Why should you have kept your mouth shut? People never learn if they never disagree and never ask questions, and this is a pretty important topic.
And really, I'd hazard to be presumptuous and say I know how this barrage of information feels. I've been there before -- "I'm white, but I've had a pretty shitty-to-normal lot in life, have had to endure rough times like everyone else, and now some college-educated hippy bastard is sashaying in and telling me I've been handed everything on a goddamned platter like the Duke of Earl? What the fuck?"
And people's experiences do vary, for certain. It's doubly-hard to understand or swallow if all you've known in your adult life is the opposite of what we're trying to tell you. And like I said -- while it's not true everywhere, it's important to know about this kind of stuff because the only way we'll be able to fight this shit and make it a thing of the past is to know it exists, and from there, decide what to do as a people to make it extinct.
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Date: 2007-03-24 04:18 am (UTC)And really, I'd hazard to be presumptuous and say I know how this barrage of information feels. I've been there before -- "I'm white, but I've had a pretty shitty-to-normal lot in life, have had to endure rough times like everyone else, and now some college-educated hippy bastard is sashaying in and telling me I've been handed everything on a goddamned platter like the Duke of Earl? What the fuck?"
And people's experiences do vary, for certain. It's doubly-hard to understand or swallow if all you've known in your adult life is the opposite of what we're trying to tell you. And like I said -- while it's not true everywhere, it's important to know about this kind of stuff because the only way we'll be able to fight this shit and make it a thing of the past is to know it exists, and from there, decide what to do as a people to make it extinct.
But knowledge, as always, is the first step.
(I still <3 u btw)