Last week, an Ogle Mole sent me a link to an obscure local social blog from Ada. It's called "Keeping Up with the Nuefelds," and its semi-anonymous author, who we'll call Discriminated White Girl, is one of the country's leading caucasian women's rights advocates.
If you need a little proof, check out this stirring blog post titled "Rantings of a White Girl," where Discriminated White Girl explains what it's like to never be asked to move to the back of the bus.
The purpose of me writing this is not to offend anyone this is just my thought for the day so I really hope that you don’t get offended and that you just read what I have to say and think about it.
I’m at a diversity training for my work and a lot of the people in my class make it sound like being white is one of the best things that you can be in America & that white people are NEVER discriminated against. I have a few thoughts on that….
First off, being white isn’t as cool as people make it sound. As a white female from Oklahoma, summer is actually one of my least favorite seasons because I’m white. Whenever I say that I’m white I mean that I’m white like as in ghostly white. Almost every day I get made fun of about how white I am & people even say things like “if you were tanner you would be prettier” or “if you would tan your white legs would be so distracting”.
Yes, being white is not nearly as cool as country music makes it sound. All the white stereotypes you hear about – Whole Foods, NASCAR, higher wages – are totally overrated.