This is the last thing I ever expected to happen to Shaun King. I don't know why the hell would I not expect it. I can't tell you how many times white people have told racist jokes in front of me because they didn't know that I was black.
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So, this is me. No makeup, no sorcery. This picture is a few years old. Nothing has changed.
I suppose what they really mean when they think/say that I'm not black is that I don't inspire their racist fears about black people.
Or they could mean that black people don't have certain looks. Not REAL black people anyway.
This really gets on my nerves.
Yes, I am privileged to not be immediately recognized as a black person.
"What race are you?" -People of All Races
"I am a negro, sir/ma'am." -Me
Now hate me.
That's what I always think when I watch their faces change and their smiles droop.
There is no such thing as white privilege for me. I have a thing called light skinned privilege.
Light skinned is still black.
And yeah, I do/did qualify for black scholarships to HBCUs and nobody would have cared if I had received a HBCU scholarship.
My job as a privileged BLACK person is to stand up for the darker skinned black people, although I am also in danger. I am in considerably LESS danger of all kinds of subjugation because I look more like white people. But not white.
Shaun King is not benefiting from white privilege. He may benefit from light skinned privilege but don't act like light skinned people are excluded from black scholarships. There is no clause that stipulates that black people can only have scholarships if they are darker than a paper bag.
Julian Bond was one of the whitest looking black men I've ever seen. (rest in peace, brother) I suppose he's not black, either.
How convenient. We can't enjoy white privilege because we aren't white. We also can't benefit from the things that are available to black people, according to some double-speaking fools, because we don't look black enough to make white people afraid to stand with us in an elevator.
A light skinned black man got a scholarship to an HBCU and used his education to liberate black people. White people complain.
This is so crazy, I can't even write a coherent diary about this shit.
Are the white people really coming for...my blackness?
Go shove your heads back up your asses, crazy racists. You've never seen super light skinned black people because when you see them, you think they're something else.
But you don't think they're white, though. Not a dark haired, dark eyed, yellow negro who's probably tanning when he goes to get the mail. I'm tanning right now probably under this table lamp.
I don't have to prove anything to you. Neither does Shaun King. Neither does Julian Bond. Some of these ignorant people would deny us blackness and still call us nigger. You don't get to do both.
"I'm a mutherfuckin nigga wit an attitude" -NWA
Kiss our black asses. I'd rather be a nigger than let you define my race as "white" when it's politically expedient for you to do so. You don't want us anyway. You just want to divide and conquer. We're not having it anymore.
Disclaimer: Not directed at Bernie Sanders/supporters or any of the liberals that know what black people look like.
Thank you for reading. I wish it could have been better but I need to write this so I can sleep. I have to work tomorrow.
Help me with my tags, please. I can't right now. I have smoked 1000 cigarettes and I can't see straight. lol
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