent the key to any fucking thing

omg thank you thank you THANK YOU for this

“better” schools are fucking hell for PoC. i HATED EVERY FUCKING SECOND of being at a white-dominated (and i’m talking like 99% white) school, teachers didn’t bother to learn my name, & teachers and students alike harassed me. these are not the schools for children of color. not by a LONGSHOT.

thank you. bless this post.

^^^^ Going to a majority white school as a child was terrifying. Having so few people to identify with (there was all of 2 poc teachers ( one who was a black woman and the other a trinidadian woman of Indian descent) on the whole staff) and being so isolated and alienated was horrible. 

Even though I was a “good kid,” I still got in trouble for things the teachers would overlook for other children. High school was no different.

A black friend of mine was horribly picked on and the teachers never did shit. The teachers would even see her getting picked on and never did anything. One day it escalated and a fight broke out between one of the girls who was bullying her, and SHE was suspended for a longer time than the girl bullying her was. :\

Better schools, my ass.

Bi-Racial Hair Poem (via blck-grrl)

I remember watching the video this is from a couple years ago and just trembling. So much truth in this. This is why I do not take it as an inherent compliment when people comment on my mixed race appearance.

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oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:

When will these racist, orientalist, colonialist mindsets stop in regular movies? Stuff like how a white woman went into MOROCCO, not Dubai, and turned out to be the white savoir simply because she went and yelled that she had sex to a bunch of brown men that probably didn’t know that they were being paid to make a point about how terrible they are? Condoms are found in Dubai everywhere!

I am sick and tired of fending questions about how Slumdog Millionaire shows my people. Not only am I Bangladeshi, white people have the gall to ask me why our people don’t take care of our children. White people have the gall to ask if India has a middle class or not. And if you’re not that type of white person, cool, here’s a cookie for being a decent fucking person! But if you derail this post about how I’m generalizing white people because they’re not all like that, I suggest you go write a sob story in your fucking diary because I am not here for that shit.

I am here because movies like The Dictator, Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Eat Pray Love, The Love Guru, The Help, any goddamn movie that shows a PoC is either a) helpless and needs assistance from white people; b) magical little elves that show white people how selfish their life is; c) exotic looking men and women there for a simple love interest between the primitive brown person vs the civilized white person; or d) MOTHERFUCKING TERRORISTS OR TAXI DRIVERS.

WE ARE CONSISTENTLY PUT INTO THESE BACKWARD SHITTY ASS ROLES THAT PUT US INTO STEREOTYPICAL TYPECAST CHARACTERS AND THEN TOLD THAT IT IS THAT WAY BECAUSE WE ARE LIKE THAT. Stereotypes come from truth? No, they come from the mass media spoonfeeding that propaganda into your open and willing mouth because PoC are not real people with real personalities, oh no, we’re just crazy ass motherfuckers that ruin your day with our ethnicities.

Fuck your white savior ass, and fuck going into our countries, filming the people, and shitting all over our culture. Yoga is not a fucking trend. Black women and men have done much more than crying during the Civil Rights Movement. And for crying out loud, Asian women are not your fetishes, and no, you do not have yellowfever, you’re just a creepy ass person who jacks off to creepy ass porn that show Asian women as all being the same.

Fuck you and fuck your ignorance. We are not here for your entertainment. The next time you laugh at a caricature of a sexist brown man in a thobe with bombs strapped around his waist, I suggest you figure your priorities out.

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cosmopolitan-fascist:

thehalalpeniswhisperer:

thisnewscandal:

thehalalpeniswhisperer:

The way people around me consistently tell me what I am has had permanent consequences on my self-confidence and is probably the biggest hurdle I need to get over in my current #existentialism. It might not seem like such a big deal to be ‘Bengali-American’ - at least to me it doesn’t seem like something worth giving a second thought. But to the people around me it never stops being a big issue.

