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O we talking meme I have one but I may have to go to the principal office
NAACP Leader Exposed as White Woman in Blackface
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Yo the irony of this thread is even funnier than those memes
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Nah
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Whelp it was posted. Hope no rip
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upset i didn't get in on this thread over the last 10 pages
shout out to helium, rusty, cash & others for not succumbing to the lowest common denominator like the few others
shout out to helium, rusty, cash & others for not succumbing to the lowest common denominator like the few others
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View media item 1579438
Beautiful natural black woman.
#ebony #courageous #transracial #natural #bewhoyouwanttobe #heroic
Beautiful natural black woman.
#ebony #courageous #transracial #natural #bewhoyouwanttobe #heroic
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Dawg she's only 3 years older than me, I'll be damn...thought she was older for sure....she doesn't look half bad in those pics 
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They must be out their mind drawing that comparison! The REACH!!!!!!!!
They say.....
They say.....
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^^^^ Pa you trying too hard. Stop acting like this thread as vindicated you
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How old is she?
She looks 40-50
If she's in her 30s then
She looks 40-50
If she's in her 30s then
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They must be out their mind drawing that comparison! The REACH!!!!!!!!
They say.....
It's the exact same thing. I'm not asking anyone to ostracize Jenner, but you should accept Dolezal. If he can be a woman, then she can be black.
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It saddens me that this group seems unable or unwilling to discuss this issue within the context of racial inequality and has instead insisted upon clumsily wielding it as a bludgeon against transgender people.
There was nothing preventing Ms. Dolezal from attending Howard University as a White woman. There was nothing preventing her from wearing dreadlocks. There was nothing preventing her from working for the NAACP or attempting to serve as an activist. Society was not restricting her self-expression in these ways, let alone to the point that required her to fabricate a family, manufacture her own purported harassment, and so on.
We get out fair share of people here on NikeTalk who are "shopping for identity," and see hip hop, basketball, and "urban" culture as a way to distinguish themselves from their parents and align themselves with something cool and vibrant. They "try on" an identity the way they would an article of clothing. If trends change, they slough it aside. If it's deemed uncouth or inappropriate for a particular situation, like a job interview, they can easily replace it. No commitment - or sincerity - is required. Just another perk of majority privilege - you can be viewed as an individual rather than as a representative of "your group."
It's with no minor irony that some of the users who've made offensive or even downright racist comments on our forums were drawn here due to a commercialized cultural infatuation.
And that's nothing new. Scholars have viewed the "Beat Generation" through this lens for decades.
The protagonist in Kerouac's On the Road typifies the Beats' rejection of guilt and what many considered a culturally devoid White identity. The novel's hedonistic protagonist, Sal Paradise, recalls, “I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.” Sal’s desires revolve around the selfish pursuit of pleasure, associating minority culture with ecstasy, music, and “kicks.” His privileged experience, from which he appears so eager to flee, has blinded him to the harsh realities of oppression. He doesn’t limit his fascination with other cultures to the Black experience, however. Sal also wishes he “were a Denver Mexican, or even a poor overworked [slur deleted], anything but what I was so drearily, a ‘white man’ disillusioned."
Whiteness, in American society, is essentially a coalition of previously distinct ethnicities. The preservation and enforcement of an overarching White skin privilege is its raison d'être. Ethnic groups once considered "non-White," like Italians, were eventually assimilated, helping to maintain a demographic majority.
Though the true burden of this is borne by those whose oppression creates "White privilege," it isn't without its consequences for White people - however minor. The presentation of Whiteness as a "social default" often causes those who identify as White to feel devoid of a unique cultural heritage, unless they strongly identify with a particular ethnicity or country of origin. (Notably, this commandeering of the social default stigmatizes people of color for "acting White" due behavior that involves no deception whatsoever.) Then, too, there's the crisis of conscience that accompanies the origins of the coalition identity and its associated privilege. Once you peer into the slaughterhouse window, you can rationalize it - to portray what you've seen as "justified" and present the victims as "deserving," or you can start to question your own sense of innocence and entitlement.
The psychology that would lead someone to seek out an identity that they consider culturally rich - or one that isn't associated with "White guilt" - is rooted in the system of racism. Save for the standard adolescent desire for individuation, such an identity problem is only "biologically driven" in the sense that multiracial identities are so often invalidated as people are shoehorned into an either/or binary.
Suburbia is rife with measured non-conformity. Nobody actually forces kids to decide at birth whether they're "natural jocks" or "natural nerds." Traits are traits. Interests are interests. Live and let live.
What's problematic here is less the adoption of traits itself than the issue of honesty and accountability.
