http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003518.html?wpisrc=newsletter

Anyhow, in addition to the racist douchebags who think the blogger is an Asian male, there are those who think the blogger is black. Some kkk fucktard went as far as making an unfunny and super racist blog called Stuff Black People Like–and the list of things don’t celebrate blackness in the way Stuff White People Like celebrates whiteness.

Some of those racist posters really need to learn how to read good. But I suppose it is because many of them are not particularly well educated in race relations or general reading comprehension.

At the heart of it, as many people have pointed out, the blog is as much about class as it is about race–when I read some of the entries I had to examine my own class privilege. I may have grown up poor, but I know that I have a certain amount of access because of education.

The difference between me and a white person who is of the Stuff White People Like mold is that my class privilege isn’t tied to my ethnicity because I am of Asian descent living in North America.

I think the site is important in that it represents an aspect of becoming a minority that hits us the most… dealing with white privilege - or the privilege that white people have of not having to think about their ethnicity. By identifying, or “essentializing” as Mr. Rodriguez so aptly put it, white traits and stereotypes, whites can’t help but be introduced to the marginalizing and sometimes accurate traits of their own cultural ethnicity! http://www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com is the first step in a lengthy rite of passage in becoming a minority in America. Righteous, yo.