To my cousins I am American. They will stand behind me and mock my accent, mock my stutter, and complain that I don’t have what it takes to be Bengali. When I ask them to speak English and make fun of them back for their atrocious accents they get angry and accuse me of internal racism. It’s pretty much a lose-lose situation with them.

With the Bengali community in Utah, the adults view me as some sort of Bengali beacon who is going to marry a Bengali beauty and make Bengali Muslim children who will all amount to greatness and spread the Bengali seed. Ha. What a joke.

To the white people around me I am an exotic specimen brought forth by Jesus’s blessing. What beautiful skin. OMG is that a hint of an accent I hear? So where were you born again? Wait so what is Burma again? But you’re not like, really American. These are questions that I cannot escape anywhere in the states.

When I’m at Model UN, which is the most professional and open minded environment I have the opportunity to thrive in, people casually ask me where I’m from - never mind what country I’m representing or what my policies are. At Dunkin’ Donuts waiting for the cashier to ring up my Boston Creme and medium coffee? Where are you from again? At the doctors office. Oh my you people are so beautiful what are you?

Like seriously how does who I am or what I am concern any of you? Let’s just agree on one thing: I am Sami.

That is all.

And then white folks say, “But people ask me where I’m from all the time, too! It’s totally not a race thing!!” Really? When people ask you where you’re from, do they get in your face because “Texas” isn’t satisfactory? Do they then proceed to ask where your parents and grandparents are from and question those answers? Do they continue to ask leading questions about your “background,” race, ethnicity, place of birth, accent, religion? Do they push and push until you are so frustrated by the intrusion into your morning coffee break that you throw out any brown country in the hopes they’ll leave you alone (and then, of course, they don’t, because they have so many questions that somehow Google couldn’t answer about that country)? Yeah? I didn’t think so, white folks. Unless you are one of those special snowflake “ambiguously-raced” white folks, no one is ever, EVER going to invade your personal space in order to more accurately stereotype you.

Agreed with the above. At a certain point it can become incredibly exhausting and frustrating to be treated like a walking talking encyclopedia, and then criticized or judged for not having every single answer. Like at the end of the day I was brought up and raised in America - there is only so much you can know about a culture and country when you do not live there, nor visit there regularly.

And yet, I can think of so many examples in various professional environments where people have stopped our work to specifically have me explicate where I am from. It’s happened in group projects, Model UN, College admissions interviews, and even in the middle of class back in high school. “Can someone get a map I want to know exactly where Bangladesh is” “Wait so it IS the Middle East or it isn’t?” “OMG say something in your language idk say ___ is awesome yayyyyy” When all I really want to do is finish our project, go home, and watch some damn TV.

Yes I do realize that as part of a minority community I must accept that people will ask me questions about my background. But there is a time and place for everything, and I wish people exercise a little more decency in when they ask. Also, yeah with Google and Wikipedia just a click away on your phone, do you really need to be asking me all of these questions?

this is a feeling that is rampant particularly among immigrants and asians, as perpetual foreigners, i still get told ‘you speak good english’ when i say i wasnt born here. even the act of being fluent in a language that isnt spanish and regularly communicating to others in it is enough to mark you as foreign forever.

i think this is a very unique characteristic of any ‘asian’ experience, the existential burden of never belonging and the nativism that is implicit in basically everyone who has never had to consider themselves as an immigrant or as an explicit non-american.

http://convention3.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/7/1/9/6/p171962_index.html

(Bolded mine.) For sure. I’ve been assumed to be a foreigner twice in the past month or so even though, to me, I come across as being American in every way possible. Yes, I do speak Cantonese and know certain things about Chinese culture, but I’m also totally fluent in English and quite familiar with aspects of life in America since, you know, I was born and raised here. I don’t appreciate it when others act as if I must be from somewhere else just because I’m not white.

Vic of Das Racist on Trayvon, blackface, and so-called post-raciality.

