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You see, “Black/Brown/other ethnic women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black,/Brown/ethnic women.White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings“. This is how privilege works.

Taken from this article
http://riseresistandrevolt.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/understanding-white-privilege-and-our-mental-colonisation-british-fascism-revived-in-woolwich/ (via gtsmltb)

Yup.

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no. when I wake up in the morning and look at myself, I see a woman, full-stop. It’s others who label me. 

I’m not saying my heritage isn’t important to me, I’m not saying that I don’t also see myself as a brown woman, but fuck it, I don’t see myself as deviating from the default, or whatever. It’s others who do that to me. 

I don’t other myself. It is a violence done unto me. 

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I see myself as deviating from the default because “default” shouldn’t exist but it does.  I see myself as a Black woman, not as an othering done to myself but as a fact. I don’t feel the need to be associated with a concept that shouldn’t exist. A colorless society doesn’t exist and that’s not my fault, and I am othered every day but it doesn’t mean that my self ID is othering. I take power in what I am in the face of those who would try and use it to other me. 

That’s also not really what I took out of the article. I think it’s less about wholly self ID and more about how we see ourselves in relation to the hierarchical whole and how that effects us as a society. As a part of the whole, I am a Black Woman, that is something that until the whole changes, I will never NOT be in this society, I will always have identifiers and qualifiers until and unless those things become moot. As of now those thing still mean something both historically and currently, and the reason why that is might not have anything to do with me individually, it is still something that I have to consider before walking out of the house every day, however I choose to consider it, it still has to be considered. White people very often do not have to consider their Whiteness, as the world they live in is constructed around them, I have to consider the whole of my identifiers to be able to navigate in that world. 

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You guys, help!!!!!

Seriously I’m done with my mom. I don’t her next to me, hear her voice nor talk to her; I just want her outta my life. She just degrades me 25/8; just because I’m dark skinned and I’m not using whiteners, using lighter foundation, shaping my eyebrows and wearing weave like other girls! because I believe in embracing the true person I am and how I look. other than making me a coconut she wants to peel my skin. 

what should I do???!!!!

I just want to cry. I live in a country where it diminishes any possibility of growing an independent soul. fuckers just using islam to get their shit done!

That moment when you realize that all what you’ve toiled for the last 20 years is worthless and unappreciated. The fact that I sacrificed everything for it and deprived my soul from her freedom; all that just to be happy for the future. Now is the future and look where I am now. Watching happy people while drowning in my shameful, pitiful tears.