cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17772988
A helpful guide on how to be less frustrating towards people of color.
This is some white saviour bullshit right here and I say that as a brown south Asian born in Britian. Most people want to be treated like equal humans, not charity cases, not terrorists. A human being capable of human achievement and human malice. If someone treats me “ah too sweetly and gently” because I’m brown like my best friends Oxford mother does at time, I see it as extremely condescending and arrogant. But I was also very fortunate to grow up in a safe enough environment to grow and learn about these things that many of my ethnic background never get to.
I took treating everyone as a normal human being as granted. This would concern the individual level only. My point was that just saying “I treat everyone equally” completely lacks any understanding of structural discrimination. Like I said, this is similar to the “I don’t see color” debate. Or this Pat Parker quote relates to this too, doesn’t it?
The first thing you do is to forget that I’m black. Second, you must never forget that I’m black.