I just want to pre-emptively say “I see you” to all the white supremacist anti-intellectual hipsterfucks who unfollowed and shit-talked me when I went off about Girls and cultural representation and ranted about Trayvon’s death for a whole fucking month. I fucking see you guys. You’re going to reblog Heems’ post (written by Vic)— more than likely from the Vice Tumblr (run by a super affable, smart person who fucking gets it unlike you apathetic scoundrels)— for a bunch of reasons which have nothing to do with actually giving a fuck about racism and everything to do with a) looking like you understand this, b) cloaking yourself in the warmness of cultural relevance (Das Racist is so cool because Vice and Pitchfork say they’re cool, right?) to assuage your white guilt for a moment, and c) because you’re fucking stupid. I see you and DR sees you, too. That’s why Das Racist will continue making fun of white people at their concerts because they don’t want hipster racists dickriding them to make themselves look cool. You can’t apologize for hipster racists like Gavin McCinnes, Lesley Arfin and Kelly McClure and be a fan of Das Racist. 

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bookishboi:

Rather than go through the same loop of arguing with people over the shit I post, this is my Get With it or Get Lost disclaimer.

Get The Fuck Off My Page If The Following Applies to You:

• If you believe that racism can be against whites 
• If you are transphobic or homophobic
• If you believe that whites can be oppressed
• If you believe that you’re colorblind
• You say or agree with the phrase “We’re all human”
• If you believe that you’re welcome (as a white person) to join in on discussions about POC for POC
• If you believe that having a POC as a friend/partner/fuck-buddy/vague acquaintance makes you immune to being racist
• If you believe in reverse-racism
• If you believe that you should be able to say nigga/any variation “because black people say it”
• If you believe that cultural appropriation is “okay because X, Y, and she looks really pretty with Z on so blah-de-fucking-blah”
• If you see nothing wrong with the OWS movement
• If you can’t handle People of Color being upset about racism, get the fuck off tumblr.

If that hurt your feelings, don’t even entertain the idea of arguing with me about it. I don’t care.

Educate yourself. Here are a few starters that may help.

A Modern Definition of Racism

Racism: The Word and the Definition

More Shit You Should Know

“White people should just shut up and listen if two PoC are talking.”

Decoding Racist Language

Fetishizing People of Color / Dating a POC

A Check On Learning

This tumblr is not, nor will ever be a place designated towards educating people on POC issues and confronting institutionalized racism. I am not Google, Ask Jeeves, or an oracle about POC issues. 

This tumblr is for what I find interesting and relevant to my life. I’m not always polite. I lack much of a filter, especially when I read some shit that rubs me the wrong way. My opinion is not representative of how all POC think (Why the fuck do I even have to say this?). I am merely an individual, much like the rest of us. 

If you have an issue with anything stated in the above, please take my advice. Re: Get The Fuck Off My Page.

witchsistah:

irresistible-revolution:

pragmatic-realist:

political-linguaphile:

irresistible-revolution:

withrevolutionarycries:

talldarkbishoujo:

ethiopienne:

this was some grade-A white woman bullshit

that entire show was grade-A white woman bullshit tbh

this movie should have just been called “Ugly Americans” though

i think the most histerically hypocritical issue with this bullshit film is that they were actually able to travel to Dubai (right?? am i wrong about the place) AND film the movie AND get actors to act in it—-but then spent half the movie talking shit about how conservative and backward and repressive the culture is? THEN HOW GOES YOU FILMING THAT SHIT.

fucking what? only the enlightened/poor folks showed up to play repressed Brown people in your movie.

As someone who grew up in the UAE (mostly in Dubai but I visited Abu Dhabi several times), this shit is not only racist and disrespectful, it’s wildly exaggerated. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are incredibly cosmopolitan, and if some fool ass white woman dropped her condoms and started going off, most Emirati folk (btw, the UAE is almost 90% expatriate populate, so most of the populance isn’t wearing burqas or dishdashas) would just laugh.

Oh, and btw, in the UAE you can buy condoms in the damn store same as the USA.

Signed,

Brown Girl who grew up hot and fashionable and having sex in the UAE.