Racism is a blight on the whole of our society. Unsurprisingly, however, its effects are unequally distributed. So here we have this one source of dissatisfaction, this feeling of guilt and emptiness that is, as Baldwin phrased it, "the price of the ticket," the price of the privilege, and rather than taking that on as a compelling internal motivator to dismantle the system of racial inequality in this society, we have people just casually "trying on" different identities, discarding guilt, appropriating culture, all while continuing to passively benefit from (or actively invoke) their White skin privilege.
It wasn't enough for Dolezal to be an ally, to be a White person conscious of her unearned and unjust privilege while simultaneously attempting to attack the system of racial inequality.
Who, in this society, gets to say, on a whim, "you know what? I'm tired of racism. I didn't choose this. I think I'll just turn it off. No more consequences of racism for me."
That, I suspect, is what so frustrates people in all of this. This wasn't necessarily a "one way trip." A change of venue and a trip to a salon is all that would be required to "switch back" if life became too challenging - and that's a luxury that most people can't afford.
That's not, in any meaningful way, analogous to the transgender experience. We have the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation about racial identity in America, and you're blowing that because you want to feel smug in looking down your nose at the "freaks" who don't conform to your gender expectations. That's about prioritizing YOUR privileged sexuality ahead of addressing racial inequality, when the same basic process that awards privilege on the basis of sexuality does so on the basis of race.
In a truly "post-racial" society, it wouldn't matter of Dolezal wanted to change her complexion any more than it currently matters whether or not someone dyes their hair.
"I was born without a unicorn on my back, but I want a unicorn tattoo" doesn't offend anyone's sense of fair play. It's a purely personal decision. "I don't like racism, so I personally choose to change sides so I'm no longer associated with the oppressor" carries consequences for others. If you're on a team in the middle of a game, switching shirts isn't just a matter of fashion preference. It carries additional consequences - but not all of those consequences are equivalent or interchangeable.
When it comes to transgender people, some of the most nonsensical objections attempt to portray a transition in this way - as a means of gaining an "unfair" advantage. "Oh, if I'd only known as a teenage boy that I could just call myself a girl I could go into the girls' locker room and stare at boobies!" etc.
There, the backlash comes from those attempting to preserve an unjust social order - not from those attempting to challenge an unjust social order. "I benefit from straight/male privilege. Challenging gender norms threatens my source of privilege." That's very different than "You've already marginalized everyone who isn't White and staked a claim to the social defaults in our society. Now, on top of everything else, you've found something about my identity that you want - and you're taking that, too?! You want the privilege of Mitt Romney and the righteousness of Martin Luther King. You want to be the blonde haired, blue-eyed ideal, and you want to be 'ethnically exotic.' You want to be everything. You want to have everything. It kills you that there might be something out there - anything - that you can't possess. What is that, if not the pinnacle of privilege?"
If you really think that is the goal sought by a transgender person, perhaps you're the one with the mental illness.
There was nothing preventing Ms. Dolezal from attending Howard University as a White woman. There was nothing preventing her from wearing dreadlocks. There was nothing preventing her from working for the NAACP or attempting to serve as an activist. Society was not restricting her self-expression in these ways, let alone to the point that required her to fabricate a family, manufacture her own purported harassment, and so on.
We get out fair share of people here on NikeTalk who are "shopping for identity," and see hip hop, basketball, and "urban" culture as a way to distinguish themselves from their parents and align themselves with something cool and vibrant. They "try on" an identity the way they would an article of clothing. If trends change, they slough it aside. If it's deemed uncouth or inappropriate for a particular situation, like a job interview, they can easily replace it. No commitment - or sincerity - is required. Just another perk of majority privilege - you can be viewed as an individual rather than as a representative of "your group."
It's with no minor irony that some of the users who've made offensive or even downright racist comments on our forums were drawn here due to a commercialized cultural infatuation.
And that's nothing new. Scholars have viewed the "Beat Generation" through this lens for decades.
The protagonist in Kerouac's On the Road typifies the Beats' rejection of guilt and what many considered a culturally devoid White identity. The novel's hedonistic protagonist, Sal Paradise, recalls, “I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.” Sal’s desires revolve around the selfish pursuit of pleasure, associating minority culture with ecstasy, music, and “kicks.” His privileged experience, from which he appears so eager to flee, has blinded him to the harsh realities of oppression. He doesn’t limit his fascination with other cultures to the Black experience, however. Sal also wishes he “were a Denver Mexican, or even a poor overworked [slur deleted], anything but what I was so drearily, a ‘white man’ disillusioned."
Whiteness, in American society, is essentially a coalition of previously distinct ethnicities. The preservation and enforcement of an overarching White skin privilege is its raison d'être. Ethnic groups once considered "non-White," like Italians, were eventually assimilated, helping to maintain a demographic majority.
