Posted on 05/12/2021 2:07:36 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Is this some sort of Jeff Foxworthy joke?
For several years I was expected to put in 5 hours of OT for free.
My score, 23. A guess at my black grade school classmates’ score, 29. I guess they were white after all.
I have never been denied an opportunity because of my gender.
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Well, they would not let me shower with the girls after PE.
They mentioned cable and Internet. They didn’t include, “Our TV picked up BOTH TV channels without moving the antenna...”
Heck, I spent 4 years of my youth in places without ANY TV at all. In a way, that WAS a part of my “privilege”. Pity more folks can’t live a while without TV & Cable & Internet.
One of my Hispanic friends invited us to her daughter’s birthday party.
DD and I were the only non-Latino people there. We are both super pale with red hair.
I understand a little Spanish and heard one of the littler kids saying “Mama! Look at the Americans’ hair!”
I will GIVE you the Strawberries - THAT is some back-breaking labor to pick those suckers!
I spent MANY summers picking Raspberries with my MIL, though. We’d pick 8 hours a day, M-F, then take them to the Farmer’s Market on Saturday, sell out, and head home with $3K in cash. :)
FIL was great about tying the canes UP so we could pick across from one another and talk the day away, but I still saw Raspberry Canes any time I closed my eyes to try to sleep.
FIL said he saw rows of corn or soybeans from harvesting when he laid down for a nap. ;)
I had tweed jackets that I wore for 20 years.
Several pairs of jeans for ten years. And yep socks and underwear-about a dozen pairs every four years or so.
I don’t need to wear a suit very off so the one I bought 20 years ago is now back in style!
Did you also get the ‘Eighteen and OUT!’ speech?
Definitely. One day my Dad told me that they would help with my college tuition, but I had to move out of the house and either go to a college away, or if I stayed near home I still had to get an apartment, I couldn’t live at home. My Dad also said that they felt that all they owed me was an education, and that they were going to leave all their money to charity when they died, so don’t expect any inheritance.
So I went away for my first year of college, and when I come back home for the Christmas holiday I found my father had converted my bedroom into an office for himself. (In fairness, they did get a sofa bed so I had somewhere to sleep when I came back to visit.)
My parents and I always got along well but I definitely was kicked out of the nest because they wanted to make sure I grew up.
“...but I definitely was kicked out of the nest because they wanted to make sure I grew up.”
Funny how that works 99.999% of the time! :)
“Our TV picked up BOTH TV channels without moving the antenna...”
Back in the day it was point it at NYC if you wanted news about murders and towards Philadelphia if you wanted fires.
LOL......best one, yet.
Hunter's sequel to his flopola book is entitled: "Son of Privilege: White Supremacy Worked for Me. It Can Work For You."
I’m surprised this didn’t have an ad for the local mental health clinic at the bottom.
I read something once not long ago that makes far too much sense:
“There is no White Privilege, if by privilege we mean the commonly understood definition of conferred special rights and advantages. There is White aptitude, competence, and civilizational success, earned over millennia of evolutionary and social selection, which is bitterly misconstrued as privilege.”
My parents were not poor, but all six of their children worked at various jobs from the time we were quite young. My first paying job was picking berries in 1962, at age 7. I don’t think kids that young are even allowed to work these days, except on their families’ farms and such.
I am a poor 65yo orphan who was brought up in handmedowns and sears sales clothes, has been catcalled (decades ago), made fun of for wearing combat boots, didn’t have cable until 2009, or a cell phone, whose been sexually harassed by lesbians, discriminated against by gays, bullied by minorities and who wasn’t paid as much as a man. Ever. Oh, and had empty nest divorced parents who never buried the hatchet making for crazy siblings. Woe is me!! I am oppressed!!! Gimme free stuff!! Good grief.
If this ‘checklist’ is an example of the people who will fight ww3 against people who won’t care about privileged status, all I can say is, I’m glad I’m old.
Had a person spit in my face for no other reason then my skin color. Harassed by gays. Robbed by street thugs at 12. Harassed by people I worked with because of my skin color. Harressed by fellow employees because I always outperformed them.
It’s ok…. HG is fidgeting again. Hasn’t been able to call someone a blog pimp in the last 3.956234 minutes. Although, that sometimes is a useful service. (Now add - 1.934139574 minutes due to typing issues)
/eyeroll
Head hanging appropriately, my parents stayed married their entire lives, both gone now, miss’em both.
My Father was, is, and always will be, my greatest hero!
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