White Privilege Diary Series #1 – White Feminist Privilege in Organizations (via @Nick_Lalone)
More often, however, splits emerge along racial lines — the white women simply aren’t receptive to the core ideas put forward by the women of color. Those ideas are "too expensive" in money, time or resources. They’re outside the boundaries of "the purpose of the organization." The white women "don’t think they’ll work" or don’t feel they’re "fair." The donors might object. And so on. White rejection is usually passive aggressive, and resembles the Transactional Analysis game of "Yes, but…" The women who attempt to bridge are shut down by both communities because the women of color feel that "it’s happening all over again," and the white women experience the list of proposals as some kind of "attack."
I feel that very much (2% of black people in the game industry for the win! Smallest minority in 2005, I don’t think it changed much). At so many levels did I make bridges and it’s a schizophrenic task to defuse white people’s feeling that I’m attacking their views while at the same time trying to push my ideas which are often different because of being a minority. I really like simple things and getting straight to the point so something like that feels like a necessary and complex chore that I’d love to make disappear.
The thing is that there’s no end to that. Once we’re all grown-up we can’t change our views, it’s too late. We hit a strong lack of malleability at some point in our life. Look at how old people today screw us all with no remorse. We are pressured, over-taxed and debt-ridden just to maintain a system that only profits our parents and grand-parents. Fucking selfish humans.
So yeah, I know the situation in interracial relationships will barely change during my lifetime as it’s not even going well in intergenerational relationships. Quite the opposite actually.
I should have been born in the future, I know.
(totally forgot to post this blog post.)