Reblogging for that ^^^ commentary. 

In other words, conservatism is only evil if white people are conservative. And stone age totalitarianism ought never be criticized. And you people consider yourself brave and strong for “taking a stand” when you’re really just compliant and weak.

‘stone age’ totalitarianism? You kidding me? Did you read a single word I wrote? BTW, white cultural hegemony is repellent whether wielded by conservatives OR liberals. Conservatives want to make us Christians, Liberals want to take yoga classes or wear our sacred regalia as cheap stunts. **shrugs** same shit, different  toilet. We POC are quite capable of critiquing and advocating for change within our own countries, thank you very much, and we don’t need no self-righteous White tourists acting the fool in order to ‘liberate’ us. Please see to your own backyards, or am I just imagining all the ridiculous anti-abortion and anti-birth control measures currently being enacted in the US? Let’s be real, Samantha is more likely to encounter this type of reaction at deeply conservative White Evangelical crowd than in a country of hip young Brown folks who’re doing amazing things so many lightyears ahead of your miniscule perspective you best sit down with your 3D glasses and get ready for a long ass education.

Also regarding ‘progress’, please see Anibal Quijano’s “Colonialities of Power” and the white colonialist myth of linear social progress.

You wanna swing at my hometowns you best come prepared.

Bolding mine for truth.

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mehreenkasana:

zombiejihadi:

mehreenkasana:

Most Saudis, I’m sad to say this, treat Central and South Asians like shit. I’ve seen a shurta nudge an elderly, frail Indian woman with his foot while saying, “Yellah, yellah” with disdain. Another mistreated an elderly Afghan man. It’s strange how they never messed with me. My scowl oozes of disgust. Works like magic against racists.

It’s the truth.

I love my Saudi friends but when my university was flooded with hundreds of Saudi students, I found out how racist many of them really are. The sad thing is that it’s almost like they don’t even realize it. The words they use to describe other POC…I can’t even… And then that one time when one of them argued with my imam and said that Adam (alayhi salam) was not black and that the prophets were sent to Arab lands for a “good reason” meaning Arabs are the best. All I can say is that they sure have come a long way from an Arab not being superior to a non-Arab and now I know why getting through Hajj without getting angry has such a great reward..

That is absolutely right. They address other POC with horrible titles. I was this close to punching them when two Saudi guys pushed an old Somali man around. I’ve seen lots of racism but white racism and Saudi racism are almost equal. It’s even more disappointing since it looks like many racist Arabs - Saudi or not - completely forget the hadith that states that no Arab has superiority over a non-Arab and vice versa except on grounds of taqwa.

riversidearchives:

Certificate of Residence for a Chinese Person in the United States

This is copy of a Certificate of Residence issued to Ah Jeung in 1894 in Portland, Oregon.  Years later, Jeung traveled to Arizona and was arrested for not being in possession of any proof of legal U.S. residency.  Although this copy was sent to the District Courts in Arizona Territory and Jeung testified that he had lived continuously in the United States for about 25 years, he was still found to have been in the United States unlawfully.  On May 5, 1906, a judge presiding over the First Judicial District in Arizona ordered that Jeung be deported.  These Records are held at the National Archives at Riverside.

Observing Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

To pay tribute to the many generations of Asian-Pacific Americans that have enriched our nation’s history, the National Archives at Riverside will be highlighting some of our holdings relating to Asian American history in our region (Southern California, Arizona, and Clark County, NV), including records relating to enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, records relating to Japanese internment and relocation, and many more. 

For more information about Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, see http://asianpacificheritage.gov/

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freedominwickedness:

In other words, there’s a big difference between being privileged and being oppressed in ways which are less severe than other oppressed groups. The only people who have racial privilege are whites; Asians (especially light-skinned East Asians) are generally less oppressed than under the current Western structure than other racial minorities, but that does not make Asians racially privileged.

Also, the scale of relative oppression can change radically over time; prior to around the 1960s, Latinos were the chosen “model minority” and whites gave them special immigration privileges so that white businesses could replace Asian workers with more compliant Latinos.

