It was a big awakening to me when I saw one ethnic Asian group (minority yet wealthy) oppress another ethnic Asian group (majority yet poor) in the country we worked in overseas. I was angry at the injustice merely because of the racial identity they were born with. This helped me see how my whiteness gave me opportunities in the USA that I didn't realize I had.
For me, too, it was time out of the U.S. that allowed me to look at it from another perspective. I can't seem to see the water I'm swimming in unless I hop out of it for a while.
I love this! I am an African American woman who hates using words like “white” and “black” to describe others or myself. We don’t use “red” for native Americans anymore or “yellow” for Asians. It’s racist! I try to use European American but no one uses it so I feel self conscious. But we need to start! Thank you! Also happy to see you are a sister in Christ! ♥️
Because it’s not a gift, it’s a curse. Because its close companion , patriarchy is a curse that affects half the world population regardless of their race. Because whiteness, patriarchy and capitalist greed are destroying our home the Earth to benefit a few obscenely rich white men and their families. Enough.
It was a big awakening to me when I saw one ethnic Asian group (minority yet wealthy) oppress another ethnic Asian group (majority yet poor) in the country we worked in overseas. I was angry at the injustice merely because of the racial identity they were born with. This helped me see how my whiteness gave me opportunities in the USA that I didn't realize I had.
For me, too, it was time out of the U.S. that allowed me to look at it from another perspective. I can't seem to see the water I'm swimming in unless I hop out of it for a while.
I love this word picture 🙂
I love this! I am an African American woman who hates using words like “white” and “black” to describe others or myself. We don’t use “red” for native Americans anymore or “yellow” for Asians. It’s racist! I try to use European American but no one uses it so I feel self conscious. But we need to start! Thank you! Also happy to see you are a sister in Christ! ♥️
I agree with you on the European American thing. We do need to start. Thanks so much for the kind words. :)
thank you.
Because it’s not a gift, it’s a curse. Because its close companion , patriarchy is a curse that affects half the world population regardless of their race. Because whiteness, patriarchy and capitalist greed are destroying our home the Earth to benefit a few obscenely rich white men and their families. Enough.
So true. It's impossible to separate whiteness from patriarchy and capitalism. It's a tangled web of oppression. Thanks for reading.
Wow tawnya this is exceptional and I don’t know what to say but how brave and brilliant you are for writing it