icedsodapop:
I’m seeing White liberals/leftists getting angry at Oprah over the situation at Maui and I just want to say this real quick:
Again, I want to preface this by saying that I’m not defending Oprah Winfrey for owning Hawaiian land, because she shouldn’t. But I also want to point out that the White pple getting angry at Oprah specifically is problematic becos:
1) it individualizes the problem and does not allow for further interrogation of US colonization of Hawaii and how the US goverment created the very conditions that allowed wealthy Americans to own Hawaiian land in the first place.
2) of the fact that Black women, will face harsher scrutiny than their White counterparts for every action they do, and Oprah is a hypervisible wealthy Black woman. I don’t see the same vitriol targeted towards White wealthy celebrities who own property in Hawaii like Jeff Bezos or Owen Wilson or Woody Harrelson or Willie Nelson or Jim Carrey, and so many more if you do a quick google of “celebrities who own Hawaii property”.
That is why I get wary when I see White and non-Black pple criticize Black public figures, simply because a lot of them, even if they are left-leaning, don’t examine their antiblack bias and hence, don’t question why they react so excessively vitriolic towards Black women. And sometimes, the criticism devolves into microaggressions, like it did with Lizzo and Carlee Russell.
Again, I just want to reiterate to White pple, esp White pple who consider themselves liberal/leftist/progressive/left-leaning in general, that y'all need to reflect on why y'all are so quick to jump to mockery/criticism/vitriol/outrage whenever people of color, esp women of color, fucked up or are perceived to have fucked up.
I included “perceived to have fucked up” becos y'all will jump on people of color over non-issues like what happened with John Boyega, Constance Wu and Marie Kondo
