Specify your words very carefully. When you say, "Whites get the most shit," do you mean the most shit about how they shouldn't be racist, or the most race-based crap in general? The first I would call technically correct but willfully blind, the second actively deluded. Sorry, but I don't know how to couch that in more polite terms.
You may find some benefit in this (http://www.ipoaa.com/tim_wise.htm) essay, written by a white American for white Americans. Your comments don't seem to distinguish very well between institutionalized racism and peer-to-peer racism, and frankly, the distinction makes all the difference in the world in understanding why "everyone always seems to expect the white people to stop being racist, first." Naturally - because, at least until the very recent past, if that, white racism had the most power behind it and was the most dangerous. Overcompensation is regrettable, frustrating, and potentially worth contacting the ACLU over; it's not really what I'd call oppression, though.
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Date: 2007-03-24 12:04 am (UTC)You may find some benefit in this (http://www.ipoaa.com/tim_wise.htm) essay, written by a white American for white Americans. Your comments don't seem to distinguish very well between institutionalized racism and peer-to-peer racism, and frankly, the distinction makes all the difference in the world in understanding why "everyone always seems to expect the white people to stop being racist, first." Naturally - because, at least until the very recent past, if that, white racism had the most power behind it and was the most dangerous. Overcompensation is regrettable, frustrating, and potentially worth contacting the ACLU over; it's not really what I'd call oppression, though.