Though the true burden of this is borne by those whose oppression creates "White privilege," it isn't without its consequences for White people - however minor. The presentation of Whiteness as a "social default" often causes those who identify as White to feel devoid of a unique cultural heritage, unless they strongly identify with a particular ethnicity or country of origin. (Notably, this commandeering of the social default stigmatizes people of color for "acting White" due behavior that involves no deception whatsoever.) Then, too, there's the crisis of conscience that accompanies the origins of the coalition identity and its associated privilege. Once you peer into the slaughterhouse window, you can rationalize it - to portray what you've seen as "justified" and present the victims as "deserving," or you can start to question your own sense of innocence and entitlement.
The psychology that would lead someone to seek out an identity that they consider culturally rich - or one that isn't associated with "White guilt" - is rooted in the system of racism. Save for the standard adolescent desire for individuation, such an identity problem is only "biologically driven" in the sense that multiracial identities are so often invalidated as people are shoehorned into an either/or binary.
Suburbia is rife with measured non-conformity. Nobody actually forces kids to decide at birth whether they're "natural jocks" or "natural nerds." Traits are traits. Interests are interests. Live and let live.
What's problematic here is less the adoption of traits itself than the issue of honesty and accountability.
Racism is a blight on the whole of our society. Unsurprisingly, however, its effects are unequally distributed. So here we have this one source of dissatisfaction, this feeling of guilt and emptiness that is, as Baldwin phrased it, "the price of the ticket," the price of the privilege, and rather than taking that on as a compelling internal motivator to dismantle the system of racial inequality in this society, we have people just casually "trying on" different identities, discarding guilt, appropriating culture, all while continuing to passively benefit from (or actively invoke) their White skin privilege.
It wasn't enough for Dolezal to be an ally, to be a White person conscious of her unearned and unjust privilege while simultaneously attempting to attack the system of racial inequality.
Who, in this society, gets to say, on a whim, "you know what? I'm tired of racism. I didn't choose this. I think I'll just turn it off. No more consequences of racism for me."
That, I suspect, is what so frustrates people in all of this. This wasn't necessarily a "one way trip." A change of venue and a trip to a salon is all that would be required to "switch back" if life became too challenging - and that's a luxury that most people can't afford.
That's not, in any meaningful way, analogous to the transgender experience. We have the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation about racial identity in America, and you're blowing that because you want to feel smug in looking down your nose at the "freaks" who don't conform to your gender expectations. That's about prioritizing YOUR privileged sexuality ahead of addressing racial inequality, when the same basic process that awards privilege on the basis of sexuality does so on the basis of race.
In a truly "post-racial" society, it wouldn't matter of Dolezal wanted to change her complexion any more than it currently matters whether or not someone dyes their hair.
"I was born without a unicorn on my back, but I want a unicorn tattoo" doesn't offend anyone's sense of fair play. It's a purely personal decision. "I don't like racism, so I personally choose to change sides so I'm no longer associated with the oppressor" carries consequences for others. If you're on a team in the middle of a game, switching shirts isn't just a matter of fashion preference. It carries additional consequences - but not all of those consequences are equivalent or interchangeable.
When it comes to transgender people, some of the most nonsensical objections attempt to portray a transition in this way - as a means of gaining an "unfair" advantage. "Oh, if I'd only known as a teenage boy that I could just call myself a girl I could go into the girls' locker room and stare at boobies!" etc.
There, the backlash comes from those attempting to preserve an unjust social order - not from those attempting to challenge an unjust social order. "I benefit from straight/male privilege. Challenging gender norms threatens my source of privilege." That's very different than "You've already marginalized everyone who isn't White and staked a claim to the social defaults in our society. Now, on top of everything else, you've found something about my identity that you want - and you're taking that, too?! You want the privilege of Mitt Romney and the righteousness of Martin Luther King. You want to be the blonde haired, blue-eyed ideal, and you want to be 'ethnically exotic.' You want to be everything. You want to have everything. It kills you that there might be something out there - anything - that you can't possess. What is that, if not the pinnacle of privilege?"
If you really think that is the goal sought by a transgender person, perhaps you're the one with the mental illness.
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This is why i come here
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[quote name="Methodical Management"]
That's not, in any meaningful way, analogous to the transgender experience. We have the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation about racial identity in America, and you're blowing that because you want to feel smug in looking down your nose at the "freaks" who don't conform to your gender expectations. That's about prioritizing YOUR privileged sexuality ahead of addressing racial inequality, when the same basic process that awards privilege on the basis of sexuality does so on the basis of race.
[/quote] QFT
That's not, in any meaningful way, analogous to the transgender experience. We have the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation about racial identity in America, and you're blowing that because you want to feel smug in looking down your nose at the "freaks" who don't conform to your gender expectations. That's about prioritizing YOUR privileged sexuality ahead of addressing racial inequality, when the same basic process that awards privilege on the basis of sexuality does so on the basis of race.
[/quote] QFT
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Oh look, meth can in and told everyone what they think again. Didn't see that coming.
