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roachpatrol:

queerhairyvag:

unoriginaljack:

just some of my thoughts on allies in movements… primarily white allies, I’d love to hear fedback, I think I’m just trying to talk my way through some of the stuff that’s ben bothering me on tumblr about activism and/or allies voices.

“Allies have good intentions but are completely missing the point. We are teaching our youth and white youth in particular that everybody is equal, however the system we base it all on doesn’t do those things. So we have white people saying ‘equality for all, equality for all’ that includes them as well. 

Because white people being told they can’t be a part of something isin’t a thing white people have experienced as a concept.

When they are told “you’re stamping out my voice / this isn’t your movement” they’re not necessarily understanding that’s what they do because they have not been taught exclusion, what they have been taught is equality and activism and movements includes them because all the faces that represent these events look like them. 

When white people do stand up in POC movements, they speak from privilege without meaning to and they stamp out the voices they are trying to uplift and uphold. even if what they’re saying is the exact same thing as what the POC said, their voice is the one that will be heard which turns the movement into a white movement, which in our soceity, just looks like a movement. 

Imagine if you look at activism as a single file of line and you have POC or women or whatever minority is waiting on line, someone from the majority group comes along & wants to be heard, what they don’t realise is they have a fast-track pass because they are from the majority so they go to the front of the line and when a whole bunch of people from the majority joins the line, suddenly the whole line is 50-FT deep of just the majority

Minority gorups dont want someone to speak for them or evn on behalf of them. Allies’ role is to be a back seat not a spokesperson.

So instead of reblogging a POC post and putting in your own 2cents or paraphrasing something a POC said, just reblog it, dont add to it, let it be their voice. Let it move through you instead of come from you because as soon as you put any words to it, it becomes your work, your voice. People no longer see it as something that POC said but now as something you hold the opinion of.

POC voices dont feel are heard because white people will say the same thing but they are completely taking over the whole movement.

Thoughts? I would like to heard from you

You have articulated in 5mins everything that goes through my mind in a non-screaming fit way. I love you, you are perfect. Reblog for ever.