That’s another one for the erased history books. White business owners felt that Asian workers were problematic because we were very hard workers, but we also had tremendous solidarity and would not put up with abuse. Even as early as the days of the transcontinental railroad, Asian coolies were known for calling strikes over mistreatment and injustice — in particular, all the Asian coolies struck when they found out that the Central Pacific was taking advantage of new workers hired directly from China by paying them far less than those who were hired in the United States.

Look up the history of Asian “Benevolent Associations” sometime; they were basically community organizations, civil-rights organizations, and unions all rolled into one.

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themindislimitless:

Aversive Racism and Police Violence. A cartoon by the sometimes controversial Kirk Anderson highlights the circular thinking that can lie behind race-based prejudice and violence. KIRK ANDERSON.

This keeps happening over, and over, and over.

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mehreenkasana:

My friend’s five-year-old daughter, who lives in the UK, was told by three white kids in her class that they can’t play with her because “she’s a Paki.” She stayed quiet all day in class and came home, burst into tears in front of her mother. The child’s extremely hurt and insulted. At first she didn’t know what “Paki” meant but then one of the kids called her “Paki like dirty dark.” I’d like to take this moment and say two things to the people who tell me we live in a post-racial world and that “racism should be ignored because that’s how it’ll go away”: Fuck. You.

Going to Skype with her tonight and tell her how we don’t need to play with racist white kids. We’ve got better things to do.

africanbeats:

greenactivista:

Please substitue the word “children” for “99 percent of the idiots using the #peace tag on tumblr.”

I always get too angry to articulate why images of malnourished African children bothers me. Why it is racist. Why it’s wrong.

This article above helps.

The way you think about Africa is wrong.

The way you think about the entire world beyond you is probably wrong.

But let’s start with Africa. Because chances are you paid the 30 dollars for that stupid fucking Invisible Children starter kit. That at one point in time you participated in a 30 Hour Famine at church. Or you “adopted” a starving child with a few friends after you saw a 5 minute infomercial. Possibly you really like Bono. Or Blood Diamond made you feel really bad. Hotel Rwanda made you cry. Maybe you have one of those shirts with the heart in the middle of the continent. Or that you really want to internationally adopt an “orphan.”

The way you think about Africa is wrong.

Did you know that the UNICEF definition of orphanhood as the loss of one or both parents. Did you know that children are adopted by white parents all the time when their biological parents are still alive. Did you know that foreign adoptions happen all the time because parents see themselves as too impoverished or incapable to raise their children on their own. Did you know that Madonna, the supposed savior of Malawi, abducted her child because international adoptions aren’t even legal in that country. 

Did you know that the never-ending stream of donations you send to Africa is destroying local economies and small businesses. Did it ever occur to you that your donations are putting people out of business. Did you consider that you might be creating poverty just for participating in a capitalist system that steals from the poor and then throws them whatever is left over and calls it “charity.” Did it never occur to you, while you were donating money and feeling good about it, why it is that your dollar is needed in the first place.

Did you know that organizations like World Vision (the asshats who brought you the 30 Hour Famine) have set up camps for survivors of war and violence in Uganda, where they regularly impose Christian teachings and values through a process called “sensitization,” in order to get survivors to think more like they do. Did it ever occur to you that there are thousands of languages, cultures, and lives that are being homogenized by “charitable” organizations, and that it’s on your dime.

Did you know that money you donate comes with strings, and sometimes it doesn’t even come at all. Did it occur to you that organizations don’t spend their money unless they want to, and that frequently comes with stipulations. Did you consider that maybe there are places in Africa and elsewhere that really need your money or economic support, but don’t give a fuck about your hegemonic religious values. Did you have any clue that organizations like Invisible Children take in millions of dollars annually, but don’t even spend a third of it in Uganda.

