We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda (via wordsnquotes)
me : *is lowkey dead*
I appreciate the fact that Google Docs recognizes ‘badassery’ as a real word
If you’re afraid that the cast of Mulan won’t be entirely Chinese or at least Asian clap your hands
Your vibe will attract your tribe
- someone: hey how are u
- me, plagued with existential dread: i'm good lol (:
My mom was driving me to the city yesterday and saw a Muslim and said something like “they’re invading our country” and I was like “no they’re just regular people like not every Muslim is with Isis it’s only a small group who is” and she goes “you just wait till you see American sniper. Then you’ll change your tune. You just wait” and if that’s not what the outcome of racist propaganda is then I don’t know what is
It really is
I go to school in Arlington, TX. Ya rab protect us all. If you’re at school and you see someone following you, please contact the police immediately. Nothing strange happened to me yet but I’m paranoid. When I woke, something in the air was different. Please keep me in your prayers.
- person: How's school going?
- me: Good. Sometimes I get the overwhelming desire to eat glass but it usually passes without incident
and no one is going to even mention that it was an atheist that killed those three innocent muslims. no one’s going to mention it was a white boy who posted pictures attacking islam and doing shit all the annoying atheists did in high school. we act as if attacking religion is just a fun game but tell me how fucking fun it is when people are shot in the head for wearing a hijab at a predominantly white university
so I decided to tweeze my brows in semi-darkness and things are bad
*freak dances to misogynistic rap music but with God and womanism in my heart*
^ LITERALLY FUCKING CRYING BC THIS IS THE MOST RELEVANT SHIT EVER. Whenever white people pull the ‘reverse racism’ card on me I’m like no shut the fuck up and sit your ass back down. Last I remembered you never had to suffer over three centuries of colonization AND…
did you experience slavery? did you experience apartheid? did you experience your so called police brutality that is actually not nearly as prevalent as you think it is? did you experience so called racial profiling when really, truthfully, a lot of minorities (especially african americans) are largely responsible for their own problems? do you even understand how much money this country has spent on minorities to make life easier for them then it is for white people? we don’t owe you anything. this country has done an insane amount of work just to make you feel good and you can’t even accept that, all you do is sit back and whine about how oppressive the white man is while you take everything for granted. shut up, stop making excuses for minorities’ shitty behavior, stop being selfish, and actually educate yourself. maybe you’ll see how we’re really supposed to make this works a better place
tl;dr most sjws are selfish little shitbags.
“do you even understand how much money this county has spent on minorities to make life easier for them than it is for white people?”
please, do enlighten me. please tell me how hard it is to be constantly validated by the media, to see people who look like you in movies and TV and magazines. please tell me how hard it is to look in the mirror and never know what it’s like to wonder why you don’t look “normal.”
as a woc, i’ve never know what it’s felt like, so please. go ahead and describe how difficult it is to walk into a room and not feel self conscious because of your religious headdress or the slant of your eyes or the texture of your hair. please describe how hard it is to be able to say “american” when people ask what you are, and not have to deal with the follow up: “no, what are you really.” please explain how hard it is to never know what it’s like to look into someone’s eyes and realize they don’t see you as a human being, but a race.
but most of all, i want to know how hard it is to never have to write an angry Tumblr post, hands shaking, as you respond to yet another person trying to tell you how to feel.
you’re right about one thing, though. i wasn’t alive for slavery, Jim Crow, apartheid, Japanese internment camps, the Chinese Exclusion Act, or a lot of things, to be honest. but my parents and relatives all have personal stories about the residual effects. my uncle was shot in the leg because some asshole with a gun thought he could walk into my family’s restaurant and shut the place down. because apparently chinks had no place selling their stinky food in the neighborhood.
now, I’m not saying white people don’t have problems like everyone else, or that poc are all angels and rainbows. but let’s be real: being a poc and a white person in the US are two vastly different realities. and if you don’t realize that, maybe you should start listening to the people who actually experience racism on a day-to-day basis.
and just to clear things up: police brutality and racial profiling are actual issues. to quote jon stewart: just because it’s snowing where you live doesn’t mean global warming isn’t real