Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism (via wretchedoftheearth)

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This is like when me and my white soon-to-be husband were looking for places. I’d call up and they’d say, “Come on down! Get an application!”. Because I don’t “sound” black.

Then I’d walk in 2 minutes later and they’d be all, “Oh. Sorry, we just rented it.”

Then I’d send him in and he’d get an application. 

The best part? Walking back in while he was completing the application. “Oh, they gave you an application? But they told me it was just rented. ODD. THAT. I’m going to report them so let’s just skip this place, m’kay?” The looks on their faces and the pathetic apologies were just too much fun.

Used to deal with the same thing with road trips. Hotels would tell me that there were no vacancies, but my white roommate would go in and get us a room, usually cheaper than advertised.

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I do similar stuff at restauants and other places of business with my white bf. At least it makes it easier to know where not to go!

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Reblogging again for the commentary

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It would be cool to make a map of places where people have dealt with these kinds of racisms and microaggressions, kind of like anti-racist Yelp. It would be sort of hard to do for real estate agents unless you located their management company and race reviewed that. This could actually be a lot like Turkopticon, a browser extension that lets Mechanical Turk workers review potential employers. It wouldn’t be too hard for someone to build a browser add on that inserts these race reviews on top of a system like Yelp, as long as Yelp didn’t then go and mess with their web code. 

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