and it’s no accident that this segment is conveniently left out of our education
The white-washing of MLK jr. and the civil rights movement on a whole to make history look kindly upon white folk and convince POC of the disempowering lie that is “Be polite, nice, & don’t challenge us & you’ll get your rights” is one that disgusts me to no end.
this excellent comment ^
i got blown away by Tim Wise’s explanation on the explanation of “underprivileged versus overprivileged” and everything about how he no longer says “underprivileged” anymore because it’s a passive thing that we say that avoids putting blame on anyone. (“now if we could only figure out how you got down there!”
and as he said, none of his lectures are information from him but things that people have constantly been saying and constantly ignored until they fought for it.
(via maneir)
