Transgender fired for ‘All White People Are Racist’ Remark

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First up, let’s put my words in context, as the Daily Mail failed to do so. This ‘rant’ was a direct response to the violence of WHITE SUPREMACISTS in Charlottesville. It was not written this week.

Secondly, identifying that the success of the British Empire has been at the expense of the people of colour, is not something that should offend ANYONE. It is a fact. It happened. Slavery and colonialism, at the hands of white supremacy, played a huge part in shaping the United Kingdom and much of the west, into the super power that it is today.

Whether aware of it or not, in today’s society the lighter your skin tone (people of colour included) the more social privileges you will be afforded. Whether that’s access to housing, healthcare, employment or credit. A person’s race and skin tone has a HUGE part to play in how they are treated by society as a whole, based on their proximity to whiteness.

When I stated that “all white people are racist”, I was addressing that fact that western society as a whole, is a SYSTEM rooted in white supremacy - designed to benefit, prioritise and protect white people before anyone of any other race. Unknowingly, white people are SOCIALISED to be racist from birth onwards. It is not something genetic. No one is born racist.

We also live in a society where men are SOCIALISED to be sexist. Women are SOCIALISED to be submissive. Gay people are SOCIALISED to be ashamed of their sexuality due to heterosexual people’s homophobia. Cisgender people are SOCIALISED to be transphobic. We do not need to be this way. We are not born this way and we can learn to reject it. We are just socially conditioned to think this way from an early age. With the right education, empathy and open mindedness we can unlearn these socialisations and live a life where we don’t oppress others and see things from other people’s points of view.

So when a transgender woman of colour, who has been selected to front up a big brand campaign to combat discrimination and lack of diversity in the beauty industry, speaks on her actual lived experience of being discriminated against because of her race and identifies the root of where that discrimination lies - white supremacy and systemic racism - that big brand cannot simply state that her thoughts are not “in line with the ethics of the brand”.

If you truly want equality and diversity, you need to actively work to dismantle the source of what created this discrimination and division in the first place. You cannot just simply cash in because you’ve realised there’s a hole in the market and that there is money to be made from people of colour who have darker skin tones.

The irony of all this is that L’Oréal Paris invited me to be part of a beauty campaign that ‘stands for diversity’. The fact that up until very recently, there has been next to no mainstream brands offering makeup for black women and ethnic minorities, is in itself due to racism within the industry. Most big brands did not want to sell to black women. Most big brands did not want to acknowledge that there was a HUGE demographic that was being ignored. Because they did not believe that there was MONEY to be made in selling beauty products to ethnic minorities.

If L’Oreal truly wants to offer empowerment to underrepresented women, then they need to acknowledge THE REASON why these women are underrepresented within the industry in the first place. This reason is discrimination - an action which punches down from a place of social privilege. We need to talk about why women of colour were and still are discriminated against within the industry, not just see them as a source of revenue.

Racism may be a jagged pill to swallow, but I suggest you force it down quickly if you want to be part of the solution. Doing nothing, does nothing and solves nothing. Empowerment and inclusivity are not trends, these are people’s lives and experiences. If brands are going to use empowerment as a tool to push product to people of colour, then the least they can do is actually work us to dismantle the source, not throw us under the bus when it comes to the crunch. At times like this, it becomes blindly obvious what is genuine allyship and what is performative.

I stand for tolerance and acceptance - but neither can be achieved if we are unwilling to discuss WHY intolerance and hate exist in the first place.

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Whether aware of it or not, in today’s society the lighter your skin tone (people of colour included) the more social privileges you will be afforded. Whether that’s access to housing, healthcare, employment or credit. A person’s race and skin tone has a HUGE part to play in how they are treated by society as a whole, based on their proximity to whiteness.

Doesn't work on Indian Americans..

[Heather Duval]

Shes wrong in this point of all white people are racist. The rest I didnt even read, btw.

[Arduti]

Who's apt to listen to a transgendered person expound on the notion of healthy gender roles? One can be gay without being transgendered, so I don't put gays and trans people in the same category. Gay people are honest while transgendered people have issues with identity.

[Heather Duval]

Who's apt to listen to a transgendered person expound on the notion of healthy gender roles? One can be gay without being transgendered, so I don't put gays and trans people in the same category. Gay people are honest while transgendered people have issues with identity.

Gay people are not trans, but we support them. Actually, gay people support anyone victim of social injustices.

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We are not born this way and we can learn to reject it. We are just socially conditioned to think this way from an early age.

Why do delusional liberals still spout nonsense about the Tabula Rasa theory when it has been disproven by modern science ? Anyway, racism is a virtual law of nature as in "birds of a feather flock together" as is so ingrained that we find it twice in our language i.e. "like" and "kind" from which we can infer we like who we are like and are kind to our own kind.

[Arduti]

Gay people are not trans, but we support them. Actually, gay people support anyone victim of social injustices.

Lying people covering up who they are should not be supported. Rachel Dolezal had identity issues and when she was outed, she was a "victim of social injustice".

She socialized herself into that role, in an effort to resist the truth of her origins (i.e. lying), and created her own problems.

[Queen B]

Loreal did well and fired her. Her rant was uncalled for, rude, racist and unproffesional.

[Heather Duval]

Why do delusional liberals still spout nonsense about the Tabula Rasa theory when it has been disproven by modern science ? Anyway, racism is a virtual law of nature as in "birds of a feather flock together" as is so ingrained that we find it twice in our language i.e. "like" and "kind" from which we can infer we like who we are like and are kind to our own kind.

No, it's not. Racist parents will raise racist kids, because racism is social construction. And you're proud to be racist? It must be very nice to hate a person, God is proud of you. And there is no such thing as liberal whites. There are people and people who are looking for hate.
I frequent to Brazilian forums and I can tell you that most Brazilians, whites, blacks, mixed or mestizos, are against racism. And practicing racism in Brazilian forums is a reason to ban. I have already been banned from several Brazilian forums for saying that mixed people are ugly. Racism is not tolerated among humans of modernity, you have to hide yourself into forums like Stormfront.