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tblue37

(67,311 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:26 PM Oct 6

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 Oct 6 OP
also, if you fuck up and you're white, you represent yourself Skittles Oct 6 #1
This. tblue37 Oct 6 #2
Yeah. This X 2 Collimator Oct 6 #5
yes Skittles Oct 6 #10
I don't think that way. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 6 #3
Does anyone in this admin actually WORK? leftstreet Oct 6 #4
Didn't he JustAnotherGen Oct 6 #6
Surprised he didn't throw "go back to your country "in there. I feel sorry for his children tulipsandroses Oct 6 #7
So he admits he is a Troll usually IbogaProject Oct 6 #8
",gratitude" is implied that America "gave" Black people something rather than Blacks helping to build America BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 6 #9
And yet, they don't want to feel any guilt or responsibility Buddyzbuddy Oct 7 #11

Skittles

(168,089 posts)
1. also, if you fuck up and you're white, you represent yourself
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:29 PM
Oct 6

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

Collimator

(2,005 posts)
5. Yeah. This X 2
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:21 PM
Oct 6

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

(168,089 posts)
10. yes
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:37 PM
Oct 6

they attribute some mitigating factors to help explain their actions

POC are never afforded these explanations

OAITW r.2.0

(30,752 posts)
3. I don't think that way.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:47 PM
Oct 6

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

(7,995 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
Oct 6

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

IbogaProject

(5,170 posts)
8. So he admits he is a Troll usually
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:08 PM
Oct 6

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

(11,698 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
Oct 6

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

Buddyzbuddy

(1,683 posts)
11. And yet, they don't want to feel any guilt or responsibility
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 12:21 AM
Oct 7

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

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