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Dear White Baby,
Welcome to the world! I hope you’re enjoying it so far? It seems like you’ve already gotten a bunch of rather entitled misinformation shoved into your head. Yes baby, you are white, and while I don’t hate you for this, you are very lucky because of it.
Did you know that black babies are WAY more likely to die within the first year? It is SO BAD it is being called an epidemic by some and intiatives have been started to reach out to black mothers at risk.
You don’t suffer the risk of being considered an anchor baby, a mere tool used by evil brown whores to take your mommy and daddy’s hard-earned money. You don’t have to worry about your parents being deported, or even YOU being deported, despite never having even been to your parents’ homeland before in your life! And risks to your future education due to you being undocumented, pfft, never going to be a problem! You won’t have to worry about people mocking your parents’ accents, questioning their legal status even if they are legal. Chances are, regardless of legal status, those brown women, like my mother, will be your caretakers and house cleaners, so be sure to burp with disgust in their general direction when you see them! Have fun on your family trip to the Caribbean, by the way. I’ve never been since the family couldn’t afford it, but it is just the homeland so whatever. no big deal. We shoulda just worked harder. You on the other hand deserve the vacation!
Before Latina women were your mules though, it was black women who cared for you like their own while your parents kept them as slaves, raped them and their daughters, lynced their husbands and sons, and desecrated and undermined their communities and identities for hundreds of years. Your mothers STILL make a profit off their suffering and servitude to you, as should you in the future. Remember fondly your mammy, white baby!Your mothers don’t have to fight forced, racialized eugenics, sterilazation, and slanderous attacks on their reproductive rights like women of color do. You don’t have Conservatives using you as anti-choice tokens like black babies are, or stealing you from your homes to collect government money or assimilte you to white culture like Indigenous babies are.
You will never be suffering disfiguration from drone attacks on your home by American soldiers.
You will never be misplaced, a refugee, an expat. You will never know war, suffering, or famine. You will never be murdered for buying orange juice or skittles while being black, you will never die of overwork and exhaustion in fields, you will never be executed then buried nameless under a school where you were forcibly brought to ne extracted of your identity. Those are fates for babies of color, not you.I was a baby when I was taught I was inferior, that I should be ashamed of what I saw in the mirror, of the language I spoke, of where I came from. I was a baby when I learned I was hated and to hate myself. You see, many babies never got the chance, to be loved and given their humanity, because your society deemed them ugly and wrong from the get-go.
But never mind that white baby. Just rest your little head. These are only nightmares you can wake up from, stories far flung and removed from your reality, unsavory things you hear about in the news and can turn off. Sleep tight, now. Goodnight, baby.
Ouch :(
(Source: ricksantorum-2012, via theeducatedfieldnegro)
“But the Black man by nature is a builder, he is scientific by nature, he’s mathematical by nature. Rhythm is mathematics, harmony is mathematics. It’s balance. And the Black man is balanced. Before you and I came over here, we were so well balanced we could toss something on our head and run with it. You can’t even run with your hat now—you can’t keep it on. Because you lost your balance. You’ve gotten away from yourself. But when you are in tune with yourself, your very nature has harmony, has rhythm, has mathematics. You can build. You don’t even need anybody to teach you how to build. You play music by ear. You dance by how you’re feeling. And you used to build the same way. You have it in you to do it. I know Black brickmasons from the South who have never been to school a day in their life. They throw more bricks together and you don’t know how they learned how to do it, but they know how to do it. When you see one of those other people doing it, they’ve been to school— somebody had to teach them. But nobody teaches you always what you know how to do. It just comes to you. That’s what makes you dangerous. When you come to yourself, a whole lot of other things will start coming to you, and the man knows it.”
— Malcom X, “Ancient Black civilizations.”
Believe me, things will come and it will hurt. But I am strong.
![humanrightswatch:
The US must stop sexual violence against immigrant farmworkers.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately.
In a new 95-page report, Human Rights Watch documents rape, stalking, unwanted touching, exhibitionism, or vulgar and obscene language by supervisors, employers, and others in positions of power. Most farmworkers interviewed said they had experienced such treatment or knew others who had. And most said they had not reported these or other workplace abuses, fearing reprisals. Those who had filed sexual harassment claims or reported sexual assault to the police had done so with the encouragement and assistance of survivor advocates or attorneys in the face of difficult challenges.
Farmworkers described experiences such as the following:
A woman in California reported that a supervisor at a lettuce company raped her and later told her that she “should remember it’s because of him that [she has] this job.”
A woman in New York said that a supervisor, when she picked potatoes and onions, would touch women’s breasts and buttocks. If they tried to resist, he would threaten to call immigration or fire them.
Four women who had worked together packing cauliflower in California said a supervisor would regularly expose himself and make comments like, “[That woman] needs to be fucked!” When they tried to defend one young woman whom he singled out for particular abuse, he fired all of them.
© 2011 AP Photo
Motherfuckers!!!! I was inappropriately sexually assaulted on the public bus system, I was convinced to tell the police and now I have to go through so much shit to prove everything. Broke my heart. I can only imagine the pain these women feel!!!!!! I felt enough injustice I can’t imagine their frustration and hurt :( Lets please do something about this!!!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44gqjcK131r2y8uzo1_250.jpg)
The US must stop sexual violence against immigrant farmworkers.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately.
In a new 95-page report, Human Rights Watch documents rape, stalking, unwanted touching, exhibitionism, or vulgar and obscene language by supervisors, employers, and others in positions of power. Most farmworkers interviewed said they had experienced such treatment or knew others who had. And most said they had not reported these or other workplace abuses, fearing reprisals. Those who had filed sexual harassment claims or reported sexual assault to the police had done so with the encouragement and assistance of survivor advocates or attorneys in the face of difficult challenges.
Farmworkers described experiences such as the following:
- A woman in California reported that a supervisor at a lettuce company raped her and later told her that she “should remember it’s because of him that [she has] this job.”
- A woman in New York said that a supervisor, when she picked potatoes and onions, would touch women’s breasts and buttocks. If they tried to resist, he would threaten to call immigration or fire them.
- Four women who had worked together packing cauliflower in California said a supervisor would regularly expose himself and make comments like, “[That woman] needs to be fucked!” When they tried to defend one young woman whom he singled out for particular abuse, he fired all of them.
© 2011 AP Photo
Motherfuckers!!!! I was inappropriately sexually assaulted on the public bus system, I was convinced to tell the police and now I have to go through so much shit to prove everything. Broke my heart. I can only imagine the pain these women feel!!!!!! I felt enough injustice I can’t imagine their frustration and hurt :( Lets please do something about this!!!
