I\'m Summer, a mouthy, sarcastic bitch. I\'m passionate about natural birth, long term breastfeeding, and living naturally. I curse too much, love tattoos, and will some day be crushed to death by my book collection. I homeschool, dream of gardening, and swing to the left. 
On Whiteness and Women
I’m a woman and I’m poor.
Together that often leads to a double dose of being shit on. In politics, in society, in most people’s ideas being a porn woman means I’m about 75% worthless. But, being a WHITE poor woman is a walk in the park compared to being a poor woman with any kind of color to her skin. Because no matter how much we are both smashed down, there’s always someone willing to offer a carrot to me that they would never offer to someone in the same position with less than perfect European heritage.
And it is disgusting. And yet, so many buy into it, thinking that little carrot is the ticket to the golden gates. It ain’t, but it keep them hoping. Isabel Allende said in her speech Tales of Passion that the only thing that truly trickles down is abuse. No matter how poor a man is there is always someone under him to abuse, most often a woman or a child. Unfortunately even among the poorest of the poor there is a trickle down onto people of color. Even if the only thing that keeps them below you on the ladder is your assumption that they are below you.
It’s called white privilege, Tim Wise explains how it got here.
[tags]race, racism, white privilege, Tim Wise[/tags]
Its so huge I don’t even know what to say. My first desire is very much to put my head in the sand. To focus more wholey on getting to my self sustainablity and get away from all….”that” I want nothing to do with that mess…but….running is wrong. Hmmmm