LOOK, I’M WHITE, and I can admit it: white people say some clueless shit sometimes. But sometimes we don’t pick up on quite how clueless or offensive we’re being when we say certain things — things which we mean in a totally harmless way, for the most part.
This video from Buzzfeed does an amazing job of flipping the stuff white people say on its head by showing how weird or offensive it would sound to us if we heard it coming from a different race. Not that we should need the help to stand in someone else’s shoes, but hey, as I said: sometimes we’re clueless.
Sig Nordal, Jr. 