So since the election, I’ve been hearing the same pseudo-racist whine from a lot of people that usually goes along with the tune “it ain’t easy being white”.\u00a0 Or some variation on that.\u00a0 People who say that make me want to slap the shit out of them.\u00a0 “Ain’t easy”?\u00a0 Just because a black guy is president?\u00a0 Oh, wait, because there hasn’t been a white boxing champion since…whenever?\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 If you seriously believe that’s all there is to it, go rent a place in the ghetto.\u00a0 Go live there for awhile and talk to some people.\u00a0 When the only job your great grandpa had was working to barely put enough food on the table for his kids to live, so they could get stuck in the same cycle…and on and on, you’ll think differently about things.\u00a0 Especially when your college educated grandfather, who came out and got a great job working for bosses who really thought that job was a white man’s job and lived in an beautiful house that was worth something when your pappy or you inherited it.\u00a0\u00a0 Even now, you’re still inheriting the product of racism.\u00a0 Just because you feel “shitty” that not every single president was the same color you are, or that stars in sports you casually watch aren’t white people doesn’t mean that you’re not still benefiting from centuries of prejudice.<\/p>\n
Even if your white family was poor going back generations, they still had an advantage that black people didn’t have.\u00a0 If they would have taken a bath and saved up for a suit, they would have had more of an advantage in most parts of this country and in most situations when they applied for a job than a black candidate.\u00a0 Especially if it were one of the “good jobs”.\u00a0 We still have the lingering remnants of a caste system even today.\u00a0 There are still old white assholes in charge who don’t think black people make “good doctors” or “good lawyers”, even if the president happens to be one.\u00a0 Or “good programmers”, for that matter.\u00a0 So, it actually isn’t “tough to be a white guy”.\u00a0 It’s just not as easy as it was when a big chunk of the population was being denied the same rights as you or your ancestors had.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it’s that passive aggressive racism that really pisses me off.\u00a0 With normal racists, I know they’re nuts, but with the passive aggressive kind, I know they’re just petty, ignorant, and self-centered.\u00a0 I have pity for people who have mental problems like most of the aggressive racists, and think they should be getting some help for what obviously is to me a symptom of a worse mental condition…but the passive aggressive ones need a slap upside the head because they should know better but don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So since the election, I’ve been hearing the same pseudo-racist whine from a lot of people that usually goes along with the tune “it ain’t easy being white”.\u00a0 Or some variation on that.\u00a0 People who say that make me want to slap the shit out of them.\u00a0 “Ain’t easy”?\u00a0 Just because a black guy is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-politics","category-stuff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}