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Posted on 10/16/2015 4:59:27 PM PDT by 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.
Since when did owning a book become a privilege? Books aren’t privileges to be doled out. A person worked for the money to buy that book.
This whole notion of privilege is so foolish.
A few months ago some professor of some liberalism deemed it so.
Really, this is a clear case for putting humans to sleep before their time. The bimbo is an ignorant (whatever). Keep her away from all technical machinery (especially guns) until we put her to sleep.
They arent compatable with civilization. Nothing about those life forms is remotely sensical. And they are fully half the country. America needs to split. We cannot coexist. They crave servitude and suicide. Give them an area, wait a couple months and go in and clean up the bodies.
wonder if she tried to blame her mom for her "awful" upbringing
She needs to tell her mama to stop telling her she loves her and go burn some books to get her street cred back.
By the way, is she any relation to Rachel Dolezal?
Just damn.
The utter horror of not having your fair share of oppression.
rubber room material...
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We cannot exist without you. |
She is obviously an idiot. Liberal. Same thing.
This is one of the funniest things I have ever read in my life!!!
Ms. Burton was made to feel ashamed because she came from a good home.
The benefit of a liberal education...
I have a half dozen libraries within easy walking, driving, or bus riding distance. With inter library loan, I have full access to probably every publication on the planet, though I might need to wait a few days for some of them.
They all have computers with full internet access, as well, though some limit it to one hour of time a day. I’d imagine that the limit could be adjusted, though, with a polite request.
In a nutshell, I can get a PhD level education on any topic that I choose, anytime that I want. It just requires time and patience.
Cost to all of this? In my hometown, free. In other towns, bus fare, and $5 for a library card.
But these sort of things are “privileges” and only for the rich folk, or some such. Though anyone can walk in and have them.
LOL, post of the day nominee!
This story needs trigger warnings.
You almost never ever hear a leftist say anything about the real oppression women in Islamic countries endure. It is always something about how unjust America is because a hypothetical woman executive earns 10% less than a hypothetical male executive, and Catholic hospitals are not (yet) required to perform abortions.
After reading your comment I was sure you were from New York. I’ve never heard that expression outside of New York.
Sheis unhappy she cannot bitch about ‘society’ and sh1tty family treating her awful.
Yet if that happened shed be angry towards society and family for treating her awful.
Liberals are insane, and impossible to make happy. They are truly implacable.
A liberal can always find a way to be unhappy.
Exactly. Save for an extreme few, there are no poor in America. (And yes let’s help - voluntarily - those very few.) Anyone making more than the world median income, about $2/day, is not poor. Libraries provide near endless knowledge for free, computers included. From that you can learn anything, and become anything, you truly want to be (and by “want” I mean you actually are acting to achieve it). Love is free to give and cherish.
The problem isn’t money and stuff, it’s giving a dang enough to care for your own and show them how to survive on whatever they’re given, however little.
The basta*ds at her school are emotionally manipulating young minds. Nothing quite so fragile as most freshman girls.
She is not mentally ill, just easily manipulated, like a Disney movie. Should she be stronger and better, yes, but she, and many like her, are not.
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