“My feelings were hurt”
I bet she never forgot a paper and pencils for the rest of her life.I’m sorry I agree with this exercise but not the commentary. As a white “blue - eyed” women I certainly don’t understand completely the experiences of every individual in this world (race, gender, religion, nationality, etc) The whole point of the exercise is to show people how oppressive society works, the environment it creates. To take someone from one environment to another radically different social environment can be traumatizing exercise or not. I have participated in these exercises before and they are frustrating, I am not defending anyone’s actions. I am not trying to be an apologist. I think these exercises are valid. Yet to mock someone for their response? It makes you no better than the oppressors that this whole exercise condemns. You are creating and perpetuating the system.
I’m mocking the shit out of that dumb white heffa for not being able to handle a fucking hour exercise of 1/5th of the daily shit PoC go through.
MOCKING.
LAUGHING.
I WILL SEE HER WHITE TEARS IN MY SLEEP AND COLLECT THEM TO SEASON MY ANIMAL-BLOOD-DEATH STEAK.
You know what’s fucking wild? Middle school, the white teachers would talk to us just like the teacher in this video talked to that white girl and I never thought nothing of it til now.
Right, I remember in 4th grade, the teacher had us all do reports on states, and mine was Alaska, so I’d literally just learned that Alaska was the largest state, over 2x the size of Texas.
The teacher said Texas was the largest.
I corrected her.
Let me give you a hint at how much white teachers hate being corrected by little black chilrens.
It’s A LOT.
One of my favorite (by which I mean most troubling) “white teachers can’t be corrected by non-white, especially Black students” moments was in 4th grade. With a sub.
I forget how it came up, but somehow the class was discussing what is and isn’t an animal, or the sub asked for an example of an animal. And I said humans, because I was cheeky and too smart for my own good. This teacher started flipping out saying that wasn’t true and that people aren’t animals. Mind you, the question, as far as I can recall was very vague and just asking in the most loose terms for examples of animals. So she’s just yelling at me and I’m like “But humans are mammals. Mammals are a class of animals.” And she’s like “Animals have hair on them!” So I point to my arm and I’m like “I have hair on my arms.” And eventually it gets so bad that I go to our rickety ass old as dirt dictionary and point to the entry on humans where it says humans are animals and she still refused to acknowledge that I was right or that she had phrased the question poorly.
i want every white person to go through this shit, for real. lol those tears.
She sums all this shit up so well at the end: “I cannot shed tears for a young white female in this exercize, who knows that this is an exercize, who knows that it’s temporary, who knows that she’s getting a college credit for being here—I’m sorry, I have to save my sympathy, and my empathy, for those who go through something much worse than this every day of their lives.”
If guilt is overshadowing a white person’s work & understanding of race, then they are centering the wrong person and their attempts are completely useless, if not even more damaging than doing nothing.
Wow. This is a very interesting experiment…This is a must-see!!!!
(Source: eshusplayground)
