[AshleyO]

Seriously, Skippy. Have you not noticed that the prevailing understanding of whiteness and black experience is virtually the same understanding across every member engaging with you here?

What do you think is more likely here? That you don't know what you're talking about OR that you somehow stumbled into a cabal of different colored skinned people actually hating white people?

No. You know what? I understand why you see it as hate and you know... you would make more sense with that outrage if you understood history, inheritance, material development, ect. ect. And you know what was fucked up, Skippy? We SHOULD hate whiteness. It was an invention and cross class alliance to unite poor and elite European settlers against their lowest form of labor. It was easy to do this too. European workers were wage labor while African slaves were... slaves. This brilliantly drove down wages yet elite Europeans and the working Europeans came to an agreement that no matter how poor, no matter how degraded, no matter how broken a European settler may be, at least they'd never be a ******. You absolutely SHOULD hate whiteness. It was a moral CHOICE for European settlers to overcome their own disgust with treating people like sub human garbage, and economic differences, and actually RAN with it. And on the backs of blacks, the white man's world was erected. So sure. Maybe we don't normally have outright whip throwing southern white boys calling other races different racial slurs. Maybe well meaning liberal white boys such as yourself took down the banners of white supremacy in the house of white power, but we adorn our house in the decorum of color blindness. Glass banners that still hold the same shape, that still wave the same way, and still remain... the whole thing virtually unchanged. Your conception of racism and color blindness is basically a less rude version of white supremacy and the reason why white supremacy still exists is because WHEN YOU ROOT IT OUT OF THIS COLOR BLIND WORLD, WHITE PEOPLE STILL DIG IN THEIR HEELS FOR THE REAL CHANGE THAT NEEDS TO OCCUR.

So you may have never in your life hung a black person or yelled fucked up broken Spanish at brown skinned workers, but this house... you and I and every person who sees themselves as white and understands themselves to be white have inherited this house and yet we are happy, comfortable, and passive about bringing this house down and erecting a new one because we'd HATE to for a brief moment, to stand out in the rain and endure the deconstruction of our house to build a much more accommodating house.