I understand the difference--I'm just burned out on the issue right now and venting last-bloody-straw style.
Not only have I gotten told I am racist by nature for being white multiple times, in multiple venues, over the last week, but the last person to pull the "race card" in my presence did it while holding my coworker by the hair and trying to beat her with a phone receiver. That was yesterday. I posted about it in customerssuck.
Therefore, the whole "haw, haw, look at the whites trying to pretend they're not racist!" thing, even when it is not overgeneralizing and has points, brushes up against a very fucking sore nerve for me right now, and it's almost impossible for me to approach the issue even-handedly.
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Date: 2009-10-07 08:03 pm (UTC)Not only have I gotten told I am racist by nature for being white multiple times, in multiple venues, over the last week, but the last person to pull the "race card" in my presence did it while holding my coworker by the hair and trying to beat her with a phone receiver. That was yesterday. I posted about it in customerssuck.
Therefore, the whole "haw, haw, look at the whites trying to pretend they're not racist!" thing, even when it is not overgeneralizing and has points, brushes up against a very fucking sore nerve for me right now, and it's almost impossible for me to approach the issue even-handedly.