Good and Reckless and True

October 28, 2010 11:02 pm
What If the Tea Party Were Black?

circusfolk:

(via stfuconservatives)

Imagine that even one-third of the anger and vitriol currently being hurled at President Obama, by folks who are almost exclusively white, were being aimed, instead, at a white president, by people of color… How many [whites] would be calling for further crackdowns on thuggish behavior, and investigations into the radical agendas of those same people of color?

…Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it…  Rush Limbaugh [said], this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary, common Americans stood up for their rights: a statement that erases the normalcy and “American-ness” of blacks in the civil rights struggle, not to mention women in the fight for suffrage and equality, working people in the fight for better working conditions, and LGBT folks as they struggle to be treated as full and equal human beings.

And this, my friends, is what white privilege is all about.

(Submitted by importantlgbtstuff)

(Source: stfuconservatives)

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