Esoterica: Can i just say something?

deliciouskaek:

thisshitisallracist:

triumphandstruggle:

This will probably piss someone off but this ancestry.com commercial pisses me off.

african american man saying how he knew his family had probably been slaves and acting like victim etc.

It pisses me off when african…

This is the commercial where the guy talks about how meaningful it was to find our his ancestor was born a slave but died a business owner, I think. How is that acting like a victim? That’s a pretty powerful thing right there.

White people, seriously. What are we even doing with this kind of bullshit?

Source: triumphwithoutstruggle

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  1. jawmusings answered: I love your sarcasm, boo. ;)
  2. littlegoldenapple reblogged this from proudly-odd and added:
    Then you should fucking know better than to say bullshit like “victim card.” Either racism is in the present and we’re...
  3. proudly-odd reblogged this from littlegoldenapple and added:
    Actually, I wasn’t sheltered. I went to a “minority school” all throughout high school. I saw kids do that kind of crap...
  4. littlegoldenapple reblogged this from proudly-odd and added:
    Yes, I do have a problem with a mixed person pretending that racism is all in the past. Seriously? You must lead one...
  5. proudly-odd reblogged this from littlegoldenapple and added:
    Excuse me, claiming to be mixed? I am. Deal with it. I don’t have shit to prove to you. It’s you who missed the point of...
  6. theannaverse answered: JEWISH PEOPLE DON’T TALK ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
  7. littlegoldenapple reblogged this from proudly-odd and added:
    Congratulations, you have completely missed the point of every damn thing I said and clearly have no idea what actual...
  8. cypheroftyr answered: I love you, you know that?
  9. proudly-odd reblogged this from littlegoldenapple
  10. classtruggle reblogged this from amodernmanifesto and added:
    The fact you get pissed off by...ridiculous. “Acting like
  11. closeyourpenguin reblogged this from saarahsaaywhaat
  12. bb-goose reblogged this from desliz and added:
    oh look it’s a racist douchecanoe using the Jews to be racist to black people, this has never happened before in the...
  13. thesacredcircle reblogged this from littlegoldenapple
  14. ohfuckitsoprah reblogged this from trollfairy and added:
    Seriously. The issue with the ad isn’t just ignorant, it’s probably evidence of this person not wanting this topic to...
  15. nowherezone11 reblogged this from desliz
  16. theballadofdevon reblogged this from deliciouskaek and added:
    This same ole, tired, lame ass argument is really starting to irritate me. My paternal grandmother? her PARENTS were...
  17. theballadofdevon answered: hey OP, you forgot to preface your post with ” Not to be racist but…
  18. littlegoldenapple reblogged this from custerdiedforyoursins and added:
    Ok, you know what, fuck you OP. Don’t use us and the Holocaust as a way to tell Black people to shut up. First of all,...
  19. saarahsaaywhaat reblogged this from desliz and added:
    ^The same goes for people (not only Jewish people, but everyone else who was killed in the Holocaust) who’s family...
  20. marxsrevenge answered: The African American community needs to get the fuck over it. They have created a culture of self-perpetuating victimization and segreation.
  21. missmollyetc answered: I just want the commercial where there’s a chick in a Doctor Who shirt, all “Ancestry.com? TIME TRAVEL AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.”
  22. scorchedmusings answered: Because the Holocaust is still within living memory versus slavery which was not…. why are people so ridiculous?
  23. blahblahblather reblogged this from european-booty-scratcher and added:
    My maternal great grandfather was a slave,...my paternal great grandmother (who died...
  24. witchsistah answered: I’m tellin’ y’all. They ain’t learnin’ a damn thing. Time to save our energies for ourselves.
  25. buttercupsfrocks answered: I’m Jewish and I know several people whose grandparents were killed in the Holocaust. We talk about it planty.
  26. frahnce answered: God you are so fucking stupid. -_-;
  27. everseducers reblogged this from triumphwithoutstruggle and added:
    white girl is so hard with all these poc telling you you’re being racist....must be so...
  28. ssia reblogged this from thisshitisallracist and added:
    What the fuck is wrong with this person.
  29. allthatihavemet answered: Um. Yes. Absolutely wrong.
  30. trollfairy reblogged this from arseniccupcakes and added:
    Race card? Really? Okay here’s a giant whole in your little tyraid: If a person is African American there’s a pretty...
  31. therotund reblogged this from karnythia and added:
    commercial where the guy talks about...find our his ancestor
  32. everseeking answered: The nature of the slave trade into the new world left slavery as the only history many African Americans have: No other origin.