OPEN LETTER TO PEOPLE OF COLOR (facebook)

[Zema]

This letter was written by a European (aka “white”) man...

“An Open Letter to People of Color:

Please do not trust white people.

Every single one of us is racist. It's something we were born and raised into; we were and are consistently indoctrinated into White Supremacy.

Indifference and apathy towards systemic racism and it's horrific results is not just more comfortable, it is incentivized. We are actively rewarded by White Supremacy in its many forms for ignoring people of color and their cries for injustice. Our bones are riddled with it. It's everywhere.

We were taught the history of our nation through textbooks written by white men with a vested interest in how the story was and is being told. So, we think that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the patron saint of polite black folks (to be invoked against the angry ones), peanut butter is the extent of black excellence, and according to the newest textbooks, slaves were just unpaid interns.

We were brought up being given medicine designed for us by white men who historically tortured black women and murdered black babies to found gynecology. Men who performed surgeries on black people without any anesthesia and no precautions because it was believed [more like propagated] that black people cannot feel pain. And you wonder why we do not sympathize when black children are gunned down by police?

Nothing stopped. The framework of systemic racism just keeps getting dressed differently. Yesterday's fire hoses and attack dogs are today's cultural appropriation, tone-policing, and respectability politics.

We are the ones who committed genocide, stole this land, and now, generations later, think it's cool to dress up like the folks we massacred. We're the ones making fun of people who can't speak "perfect" English. We're the ones who've come up with every single racial slur used in this country. We're so much more concerned about you questioning us, telling us no, or calling us out, than we are [about] what you're actually experiencing at our hands. We will spend countless hours just poking at you, trolling you, just to prove you're this less intellectual, overly emotional animal, to get you to fail a standard we set for you, without ever cluing you in on it.

We are the ones who built this country on the blood, the bodies and the backs of people of color, and then built Mt. Rushmore, statues, and monuments to white men. We rigged the economy, the government, and the schools, created the ghettos, set you up for failure, and then we blame you for not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. We are still making you defend yourselves, over and over ad infinitum. We make you defend your person-hood, your autonomy, your agency, your decency, your humanity, because when you keep [people] on the defensive, when you keep them explaining who they are, and justifying their right to life — nothing real ever gets done.

Even though I'm queer, even though I'm trans, I still get to sit in the "Whites Only" section and I have heard what gets said and I'm begging you, please don't trust us.”

Thoughts?

Link: https://www.facebook.com/azraeadelux...nf&pnref=story

[LUPE]

Real. Refreshing. Clears the air. No pretention. No agenda. No sophistry. Rare.

[The Light Within]

I'm not going to trust anything on that man's page. There is so much wickedness, witchcraft, satanism, vileness, and twisted garbage on his page its absolutely insane to repost anything by him. My skin crawled just by looking at all that filth.

What's with all the bitternes? Are you trying to anger others on here by what you're doing. You're getting quite bold. I'm really quite scared for where you are at right now and what you are dabbling with.

Lord almighty I pray, reach into Zemas heart, mind and soul!

[The Light Within]

Maybe one day they will and the whole tide will turn in the other direction. That's what the Black Hebrew Israelites want and even yell at to people on the street. That they will one day rule this earth and every whiter person "devils" will bow down to them in submission. Is this the proper strategy to deal with oppression?

*warning language

[LUPE]

I'm not going to trust anything on that man's page. There is so much wickedness, witchcraft, satanism, vileness, and twisted garbage on his page its absolutely insane to repost anything by him. My skin crawled just by looking at all that filth.

What's with all the bitternes? Are you trying to anger others on here by what you're doing. You're getting quite bold. I'm really quite scared for where you are at right now and what you are dabbling with.

Lord almighty I pray, reach into Zemas heart, mind and soul!

TLW, you missed the whole point of what the dude said: He's addressing people of color.

As far as Zema I don't think she's bitter. She doesn't need prayer.

[LUPE]

Maybe one day they will and the whole tide will turn in the other direction. That's what the Black Hebrew Israelites want and even yell at to people on the street. That they will one day rule this earth and every whiter person "devils" will bow down to them in submission. Is this the proper strategy to deal with oppression?

*warning language

Why are you bringing up the Black Hebrew Israelites? Nobody on HCR agrees with them. Those guys are cultists.

[Zema]

Ayo, Ras, what do you think of his open letter to us?

[Ras]

Ayo, Ras, what do you think of his open letter to us?

I can understand his reasoning of not trusting white people because of so much indoctrination. But I don't see it as an impossibility. Since he's claiming to have this knowledge (and is white), then I assume that he would say he some "enlightening" on the subject. I'm sure it's reasonable to assume that he's not the only one. And of course, the irony of a white man saying this. But we're to somehow trust him, if his premise is true.

