white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty, shiny, sparky bits
take the ugly, dehumanizing and shitty parts too
Fine, I’ll just stop appreciating or admiring anything of beauty that culture other than my dull, boring, white-bread world creates; and go back to thinking that anything other than the output of my own culture is inferior, offensive, bizarre and disgusting.
This, children, is how white people bitch about having to deal with their own privilege: by acting as if they have no culture of their own, so they just HAVE to take somebody else’s!!! Won’t SOMEBODY think of the poor, cultureless white people!!!!!