Everybody Even Remotely Interesting is Mad: I'm getting infernally SICK of the white whiners saying Jane Elliot was being overtly cruel to the kids in that...

mordecai72:

uryel:

witchsistah:

thegoddamazon:

thecactusthatfoundthebeat:

thegoddamazon:

Look, I’m going to explain this as clearly as possible.

The exercise was to teach white people/white passing people about the daily racism that POC face by putting them in a position to be discriminated against constantly. This was the point of the “A Class Divided”…

I have one thing to say. It was an experiment, and people are upset. So why the fuck aren’t people upset when it happens in reality? This makes perfect sense.

And the bolded is precisely why I have no sympathy for white people who say they “know what it feels like” because some Black kid made fun of them one time in their adolescence.

Everyone is like “OMG don’t laugh at that girl for crying.” Fuck that. I will laugh and feast on her pain. Because you know what, when I cried? When I was hurting because my intelligence, humanity, and competence in a classroom was questioned just for being black? They were snickering and cracking jokes, making me feel even more inadequate and worthless. And you know what? I could have reacted. Could have killed everyone in the room and gladly done the time for it…but it wasn’t worth it. I gritted my teeth and soldiered on.

And I continue to do so.

So I have absolutely no sympathy for any of those crying ass kids in the video. None.

Buckled my seatbelt on the Fuck Them White Kids bus.

What’s interesting is that last year (more than normal) it was open season on black women in the media, EVERYWHERE. How many black girls went home and cried themselves to sleep? Where was the sympathy and outrage then? What about the mother who got arrested for sending her kids to a different school district to stay safe? Where were the white woman tears over that shit?

So cry me a motherfucking river.

To go with the video.
WWTs are magic. What would a white woman do without them. :/

See that bolded part? We were all kinds of ugly and manless last year. Last year a little girl was video taped giving oral sex and instead of all of this upset and anger and fear for her and other black women’s well being, black women were ignored, or studied even further like we’re lab rats.

But this girl volunteers for a class, and signs a waiver saying that she knows it will most likely be intense, and folks are jumping over people to defend her because she got upset and cried. She wasn’t in any physical harm, she was just talked sternly to, and started crying, and now people are jumping up to defend her.

So yes, I will continue to not give a shit about her feelings. I will continue to look at her like a lab rat in a science experiment, because that’s what she signed up for in that 2 hour class. She only had to deal with it for 2 hours, LESS THAN THAT BECAUSE SHE LEFT, however I have to deal with it for life and I don’t have the luxury of a bunch of people defending me when it happens to me.