Racism
Posted March 19, 2009
http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/racism/ (http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/racism/)
I can moan about reverse racism all I wish when someone accuses me of "being just like other white folk." The fact of the matter is that I have not experienced anything of the sort. I have experienced individual resentments that occur because of what has always been an inherently racist system perpetuated by ancestors and non-ancestoral white folk. I may get backlash, but never "racism."
I think it's way past time that affronted white folk get that. Without the institutional and social negatives that have, and often still do, come from ethnic and racial prejudice perpetrated by "white" society, I am basically unable to experience racism in the USA or Canada or anywhere in Western Europe.
The transsexual aspects of discrimination I have experienced. They do not feel good or right in any fashion and yes, it feels really good and affirming that I am mostly unable to be told from any other white woman when I move through the world. Without the background checks there is no evidence that I am not "just another white woman." Alas, there are those background checks that get more and more universal.
I really am happy that the "reverse racism" thread got started here. Although I have to admit that the very idea of being discriminated against socially, institutionally, economically and politically in USA as a white woman I find simply and purely laughable. I mean, it's kinda like Dubya saying he's just a "poor ole Texas boy."
Yeah, I feel the pain!
Anyhow, it sparked this blog post and got me to writing again. So many thanks to all concerned in that thread.
Nichole