Stuff White People Like: Unpaid Internships

“In most of the world when a person works long hours without pay, it is referred to as ‘slavery’ or ‘forced labor.’ For white people this process is referred to as an internship and is considered an essential stage in white development.”

“White people view the internship as their foot into the door to such high-profile low-paying career fields as journalism, film, politics, art, non-profits, and anything associated with a museum. Any white person who takes an internship outside of these industries is either the wrong type of white person or a law student. There are no exceptions.”

This post from the infamous Stuff White People Like blog rings particularly true to me right now. (See the ‘intern’ link over to the right, which of course links to public radio.)