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tblue37

(67,271 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:26 PM 4 hrs ago

If you're white, your accomplishments are your own; Black & successful, you must thank white people:

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2025-10-04T16:47:33.757Z
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If you're white, your accomplishments are your own; Black & successful, you must thank white people: (Original Post) tblue37 4 hrs ago OP
also, if you fuck up and you're white, you represent yourself Skittles 4 hrs ago #1
This. tblue37 3 hrs ago #2
Yeah. This X 2 Collimator 3 hrs ago #5
yes Skittles 1 hr ago #10
I don't think that way. OAITW r.2.0 3 hrs ago #3
Does anyone in this admin actually WORK? leftstreet 3 hrs ago #4
Didn't he JustAnotherGen 2 hrs ago #6
Surprised he didn't throw "go back to your country "in there. I feel sorry for his children tulipsandroses 2 hrs ago #7
So he admits he is a Troll usually IbogaProject 2 hrs ago #8
",gratitude" is implied that America "gave" Black people something rather than Blacks helping to build America BlueWaveNeverEnd 2 hrs ago #9
And yet, they don't want to feel any guilt or responsibility Buddyzbuddy 1 hr ago #11

Skittles

(167,912 posts)
1. also, if you fuck up and you're white, you represent yourself
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:29 PM
4 hrs ago

if you fuck up and you are POC, you represent ALL POC

Collimator

(2,000 posts)
5. Yeah. This X 2
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:21 PM
3 hrs ago

It's an aspect of White Privilege that's basically water to a fish.

I see my White family members shaking their heads over some wrong doing of a White person on the news, and they may comment on the person's mental health or talk about how they were raised wrong somehow, but their color is never mentioned and the person's behavior is never attributed to some aspect of that person's "culture".

Skittles

(167,912 posts)
10. yes
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:37 PM
1 hr ago

they attribute some mitigating factors to help explain their actions

POC are never afforded these explanations

OAITW r.2.0

(30,686 posts)
3. I don't think that way.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:47 PM
3 hrs ago

You stand on your life record....each and everyone of us. And, at the very fucking end of the line, we will all have a moment of reflection - to recap a condensed version of ourselves - before the curtin closes. That's life.

tulipsandroses

(7,975 posts)
7. Surprised he didn't throw "go back to your country "in there. I feel sorry for his children
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:57 PM
2 hrs ago

Their wealth will not protect them from bigotry. JD Vance will never be president because of said bigotry,

IbogaProject

(5,109 posts)
8. So he admits he is a Troll usually
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:08 PM
2 hrs ago

Thank you for sharing, JV Sissy-pants.*


*this post in no way wishes to associate any proud and out sissy with our second in turd masquerading as a politician.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(11,532 posts)
9. ",gratitude" is implied that America "gave" Black people something rather than Blacks helping to build America
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:24 PM
2 hrs ago

That America was only built by white and all other groups are freeloaders

Buddyzbuddy

(1,638 posts)
11. And yet, they don't want to feel any guilt or responsibility
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 12:21 AM
1 hr ago

for atrocities committed by their ancestors or that are presently being committed.

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