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Eight Things White Parents Should Teach About Black People

wtfwhiteprivilege:

1) Black People and White people are different but that doesn’t mean one is better than the other

2) If you don’t know something about Black people ask a lot of them. Your Black friends don’t speak for all Black people.

Click the link for the rest! What do you think?

3) White People as a group have done terrible things to Blacks in this country – and just because they are black (not to mention Asians, Latinos and American Indians).

4) Saying “n——-r” is the same thing as saying “bitch.”

5) Always remember there is a difference between a Black neighborhood, a bad neighborhood and a poor neighborhood.

6) No matter who your sister/brother has dated, or what your friends have told you, or how many episodes of Chappelle Show you’ve watched you do not KNOW Black people. 

7) Black people are not pets, so don’t touch them without permission

And finally: the best way to get along with Black people is to not be oblivious. Nothing annoys Black people more than White people who pretend racism doesn’t exist and then proclaim ignorance in the face of overwhelming evidence.

This is a nice list, but I disagree with 4 a lot. “Bitch” does not have the same weight as “nigger” (which we all know), but normalizing it in the way “bitch” has been normalized is hella dangerous. We all know language becomes a lot coarser as kids turn into teens (who then turn into adults) and if they grow up thinking that nigger is just as easy to fling about as bitch…

Honestly, I think there should be a way to teach the gravity of the word, to have children truly understand what it means and why they shouldn’t use it.

^^^ this touches on it nicely.

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Clutch Magazine

This times a hundred thousand trillion. Any time a man thinks that he can give advice to women or comment of something we do, what he likes and doesn’t.. it’s inherently sexist. This idea that you have all the answers, or that women need to conform to this or that to suit your fancy…