HuffPo Author Breaks Down in Tears After Realizing She is Less Oppressed than Others

iOTW Report ^ | 10/16/15 | Aurelius

[rightistight]

Writing today in the Huffington Post, Jasmine Burton says that she broke down in tears after realizing that she is not as oppressed as other people in the United States.

Ms. Burton's article is titled "Finding My Place In the Fight for Social Justice and Health Equity" and recounts her struggles to find her "place in the fight for social justice."

One of Ms. Burton's seminal moments in social justice came during her "first privilege walk." She writes that the "instructor lined everyone up at the end of a hallway and told us to stand side by side. She said, "It's easy. Just follow the instructions.""

Then the instructor told members of the privilege walk to take a step back if they had "books in their house" and had parents who "tell you that they love you everyday," among other things.

According to Ms. Burton, she was "far out ahead of the majority of the group, almost in complete isolation," meaning she was drastically move privileged than her compatriots.

"That was the moment that I physically realized that because of my background and because of my incredible communities of support, I was well positioned in life," she writes, emphasis hers. "And it wasn't fair. I completely broke."

After the activity, she called her mom, weeping: "On the phone with my mom crying, I tried to put into words just how unfair it was. I felt like a sham -- trying to engage in the fight for social justice and health equity despite not experiencing nearly as much struggle or pain as my peers.

"As a bi-racial African American and Native American female who grew up in a predominately white and largely affluent suburban community in the American south, I felt that the discrimination and injustices that I grew up combating would never compare to that of my peers," she laments.

Ms. Burton adds, "The intersection of my identities and my maturation as a social justice advocate has helped me digest how the concepts of power and privilege play out in my life on both the American and global stages."

Then, she writes, she went to the Global Health Corps Fellowship this year and was told by a speaker, "in the marathon of life, you can always take another step towards social change." This made Ms. Burton break down in tears again.

"This last statement resonated with me and honestly brought me to tears because much of what he said is comparable with my personal struggle of being a person from a perceived privileged and, therefore, power-oriented background engaging in this fight for social justice," she concludes.

[johniegrad]

Jasmine Burton inadvertently admits that she is mentally ill.

[Hugin]

Maybe she’d feel better if we sent her to ISIS so she could find out what real oppression is.

[TheBigB]

"The intersection of my identities and my maturation as a social justice advocate has helped me digest how the concepts of power and privilege play out in my life on both the American and global stages."

You can read this sentence forwards or backwards and it makes just as much sense.

[Teacher317]

“PLEASE let me be a victim!!!! I want to be admired and rewarded for doing nothing, too!!”

[rightwingcrazy]

Her upbringing evidently deprived her of common sense. That’s got to be worth something on the social justice scale.

[Norm Lenhart]

Get a cage
Put the liberal in the cage
Weld door shut
Walk away

Sooner or later folks will do it if they wish to survive liberalism.

[Flycatcher]

She's miserable.

Because she was happy.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Another product of the government-run indoctrination camps.

[Osage Orange]

Jasmine Burton is a nutcase.....

People I try to avoid....

[dontreadthis]

not even a good shtuppin’ will fix this

[Flick Lives]

I thought for sure this was satire. Not so sure now. Worried. Very worried.

[chrisser]

"The intersection of my identities and my maturation as a social justice advocate has helped me digest how the concepts of power and privilege play out in my life on both the American and global stages."

If brevity is the soul of wit, she takes witless to astounding heights.

[Drango]

Her post microaggressed me.

[RginTN]

These are the types who become mass killers...

[Fungi]

When rabid leftists put anything in front of the word “justice,” be very concerned. It is not “justice” they are talking about, anything but justice.

[Popman]

So you have to be oppressed to be able to work for social justice and health equity...?

Liberal are mentally deranged...

[PGalt]

She should offer herself as a sacrifice to the gangs/criminals that do the oppressing.

[dfwgator]

Any black person kills this useless breather, I would vote to acquit them on principle.

Of course, she’d probably appreciate that.

[Pontiac]

Then the instructor told members of the privilege walk to take a step back if they had "books in their house" and had parents who "tell you that they love you everyday," among other things

I am guessing that every one of the things that she had that her “peers” did not were easily affordable to the families of her peers.

Used books can usually be found at flea markets for a few cents.

It cost nothing for a parent to tell you they love you.

Used computers (one of the things frequently cited by these crybabies) can be had for less than two hundred dollars and frequently can be had for the asking from friends and relatives. They can usually be used for free at libraries.

I get really tired of people trying to make me feel guilty for advantages that my parents gave me by the sweat of their brow or I earned myself.

If others did not work as hard or had other priorities in life that is no reflection on my parents or myself. My parents got nothing because of their race and definitely not because of their religion other than good morals which does lead to better outcomes in life.