#Ofc it was made off the exploitation of people of color and particularly black people within the US as well

[panvani]

Most of these people seem to understand white privilege doesn’t function through the action of individual white people going out and deliberately individually oppressing people of color with every action they take. They understand it’s a function of white people being given structurally more opportunities than people of color and being made out to be structurally more important than the people of color the government had historically exploited and continues to exploit. The same is true of US residents and countries in the global south. Idk why this is such a hard concept to grasp

#logxx #''How does a black person living in the US or spending US currency harm non-US residents'' I mean strictly speaking it doesn't #But every piece of modern American wealth was made off the exploitation of people in the global south #Ofc it was made off the exploitation of people of color and particularly black people within the US as well #But that doesn't negate the truth that there is no way to live as a US resident w out profiting off of slavery/imperialism #In the global south #That's not a moral quality! That's not something anyone chooses! #It's simply a fact of the world we live in #That American currency is worth so much and that English be such a treasured language is in itself evident of that #And while America's system does exist largely to oppress people of color and Black people in particular #That doesn't erase the structural features that define American infrastructure which every US resident interacts w #Which are all derived from imperialism in the global south