[LUPE]

I can understand his reasoning of not trusting white people because of so much indoctrination. But I don't see it as an impossibility. Since he's claiming to have this knowledge (and is white), then I assume that he would say he some "enlightening" on the subject. I'm sure it's reasonable to assume that he's not the only one. And of course, the irony of a white man saying this. But we're to somehow trust him, if his premise is true.

Ras, I hope you don't mind me jumpin' in.... This dude is like Ed Snowden when he exposed the extent of NSA spying on people. Dude is not racist but like Snowden is a whistle blower of sorts. That's my take on it.

[Zema]

Since he's claiming to have this knowledge (and is white), then I assume that he would say he some "enlightening" on the subject. I'm sure it's reasonable to assume that he's not the only one. And of course, the irony of a white man saying this. But we're to somehow trust him, if his premise is true.

Can you rephrase this part?

[Jason Bradfield]

TLW, you missed the whole point of what the dude said: He's addressing people of color.

As far as Zema I don't think she's bitter. She doesn't need prayer.

Ohhhh...now i get it. Thanks for pointing that out Lupe. I mean, at first, i was like, "this rant is so stupid and irrational." But since you have pointed out that it is a white man writing about white people to people of color, that changes everything. It is no longer irrational, stupid, and over-generalized.

Thank you.

PS. TLW didn't miss the point. You, actually, missed his.

[Jason Bradfield]

Ras, I hope you don't mind me jumpin' in.... This dude is like Ed Snowden when he exposed the extent of NSA spying on people. Dude is not racist but like Snowden is a whistle blower of sorts. That's my take on it.

It's official. Lupe is now the official HCR's version of Alex Jones. Another conspiracy nut.

So what is my secret agenda then, Lupe? Spill it out. Enlighten all of us idiots with that vast wealth of knowledge you have.

[Jason Bradfield]

I'm not going to trust anything on that man's page. There is so much wickedness, witchcraft, satanism, vileness, and twisted garbage on his page its absolutely insane to repost anything by him. My skin crawled just by looking at all that filth.

What's with all the bitternes? Are you trying to anger others on here by what you're doing. You're getting quite bold. I'm really quite scared for where you are at right now and what you are dabbling with.

Lord almighty I pray, reach into Zemas heart, mind and soul!

Good for you. It's refreshing to see that someone on here has some sense.

And you're absolutely right about Zema the Princess Warrior. Imagine if someone wrote a post of "black" people making all the irrational, stupid generalizations that this clown made...you would never hear the end of it.

I want to see this same idiot write a similar piece about all the "Queers," but I doubt that will happen because bashing queers isn't the popular thing right now...at least not on the level of bashing "whites." Oops...did i say 'whites'? Scratch that...i meant "Europeans." Calling people 'white' is racist, remember?

DO keep praying for these race baiters.

[eternal]

Thoughts?

I agree with much of Ras' observations.

Aside from that, it is very over-generalized, overly monolithic, etc. There is a difference between seeing some correlations especially through the development of history and the biases that are created, the gospel addresses this very thing. But there is a difference between that and simply making a "white race" out of a skin complexion, ignoring distinctions and making this sort of on going sinister plot across the white spectrum.

[Zema]

I agree with much of Ras' observations.

Aside from that, it is very over-generalized, overly monolithic, etc. There is a difference between seeing some correlations especially through the development of history and the biases that are created, the gospel addresses this very thing. But there is a difference between that and simply making a "white race" out of a skin complexion, ignoring distinctions and making this sort of on going sinister plot across the white spectrum.

Interesting.

[The Light Within]

I'm going to get to the bottom of this...

[The Light Within]

I'm in prayer as we speak on this.

[LUPE]

Ohhhh...now i get it. Thanks for pointing that out Lupe. I mean, at first, i was like, "this rant is so stupid and irrational." But since you have pointed out that it is a white man writing about white people to people of color, that changes everything. It is no longer irrational, stupid, and over-generalized.

Thank you.

PS. TLW didn't miss the point. You, actually, missed his.

I still think TLW is missing the point. This dude is speaking honestly about how he feels from the POV of a White guy and addressing it to people of color specifically. Is he totally accurate? Of course not. Is he being forthright? Of course he is. That's my point.

[The Light Within]

TLW, you missed the whole point of what the dude said: He's addressing people of color.

As far as Zema I don't think she's bitter. She doesn't need prayer.

Lupe, this downright comes from the evil one. I'm not the one who's being duped.

And yes Zema does need prayer as we all do, however this is starting to get out of hand.

Where are the rock solid believers calling out this nonsense for what it is?

[LUPE]

It's official. Lupe is now the official HCR's version of Alex Jones. Another conspiracy nut.

So what is my secret agenda then, Lupe? Spill it out. Enlighten all of us idiots with that vast wealth of knowledge you have.

The whistle blower comparison to Ed Snowden is simply meant to convey that both he and Snowden have their own POV that they share with the intention of drawing attention to what they see as wrong. It's their own POV.