Comments on: It’s Morning In America

By: Angel H.

Angel H. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:28:30 +0000

@Angel: You don’t know anything about me, so it’s a pretty silly thing for you to assume that I am “privillaged”. I just visited your blog profile, and judging by your photo, you’re VERY healthy (I’m not), have a nice salon hair-do (I can’t afford such things) & you have a digital camera (I don’t even have one of those. LOL). I’ll bet you have a nice job too, don’t you? And maybe even a nice car?

#1: I’d heard about diagnosing people by simply looking at their picture, but I’d never actually seen it done before. Bravo! [/sarcasm]

#2: Salon, my ass. I spend 6 hours twisting my own locks, fuck-you-very-much.

#3: The 7 year old camera was on loan from my dad.

#4: I’m paid barely above mininum wage to work in an environment where I’m in constant contact with rapists, murders, and the mentally- and emotionally-disturbed. But my 16-year old, eBay car is the envy of the whole damn city, and I just had my electricity turned off just for the hell of it.! [/sarcasm again...in case you needed a clue]

You claim your female and western world privilige. Why is it so damn hard to see that there are people out there who enjoy certain privileges just because the color of their skin? If you actually read the “Required Reading” list, you would’ve learned that “white privilege =/= higher celebrity or economic status”.

One more thing: You have no one but yourself to blame for not having any friends. With the attitude you’ve shown here, it’s really easy to see why that is.

By: the angry black woman

the angry black woman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:46:24 +0000

Purple Passion, I suggest you go back to the Required Reading and reread the sections on privilege. You obviously don’t get the concept yet. Everything you just posted above smacks of you not having read my post or the comments and links therein. Until you do, there’s no point in having a discussion with you about it. If you continue to act in a manner that shows you refuse to educate yourself on this point, then we’re just going to ignore you. We’ve already had this conversation about 20 million times. Your ignorance of the finer points of it is forgivable… up to a point.

By: Purple Passion

Purple Passion — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:58:08 +0000

OH, I just thought of a couple of privilages:

1. I don’t live in a third world country. (but this would apply to everyone on this blog, I’m sure)

2. I’m female. I never have to worry about being drafted to war, being in an extreme position of power (which is very stressful, I’m sure), being laughed at if I report a rape, being called a “pussy” if I cry, being called “gay” if I hug a man, etc, etc..

There is definately a lot of female privilage, and I accept that.

By: Purple Passion

Purple Passion — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:38:00 +0000

@ABW: I have already read that section.

@Angel: You don’t know anything about me, so it’s a pretty silly thing for you to assume that I am “privillaged”. I just visited your blog profile, and judging by your photo, you’re VERY healthy (I’m not), have a nice salon hair-do (I can’t afford such things) & you have a digital camera (I don’t even have one of those. LOL). I’ll bet you have a nice job too, don’t you? And maybe even a nice car?

Contrary to what you may think, somebody doesn’t walk up to my door and hand me a $10,000.00 check for being white. LOL Nor have I been given any special opputunities. I can’t even get hired at McDonald’s, so what does that tell you? I have ZERO friends, only one family member I’m on speaking terms with (but even that relationship is strained), and I’ve recently been told that I have colon cancer. Oh yes… what a wonderful life I have.

You really need to stop clumping people up into racial-based catagories, and give more thought to the individual. I’m NOT the middle-class Malibu Barbie you have stuck in your head. Maybe if you were not so busy playing “the victim”, you’d realize there are some people (yes, some of these are white people) who are worse off than you.

By: Scorpio

Scorpio — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:30:00 +0000

OK, Obama doesn’t share all my opinions, but by God he is so far above his competition that for me there was no contest.

No, racism isn’t dead — but an awful lot of people proved that quality is what matters.

By: Suzzy

Suzzy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:03:28 +0000

Hey,

I’m a white girl living in the UK and I just wanted to say that I thought Obama being elected was amazing and I really hope that he brings the changes that are needed.
Oh and I love the blog by the way

By: Angel H.

Angel H. — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:45:56 +0000

Does anybody know where I could find the exact wording of Prop 8?

By: Diane J Standiford

Diane J Standiford — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:43:48 +0000

Yesr, prop 8., I see it was worded poorly. . I don’t blame Obama for ANY of now, he actuallty said the words gay and disabled. If he sys, “jump” I”ll say, “Hpw high?.”

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By: jenn

jenn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:18:30 +0000

I personally wish that we could have waited a few days before we formed our traditional circular firing squad. I really wanted — no needed — to celebrate something this year. The election of Obama is a really great moment in our country’s history. As for Prop 8, I find it really hard that ALL black people have been blamed for what a few of us may (or may not) have done. I’m tired of being 10% of the population and 100% of the problems. I personally support Gay rights.

And I don’t live in CA. God, I’ve never even been to CA! Yet, on most of the blogs that I follow, I’ve actually been attacked for something that I never supported. Let’s all take a collective breath and think for a moment on how we can deal with the homophobia in parts of the black community that does exist. But please I don’t blame everyone black for Prop 8. That just doesn’t seem fair to me.