Oppression is not a costume for you to easily slip on and off. It is a complex, ever-changing phenomenon. The oppressed are not play-acting, and you shouldn’t be.

Heliotorix, re: my post “On whiteness, and its wanting to “understand” what the oppressed & such go through.” (via theblacksophisticate)

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Mon, Sep 2nd 2013 at 21 PM