Did you have any idea that countless charities, hospitals, adoption agencies, etc., set up in Africa are illegal, and done without credence to national or local government. Have you heard of volunteer tourism? Did you have any idea that completely untrained and uneducated people are hauling ass to Africa, and building charities that board, educate, and treat young children illegally with absolutely zero recognition of the law of the land in which they are in.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe some people in Africa are doing just fucking fine. They have a house. They own shoes. They have parents and siblings and food and an education and a favorite restaurant and hobbies and ambitions and a happy life. Did you consider that maybe your stupid generalizations and conceptualizations bother and insult them, and make it more difficult to be them.

Did you ever consider that Africa is a living, breathing continent of millions of people who are different. Economically, socially, religiously, lingually, culturally, ethnically different. And that your stupid fucking pictures of malnourished kids, your idolization of Angelina Jolie and Madonna, your ridiculous Invisible Children bracelet, your idiotic KONY 2012 posters are racist. They’re simplifying a place that is not simple. They’re portraying an enormous continent as singular, backward place. Instead of more complicated than you have ever bothered to understand.

You operate autonomously, offering your “help” where it has not been asked for. Blindly donating your dollars and your time without having any idea how it is being spent. 

There are people there. Governments. Cities. There are people living their lives in a continent that you do not understand, but you claim to help.

This rant was long-winded but I’ll conclude.

Just please if you take nothing else away from this. Be critical of the shit you are fed. Africa is a continent. And at least take the time to learn about it before you even consider throwing money or used books or Toms sneakers at it.

-written by greenactivista

I am now officially in love with whoever wrote this!

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daisysnotebook:

maxvoluntarist:

ladyatheist:

[Anon, why the fuck would you say you are colorblind? That is ignorant as shit. You don’t see black people, everyone looks the same? Bullshit. You can’t deny a person’s race or racial differences. That isn’t the opposite of racism. That contributes to racism by saying I don’t see race you deny who that person is. It is about accepting every person no matter what their race is, not pretending race doesn’t exist.]

Seriously? Ignoring race promotes racism? Actually identifying people by their race promotes racism. Treating people as individuals will defeat racism. But you know, “white people”.

Max, you’re missing the entire point. This isn’t about individual white people, and it’s certainly not a personal attack on you. It also has nothing to do with treating others as individuals with unique experiences and sentiments. 

We’re libertarians. We treat others as individuals and not just as members of certain races. We should not hold to harmful stereotypes, and we should recognize that each person is a unique entity. Nevertheless, it’s important for even libertarians to be aware of the racial disparity in this country, Max. Many laws and policies in this country are heavily weighed against minorities— especially low-income ones. I know you’re going to say that it’s the state’s doing, and that’s a problem, but it doesn’t matter in this discussion! The bottom line is that there are factors which make race an issue, and statism is one of them.

We live in a world where people do discriminate based on race, where the state does enact policies (like the Drug War and Capital Punishment) that ruins the lives of POCs and put them at an unfair disadvantage. 

No white person should feel guilty; nobody wants you to feel bad about any of this. But when you say that you don’t see race, you may think that you’re being an individualist, but it’s a lot more than that. To not “see” race is to turn a blind eye on the racial disparities in this country. People do suffer on a daily basis because of their “race” and sometimes it has life and death consequences.

Be aware of color, but don’t treat others as only members of groups. Treat them as individuals with their own personal characters, but recognize what some people must go through solely because of their race. 

Did that make sense? You can be aware of the racial issues in this country and still be perfectly libertarian. It takes awareness to change things and improve the lives of people.

Reblogged for the photo and Daisy’s commentary. I really do not understand why some people insist on being colorblind and believing we live in a postracial America, because colorblindness does not work and America is so not postracial.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m Chinese and I want everyone to know it. That doesn’t mean I’m going to make a big deal out of it, but you have to realize that being a first-generation Chinese American means that I have a worldview and life experiences that have been informed by my cultural background. When you deny my race, you are denying what makes me who I am. That’s not treating me as an individual, nor is that treating me as an equal. It’s wrong, and you need to stop.