What I’m about to talk about might get me a lot of hate, but honestly, I don’t care, because I want to say it.
“White guilt”- the guilt white people have for the past with black people in the USA- it is too big of an aspect in our daily lives. Black people are allowed to say things about white people that if we ever said to them, we would probably be called terrible and racist, even though racism doesn’t just mean white people to other races; it is a prejudice to any other ethincy.
For example, often as I walk onto the bus or pass through the hallway, an African American girl might say something like: “What’s that white girl wearing? She look ratchet!” or “Why is your skin so pale? Looking ugly!” or “That little white girl is dumb!” Let’s think about it. If I said “What’s that little black girl wearing, she look ratchet!” or “Why is your skin so dark? Looking ugly!” or “That little black girl is dumb!” I would get in serious trouble and be called racist and prejudice. But these people that say these things, they never get in trouble, and they just keep saying it, to me, my friends, my sister, a ton of people at my school and other schools. On the Metro bus on the way to school the kids from Clark share a bus with kids from Withrow. Honestly, most of the kids from Withrow are African- American. I don’t exactly know why, but all the kids from Withrow choose to sit at the back of the bus. A lot of Clark kids are Caucasians. Because of this and the whole seating arrangement thing, it makes it kind of awkward. And although the Withrow kids choose to sit at the back of the bus, and honestly, we don’t really care where anyone sits, I mean there are plenty of empty seats near the front, they jeer us saying things like: “Oh you don’t want to sit back here with the black kids!” or “Y’all scared of the niggers?” When that’s not true, it’s not a race thing, it’s the fact that no one would want to sit with anyone who called them ratchet and jeer at them, no matter what color they were. I mean, on one bus ride, they started throwing breakfast sausages at those sitting at the front of the bus, and one kid said can you please stop doing that, and they yelled back: “Honkey b**** stop yelling at me and my niggers!”
And the thing about this issue is it is really hard to confront it because of the white guilt and the tension.
To anyone reading this, I do not mean any harm, or do not mean to sound like I am discriminating against another race, I just wanted to bring up and issue that I have been seeing.