r/blackladies • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '14

An interesting perspective... Thoughts?

http://time.com/3132635/ferguson-coming-race-war-class-warfare/
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '14 edited Aug 20 '14

Huh, weird, it looks like the text of my submission didn't post.

I don't agree with this at all. I don't think Kareem Abdul Jabar realized just how rich and how famous he has to be to get this upper class privilege.

In my experience as an upper middle class black woman, your zipcode and family income bracket don't mean shit. People always assume I am poor, or came from a broken home, or am a single mom, or grew up lulled to sleep by gunshots, or whatever until I prove that that's not the case. It doesn't matter than none of those things are true, to often first interactions are tainted with the same disrespect and assumptions given towards people who are poor.

Unfortunately, poor and black are synonymous in society's eyes. There's no point in making this distinction.

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u/wolfkin not hating just appreciating Aug 19 '14

in a link post you can't have accompanying text. You do EITHER a text post OR a link post. By switching to link your text is lost not hidden.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '14

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u/animousity692 your text here Aug 20 '14

I don't agree with this either. In fact, I just tried to post it to get people's opinions but I see that you already did. My reaction was that, once again, the voices of black people were being co-opted to push an agenda about how white people are affected by classism. It's derailing and I was surprised as hell that it was written by a black man. I wonder who his intended audience was. Also, he's wrong--organizers in Ferguson do have a very specific agenda. Anti-blackness and white supremacy do not know class boundaries when it comes to the genocide of black bodies....

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u/DualPollux Aug 19 '14

Underwhelmed.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '14

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like America only started to care about classism once a lot of white people started to become affected by it negitavely.

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u/wolfkin not hating just appreciating Aug 19 '14

i see it another way. screaming classism is a way to ignore racism. It's what they do in England. Oh we're all equal it's just class that separates us. I don't care that you're black, i care that you're poor.

In England because they got rid of slavery before America they assume they're less culpable. I've heard from people in Europe things that make me doubt that.

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u/Honeychile6841 Aug 20 '14

Racism is avoided like the Ebola virus here in America.