The Personal is Political

This is a blog where I will be spouting out all of my personal political arguments, thoughts and beliefs. I encourage interaction and you're more than welcome to submit or ask questions. I identify as a feminist and most of my personal philosophies are built around social justice concepts. If you want to jump right to stuff I've written myself check the "the personal is politic" tag. Creative Commons License
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I'm her mom, not the nanny! - CNN.com →

robot-heart-politics:

You can probably guess what this is about before you even open it.

I’m a nanny and I see shit like this happen all the time and it kills me!  The flip side of this incredibly racist issue is that as a white person people always assume that I must be the kid’s mother even when we look nothing alike.  Like when I worked for an Indian family and people would actually ask me what race my husband was (since the kid obviously didn’t get her dark skin, hair, and eyes, and her Indian accent, first and last name, and language from me) and would tell her to “go bring that to your mommy” when we were out in public together.  I even got invites to mommy groups while I was with her and I would see how the nannies who are people of color would get treated - like they’re servants, like they’re lesser people, like they’re irrelevant and inconsequential.  It makes me sick every single time I see it.  People really need to figure out a way to see past race to the person.

(via face-down-asgard-up)

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