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How white entitlement marred my trip to a Ferguson teach-in
Posted on 12/17/14 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 12/17/14 at 3:56 pm
Quoted part a bit long, but absolutely worth a read. This is seriously, honestly serious and not a troll.
Rest of vacuous screed, where she doesn't think twice about letting her bag take up space on a full train, yet complains about the entitlement of others.
Pic of the scumbag, the self-titled "CrunkFeminist":
quote:
On Friday, I was on the train to New York to do a teach-in on Ferguson at NYU. Beats headphones on, lost in thought, peering out the window, I suddenly saw a white hand shoving my work carry-on toward me. Startled, I looked up to see the hand belonged to a white guy, who was haphazardly handling my open bag, with my laptop perched just inside to make space for himself on the seat next to me.
That he wanted the seat on the now full train was not the problem. That he assumed the prerogative to place his hands on my bag, grab it, shove it at me, all while my computer was unsecured and peaking out, infuriated me. I said to him, “Never put your hands on my property.”
His reply: “Well, you should listen when I talk to you.” That line there, the command that when he, whoever he was, spoke, I should automatically listen encapsulates the breadth of the battle against racism we have to fight in this country.
Buoyed by his own entitlement, his own sense of white male somebodiness, this passenger never even considered that he might simply try harder to get my attention before putting his hands on my stuff. His own need to control space, his own sense of entitlement to move anything in his way even if it held something of value to another person, his belief that he had the right to do whatever he needed to do to make the environment conform to his will are all hallmarks of white privilege.
In the reverse scenario, a black man would never get on the train, snatch up a white woman’s bag, and shove it in her face. But then black women are rarely entitled to the courtesies proffered to white women, and black people never presume they are entitled to occupy interracial spaces so aggressively.
To have a white man in 2014 demand that I listen when he speaks is the height of racial disrespect and indignity. To have a white person shove my belongings to the side rather than simply get my attention and ask my permission is an unnecessary level of disrespect, one that conveys yet again that their needs matter more than my own.
I do not exist to make white people comfortable. The fact that I know that and act like it makes white people even more uncomfortable.
Rest of vacuous screed, where she doesn't think twice about letting her bag take up space on a full train, yet complains about the entitlement of others.
Pic of the scumbag, the self-titled "CrunkFeminist":
Posted on 12/17/14 at 3:58 pm to 90proofprofessional
quote:
I call bullshite.
No way the seat next to her had enough room left for a full grown man.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 3:59 pm to 90proofprofessional
I believe she might have been taking up a few seats on her own based on that picture. Plus, its New York, everyone is rude there. Not just the white people. She's probably lucky he didn't start urinating on her forehead to get her attention.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:00 pm to 90proofprofessional
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CrunkFeminist
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:01 pm to 90proofprofessional
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a black man would never get on the train, snatch up a white woman’s bag
Must not comment.......
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:01 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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I call bullshite.
No way the seat next to her had enough room left for a full grown man.
Good point.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:02 pm to 90proofprofessional
I bet when she gets racially harassed every time she goes to Target.
Whites prolly axin her where the cookies be?
BTW: I am starting to doubt my hyphenated name theory.
Whites prolly axin her where the cookies be?
BTW: I am starting to doubt my hyphenated name theory.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:02 pm to 90proofprofessional
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This post was edited on 2/24/15 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:03 pm to 90proofprofessional
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Good point.
At this point, I doubt there was room for the laptop.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:03 pm to 90proofprofessional
She should move to Africa
This post was edited on 12/17/14 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:04 pm to 90proofprofessional
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with my laptop
To be fair...this LAP could hold a Cray Supercomputer. So, I'd be a bit miffed, too. shite's expensive
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:04 pm to 90proofprofessional
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Brittney Cooper is a contributing writer at Salon, and teaches Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers. Follow her on Twitter at @professorcrunk.
Just wanted to add this
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:04 pm to Green Chili Tiger
quote:That was my first thought as well.
No way the seat next to her had enough room left for a full grown man.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:05 pm to BlackHelicopterPilot
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To be fair...this LAP could hold a Cray Supercomputer. So, I'd be a bit miffed, too. shite's expensive
I'm running under the assumption that, when she sits, there is not an actual LAP.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:05 pm to 90proofprofessional
what a miserable existence she must lead if that's what she takes from a typical interaction
Interracial space?
Interracial space?
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:05 pm to 90proofprofessional
quote]a black man would never get on the train, snatch up a white woman’s bag, and shove it in her face.[/quote]
She's right, in NYC he'd grab it and run!
She's right, in NYC he'd grab it and run!
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:07 pm to genro
Well, yes, apparently she does 'teach' 'Africana studies.' If you don't know what that is, look it up 'cause I don't either. Wow, and junk like this takes up print space and such.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:07 pm to RTRinTampa
White Privilege Thread ON [OFF]
Thin Privilege Thread [ON] OFF
Thin Privilege Thread [ON] OFF
Posted on 12/17/14 at 4:08 pm to 90proofprofessional
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I was on the train to New York to do a teach-in on Ferguson at NYU
So she's already pissed off at all white people......
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Beats headphones on, lost in thought, peering out the window
Not listening or being considerate of other passengers, and can't hear any requests to move her bag of shite that is perched on the adjacent seat.
quote:
His reply: “Well, you should listen when I talk to you.” That line there, the command that when he, whoever he was, spoke, I should automatically listen encapsulates the breadth of the battle against racism we have to fight in this country.
....and blames racism for someone having to move her shite when she doesn't respond.
If this is her definition of racism, she has never actually experienced racism. She's looking for excuses to blame a white person.
This post was edited on 12/17/14 at 4:12 pm
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