STFU, Conservatives, I must confess that over the past few years I have...

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham City Jail, 1963 (via carton-rouge)

Boom. Indifferent, “colorblind,” privileged white liberals roasted. (via voicesofearth)

Someone tried to tell me this weekend that Black people needed to stop focusing on their Black identity and can’t we all just get along because we’re all human beings, you know, he doesn’t look in the mirror and see a white man, he just sees a human being! I was like, “Well that’s male privilege to say…” and he cut me off and went “Male privilege is bullshit, female privilege is what’s hurting us! Feminists just want special perks!”

Cue me slowly backing away…

But yeah. Calling for non-white people to just shut up about race stuff because it’d be more “peaceful” (AKA wouldn’t require white people to examine our privilege or change any part of a system that disproportionately benefits us) is total privilege bullshit.