lizziegoneastray: freesamuel: ...

24th February 2012

freesamuel:

daniellemertina:

stfuconfederates:

Oh for fuck’s sake, if people don’t stop using the word ‘Caucasian’ when referring to white people I’m going to rename my blog Caucasiandoesnotfuckingmeanwhite.

‘Caucasian’ is a (racist) term incorrectly applied to white people when white people found actual Caucasian skulls (in, you know, Caucasia) which were perfectly shaped and assumed that they belonged to white people when, in fact, they didn’t.

jfc I’m getting tired of explaining this to people.

Thank you.

To me that is the c-word and it is never used by me. According to Wikipedia, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (a German anthropologist) came up with the term and wrote:

I have taken the name of this variety from Mount Caucasus, both because its neighborhood, and especially its southern slope, produces the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgian; and because all physiological reasons converge to this, that in that region, if anywhere, it seems we ought with the greatest probability to place the autochthones (birth place) of mankind.

No. Ya’ll are not the most beautiful race. Wrong answer. But that’s what Caucasian means.

keeping this on my blog because this is only something that I learned about RECENTLY

which is ridiculous

I’m not caucasian and I’m not the ethnicities of my ancestors ‘cause I wasn’t really raised in their respective cultures. It’s cool that my ancestors where russian jews, muskogee native americans, irish and polish catholics, but I’m not those things because I was not raised in those cultures. There may be hold-overs from those cultures that made it down through the generations to me, but I’m white and I acknowledge the privilege that comes with that and will try not to be an asshole and to learn from my mistakes and listen to POCs if they tell me I messed up.

Wow, I did not know this. Striking the word “Caucasian” from my vocabulary starting right now. Always thought it was kind of weird to call us that anyway.