Author Believes White Girls Should Have Their Own Month

With Black History Month kicking off over the weekend, the web cracked a few jokes but has also used the holiday to spread awareness about African-Americans who changed history. While there are many people on board the holiday, one writer believes that white girls should be celebrated for their accolades as well.

In a post titled ‘Why Isn’t There A White Girl History Month?” writer Nicole Muller wrote that white women popularize non traditional things like Hip-Hop and Yoga and should be acknowledged for it.

The post begins about Black History Month and why they don’t care for it.

“February has to be, like, the worst month. The Absolute Worst.

You just can’t even with winter anymore, you’re never quite sure how many days it has or how its spelled, Valentine’s Day is always fucked up by some douchebag guy, and on top of all that, Black people get their own month.

Now, look, I know that sounds racist, but I’m not racist. I’m not mad that Black people have their own month because I don’t think they deserve it – I’m mad because when I hear “Black history month,” I’m just reminded that it’s 2014 and I still don’t have my own month. I love Black people. I love rap and the power it has to shift cultures – for example, the legalization of gay marriage after Macklemore’s Grammy-winning ode to equality, Same Love. Thank you, Black people, that shit is really fucking cool, and you did it! Good for you. But, can we cool it with this month shit? As soon as February rolls around you sound like this dumb skank Kayla I work with that has to remind everyone that her birthday is in three weeks.”

Clearly the author’s motive was to be satirical, but then they take it a step further by claiming that white women fall beneath Black men when it comes to privilege. The author also likened washing a car or lounging around as an equivalent to Rosa Park’s refusing to give up a bus seat in 1941.

“The thing is: we deserve it! Not deserve it in the sense that we fought long and hard for it, but deserve in the sense that we stuck to our diet all week and we can cheat today because, really, who can live without Chipotle? We deserve it in the fun, put your hair up in a bun and watch Scandal for nine hours kind of way. Nine whole hours, sitting on the couch, refusing to give up our seat, in defiance of the dog that needs to be walked or the dishes that need to be washed, like the Rosa Parks of women.

White girls have done so much for culture and society, and continue to do so, but I think the most important aspect of white girls is that we are ultimately the arbiters of assimilation. White girls are often accused of “appropriating” aspects of minority cultures and for some reason this is seen as a bad thing. There’s a big difference between cultural appropriation and theft. When a white girl goes to yoga, she’s not “stealing” yoga from Indian people, she’s just doing fucking yoga. It’s not like Indian people have to stop doing yoga because white girls are doing it now.

If anything, Indian people in western culture should see it as a good thing that white girls do yoga. We make it less “weird,” and help transition American culture from the white bread pantheon of mayonnaise and mommy blogs into the diversified, beautifully cohesive amalgam of culture that defines hip American youth. Do you really think yoga would be anything other than smelly one-player twister if it weren’t for white girls deeming it a feminist version of pushups? You think bubble tea wouldn’t just be some gross, Chinese, second rate Jamba Juice if we couldn’t drink it while walking around Sephora? Get real. White girls take the flavorless discordance of the melting pot and we turn into something that tastes fucking good. We put Cholula in our Pho, Instagram it as #hashtag cuisine, and bridge cultural gaps that used to span oceans in matters of seconds.”

The author has received numerous complaints about the post and their judgements. Miller was also attacked for a similar article wrote on on Asians called “So Are We Just Not Going Tell Chinese People That New Years Was A Month Ago?”

What do you think? Do you believe her jokes fell flat or was it really funny?

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