I'll be a real monster this Halloween
Oct. 30th, 2009 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yelosonWhat if this Halloween, I dressed up to be a white person?
Not a celebrity, politician, or anyone with a name.
Not a police officer, a cowboy, a doctor or a profession or role.
A white person.
That alone, would mark me as different, strange, "dressed up". A costume for your amusement and enjoyment.
I wouldn't even dress up as a real white person as you see day to day. I'd dress up as a caricature of a white person, one which every white person would get to hear inflicted upon them day after day, for the rest of their lives to let them know some horrible, fucked up weird fetish person from shitty movies, pornos, and sites dedicated to hating and using white people, THAT fake person is what everyone thinks of when they think of white person.
That's what their kids would get to face too, not just this holiday, but everyday, for the rest of their lives. Coming home crying, because their real skin, their real lives, wasn't "authentic enough" for other people.
That horrible fake person would be me, dressed up like that, for fun.
Trick or Treat.
Not a celebrity, politician, or anyone with a name.
Not a police officer, a cowboy, a doctor or a profession or role.
A white person.
That alone, would mark me as different, strange, "dressed up". A costume for your amusement and enjoyment.
I wouldn't even dress up as a real white person as you see day to day. I'd dress up as a caricature of a white person, one which every white person would get to hear inflicted upon them day after day, for the rest of their lives to let them know some horrible, fucked up weird fetish person from shitty movies, pornos, and sites dedicated to hating and using white people, THAT fake person is what everyone thinks of when they think of white person.
That's what their kids would get to face too, not just this holiday, but everyday, for the rest of their lives. Coming home crying, because their real skin, their real lives, wasn't "authentic enough" for other people.
That horrible fake person would be me, dressed up like that, for fun.
Trick or Treat.
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Date: 2009-10-30 07:29 pm (UTC)