Posted on 05/13/2015 12:32:00 AM PDT by xuberalles
In the latest chapter of the left’s ongoing campaign to immortalize the grandfather clause of social justice, but more specifically to compensate America along racial lines, comes the politically convenient creation of “White Privilege”. Because the word “racism” obviously doesn’t denote enough singular intent to indict white America as the sole purveyors of hate, victimization has now evolved into blaming the pale subjects of suburbia as the greatest impetus for urban crime, poverty, civil unrest, and societal division. If “White Privilege” is truly designed to infer advantage or favoritism, then why did I grow up in a blue collar home, wear hand-me down-clothes, rarely have health insurance, never receive a college scholarship, was repeatedly turned down for loans or better paying jobs, didn’t qualify for public assistance, and was prosecuted for the smallest infractions of the law like any other American? And how is it remotely possible I would literally not change one of these inconvenient truths: those perceived “injustices” that made me respect my family all the more and instilled the values that made me the man I am today?
If the ignorant stereotype of “White Privilege” is meant to suggest millions of successful Americans didn’t sacrifice for their education, work tirelessly for a better wage, teach their kids right from wrong, and honor the country that affords them a level of opportunity few can fathom, then I’m assuming the even millions more of impoverished white Americans who did the exact same thing only to struggle daily also have your equal regard for the truth and economic justice? I find it incredibly ironic those minority entertainers, athletes and entrepreneurs making seven figure incomes are “getting paid” and the embodiment of the American dream, but those who fail to reach such levels of achievement are “slaves” and the victims of “White Privilege”? Just because everyone doesn’t get a blue ribbon, or enjoy the same blessings, doesn’t mean you’re a victim of discrimination or owed anything; it simply means life is unfair and excuses don’t come with a refund. In other words, you’re an anchor named envy and the biggest obstacle to your own success.
Detroit and Baltimore are hardly microcosms of blind hate and “White Privilege”, but rather a prime example of how liberalism breeds failure, dependence, and division by failing to use sound economic principles, the necessity to demand accountability from all citizens, in order to erect a vibrant and prosperous society. You can’t fault businesses for vacating urban centers that are rife with moral depravity, racial division, and decay – to refuse to excessively compensate unqualified or indifferent workers – no more than you would tirelessly endeavor to remove your family from those dangerous exploits. That’s common sense. Until people prove they’re ready to seek a better life through empowerment, education and hard work – to honor the law and respect all people regardless of the race or economic disposition – the results will never change. No obscene amount of money, no unending number of government bailouts, will change the status quo until the people themselves are willing to change first. You don’t free able bodied individuals from the ravages of anger and apathy by offering them a permanent crutch to compensate for their shortcomings or misfortunes; you help them realize the crutch is the very source of their ills.
The real tragedy in this progressive push to use race to eradicate personal responsibility, to replace equal opportunity with equal outcome, is that liberals have stereotyped and reduced minorities - specifically black Americans - into a helpless, sniveling, uncivil, irrational faction who are incapable of receiving an education, succeeding in the workplace, obeying the law, raising children within wedlock, building vibrant communities, respecting White America, and loving a country that does far more for their future prospects and civil rights than any African nation has ever done for its indigenous population. In other words, Democrats have disgraced generations of African Americans into believing their greatest ambition in life, or obligation if you will, is to be compensated via a menial government check and to repeatedly vote Democrat because a majority are not capable of anything more. Yes, how utterly racist and insulting. And if you may, how has either changed their lives for the better? Ensuring an endless cycle of poverty, an inexhaustible source of voter discontent, does nothing to help struggling minorities seize the wealth of opportunities America inherently provides. Such bankrupt propaganda merely keeps them enslaved to a legacy of victimization that no longer exists; except for the bankrolling the lavish aspirations of their new oppressors.
As a Christian who loves America and embraces people from all walks of life, I have grown tired of discussing race, refuting senseless propaganda, and defending the color of my skin. It literally tears at my soul and I find no joy in having to repeatedly speak negatively about the country I love or any sect of society that includes a number of my friends and associates. However, I also cannot sit idly and watch it burn in the name of immoral politics and false supposition. I don’t care whether you’re black or white, rich or poor, gay or straight, a Democrat or an atheist: if you show equal regard for my life and family, judge me solely according to my actions, I will unconditionally return such respect with equal vigor and appreciation. If I am truly the beneficiary of “White Privilege” and not the unique product of my efforts and struggles, then my critics are undoubtedly the festering product of “White Hatred”; or in presidential vernacular, racism. What else can you call such a malicious slight when the President of the United States, Barack Obama, doesn’t attend or send one delegate to the funerals of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Major General Harold Greene (killed in Action), or murdered American hero Chris Kyle, but somehow manages to deploy multiple delegates to the memorial services of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray; known convicted criminals and proud street thugs? What else can you label giving millions of illegal immigrants free welfare, healthcare and tuition – those non-citizens who have little regard for our laws or survival – at the cost of homeless veterans and those taxpayers struggling to make ends meet? Non-White Privilege?
Instead of focusing on those decent, hard-working Americans who do everything in their power to make the world a better place, minority or otherwise, an antagonistic media continues to give preference to the brokers of race in order to drive a wedge in the institutions of logic, but most notably, the streets of America. “We the People” can either strive to eliminate these numerous misconceptions and disingenuous ploys of political parasites, punish those who incite violence or invoke racism where none exist – often at the expense of real discrimination – or this nation can continue to succumb to the historically destructive exploits of distrust, hatred and discord. When color is king, the greatest victim is the truth. America doesn’t need more politicians, it needs a conscience.
“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.
Not being subject to racial restrictions like Jim Crow can be classified a privilege.
The problem is that Jim Crow ended 60 years ago, but blacks keep acting as if it didn’t.
Well, the Germans fixed that stuff.
America's Democrats have the same solution in mind for "white privilege".
Accusations of “white privilege”
are the new antisemitism.
It’s the observation of a non-prosperous group
of the success of a prosperous group,
and rather than adopt the value system of the prosperous group,
they seek its destruction.
Ah, ditto one post apart!
BEING subject to racial restrictions was a negative. That doesn't confer a positive on the part of those who are not so subject.
And if exemption from Jim Crow was a privilege for whites, how is exemption from criminal prosecution for looting, mayhem, theft, rape, murder, and conspiracy to commit violence not a privilege for blacks?
OJ walks free. Mumia abu-Jamal is still alive. Al Sharpton and Charlie Rangel are both tax cheats. Barack Obama lies about everything including his birthplace. Black rioters destroy and loot businesses in Ferguson, Baltimore, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles ... and are not prosecuted. Six policemen in Baltimore are indicted on the flimsiest of evidence because of the threat of black violence. Blacks are admitted to universities and jobs over more qualified white candidates. Black personalities routinely slander whites in the most racist terms imaginable with no repercussions, but a white personality uses the word "niggardly" and is summarily fired ...
Black Privilege is very real. White Privilege is a fiction.
There’s a worst kept secret in a jurisdiction in our area - minority juries won’t convict young black men - of anything.
Of course, only a few liberals are capable of such an awakening. When properly selected, with the message properly delivered, it is a miracle to behold.
Those who derive their superiority from their self definition of
Me good you bad
will not be convinced by any parallels that you explain.
Every human has this sense of eternity built in,
it’s just that libs think their eternal disposition
depends upon their own definitions.
Remember, “sin is... being out of alignment with my values”, quoth Obama.
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