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Yes, White ‘Privilege’ 1s Still The Problem
Chicago Tribune ^ | March 29, 2018 | Dahleen Glanton

Posted on 03/30/2018 9:03:02 AM PDT by Iron Munro

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To: Iron Munro

Gee, every halfrican I know of on the national stage has chosen to be “black” over the white half (Uhbama, Kaepernick, and Ben Jealous, anyone?). Every halfie I personally know chooses to be embroiled in that culture.

That’s not white privilege.

Clearly there is black privilege.


61 posted on 03/30/2018 9:48:07 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: dirtboy
as an African-American woman, I can rarely find makeup that matches my exact skin tone.

Cosmetic Company CEO Options:


62 posted on 03/30/2018 9:50:28 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: dirtboy

“American culture itself is white-centric. For example, as an African-American woman, I can rarely find makeup that matches my exact skin tone. Though cosmetics companies have gotten a lot better at adding more diverse colors to their lines, I still most often have to buy two shades and mix them together to get a match”

I hate to tell her this but the same thing happens to white girls but I guess she is so racist she can’t tell shades of pale apart.


63 posted on 03/30/2018 9:52:18 AM PDT by baxtelf
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To: Iron Munro

This is just so unbelievable.

And regarding this:

For example, as an African-American woman, I can rarely find makeup that matches my exact skin tone.

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Well, guess what, honey, this very white woman has the same problem. I guess the manufacturers of cosmetics just hate all of us women, white and black.


64 posted on 03/30/2018 9:56:21 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: dirtboy

I still most often have to buy two shades and mix them together to get a match.

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Yes, the horror!

(BTW, I am probably old enough to be this racist’s grandmother, and I have had to do this for years.)


65 posted on 03/30/2018 9:58:34 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: Iron Munro

I am privileged.

I know God.


66 posted on 03/30/2018 9:58:37 AM PDT by Eddie01 (I learned it on FreeRepublic.com, same as you.)
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To: bmwcyle
I missed it. I never had any.

Me neither. If I waited for folks to hand stuff to me, I wouldn't be alive.

67 posted on 03/30/2018 9:59:10 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Iron Munro
For example, as an African-American woman, I can rarely find makeup that matches my exact skin tone. Though cosmetics companies have gotten a lot better at adding more diverse colors to their lines, I still most often have to buy two shades and mix them together to get a match.

LOL, as bad as slavery. she shall overcome...or maybe not

68 posted on 03/30/2018 9:59:15 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Alberta's Child

That fact correleates more closely to educational and economic success than skin color. But some people are just science deniers.


69 posted on 03/30/2018 10:01:39 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: BradyLS
WHITE PRIVILEGE THROUGH THE YEARS


70 posted on 03/30/2018 10:02:22 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Iron Munro

Black reporter has inferiority complex yells racism it works for the stupid ones.


71 posted on 03/30/2018 10:03:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: dirtboy
American culture itself is white-centric. For example, as an African-American woman, I can rarely find makeup that matches my exact skin tone. Though cosmetics companies have gotten a lot better at adding more diverse colors to their lines, I still most often have to buy two shades and mix them together to get a match.

Truly a heartbreaking tale of repression.

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That's her go-to example? As they say, "First World Problem." Welcome to it, lady!

72 posted on 03/30/2018 10:05:03 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: crusher2013

This is the new Democrat Party - whites aren’t allowed.

They had better get off this shit, it will really backlash on them.

And BTW, how about all those Asians from India, Vietnam and China, who are leading the income tables. White privilege held them back? The reporter writes as if there is a racist reason in America that blacks fail, but some how it just happens to miss Asians who are non-white. The argument doesn’t hold water. Blacks are the masters of their own destiny and they should get off the victim train. Stop blaming others for their own failings and change their own lives.


73 posted on 03/30/2018 10:07:51 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Iron Munro

I saw the lines. As if.


74 posted on 03/30/2018 10:08:47 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In NY State, the first 30% of state budget money is earmarked for minorities! A huge effin number, that whites need not apply.

This idiot does not know what she is talking about.


75 posted on 03/30/2018 10:10:24 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Iron Munro

“For example, as an African-American woman, I can rarely find makeup that matches my exact skin tone. Though cosmetics companies have gotten a lot better at adding more diverse colors to their lines, I still most often have to buy two shades and mix them together to get a match.”

Oh the humanity. Well at least she doesn’t have to deal with the contradiction of being “high yaller”. I mean what if you are a lighter skinned African American and able to claim a portion of privilege but still cannot find the right makeup shade? How arfel would that be?


76 posted on 03/30/2018 10:10:53 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

White Privilege, is being able to find one of those customized key chains with your first name on it.


77 posted on 03/30/2018 10:11:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Iron Munro
"I’d like to take this opportunity to set the record straight. If you are a white person in America, you were born privileged. That’s just a fact.
78 posted on 03/30/2018 10:11:52 AM PDT by agatheringstorm
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To: Sopater
The best thing to do is just acknowledge it.

... and then give everything you have to someone who isn't white and just go away and die.

Here is a man blacks should look up to, respect and emulate

Instead they call him an "Uncle Tom".


79 posted on 03/30/2018 10:12:22 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: The Toll

Actually, it is majority privilege. White people here happen to be in the majority in this country and the culture is shaped towards the majority, as is any culture.
In China, there is Chinese privilege. In Russia, there is Russian privilege, etc.


80 posted on 03/30/2018 10:13:22 AM PDT by SteveO87
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