If you want to understand how offensive&stupid racism is, every time you see a racist complaining about "black/brown/coloured" ppl, imagine he/she's speaking about the person's eye colour.
Does it define the person?
Does it define the person?
Is there a "brown eye" culture threatening "other eye colour" culture?
Someone's skin colour isn't a "culture".
Eye/skin colour can be the same when the culture is different.
But oppression against an eye/skin colour *creates* a common culture. A common suffering. A resistance.
Someone's skin colour isn't a "culture".
Eye/skin colour can be the same when the culture is different.
But oppression against an eye/skin colour *creates* a common culture. A common suffering. A resistance.
Inequality creates a culture of resistance, a will to establish a bond between people sharing the same suffering. The same history. But it's an artificial culture, a reaction to something that was imposed unto them.
Denying their actual identity because of their appearance.
Denying their actual identity because of their appearance.
I'm not defined by my eye colour, or my skin colour. No one is. My eye/skin colour gives no indication about who I am.
It shouldn't make a difference
I've only experienced proxy racism. It's unbearable.
And invisible when you're not confronted to it.
It shouldn't make a difference
I've only experienced proxy racism. It's unbearable.
And invisible when you're not confronted to it.
First step is to shut up and listen. Experience by proxy.
And speak out as fellow human beings.
It's not about clan X against clan Y, it's about all of us against ignorance and stupidity.
We are what we do, with what we're given.
Nothing else should matter
And speak out as fellow human beings.
It's not about clan X against clan Y, it's about all of us against ignorance and stupidity.
We are what we do, with what we're given.
Nothing else should matter
Man/Woman beating/killing another: Bad.
People demonstrating for men/women not to be beaten/killed: Good.
People taking it as an opportunity for looting: Bad
People around them: Not the looting people, don't shoot them.
Whatever their eye colour.
People demonstrating for men/women not to be beaten/killed: Good.
People taking it as an opportunity for looting: Bad
People around them: Not the looting people, don't shoot them.
Whatever their eye colour.
