Posted on 07/10/2015 1:40:15 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I attended the Edmund Burke School, one of Northwest Washington’s small private prep schools, where college acceptance rates were close to 100 percent, students called our teachers by their first names, and — despite our de facto liberalism and the lip service we paid to the ideal of diversity — we were mostly white and well-off. Most of our parents were left-leaning architects or journalists, federal employees or lawyers, who thought their children would thrive best in small classes and had the means to make it happen. I was sheltered, and I knew it.
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I’d never had a job, but I knew where I wanted to find one. I’d spent the first few years of my life in Adams Morgan, a funky, diverse neighborhood and, in my eyes, the antithesis of Friendship Heights, the leafy, gleaming enclave my family had moved to. A few weeks before graduation, I spent a Saturday morning pacing 18th Street, stopping at every establishment with a “help wanted” sign, gravitating toward the places that fulfilled my vision of the city’s seedy underbelly: the late-night spots, the greasy pizza joints, the hookah bars.
I’m hardly the first privileged young man to go looking for grit. Others, from George Orwell to Chris McCandless, also have chafed against the neatness of their upbringings and tried to step outside their comfort zones. They found this to be the only tonic for their increasing unease with and burgeoning cynicism toward their backgrounds.
Nor, I’m sure, was I the first to learn that my mission was doomed to fail. No matter how blue-collar my surroundings, I’ll always carry the marked advantages of my educated, middle-class upbringing. Despite my total lack of relevant work experience, I leapfrogged straight toward management.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I found this hot mess on Fark. You should read the comments there too. Even the liberals there hate this d-bag.
Prolly didn’t have his butt crack showing either.
A dumb, boring article but the author is certainly pretentious enough to fit right in at the Washington Post.
OK, this one cracked me up...
“Hey, the African American dude who was frying things probably also speaks English. Or Ebonics. Who knows? Maybe he clicks and whistles. He should have asked.”
in a lot of these low paying jobs if you are willing to really work and view your time at work as the businesses time you will end up in management because a lot of times those working at the business wont give it 100 percent
I propose that to deal with his white guilt he should move into a zoo and eat dog food for the rest of his life.
I will agree to show up once a week to throw tomatoes at him to assist in his penance.
I’ll gladly beat him in the head till he has a TBI. That way he’ll never be privileged again.
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Please don’t do that. He could end up as a DC politician. Even the Vice President.
Most of our parents were left-leaning architects or journalists, federal employees or lawyers...
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Dude, let me set you straight. Your parents are upper-class, not middle-class. Middle-class parents don't send their children to prep school.
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True. But if it's a prep school nobody ever heard of, like his, he may be able to pass as middle class.
BTW, How did Edmund Burke end up left-leaning?
Suicide is his only alternative!
Seriously, that was the most boring, pointless article I have ever read. It could have been summed up in one sentence: “ I am an ungrateful little snob who tried my hand at associating with the lower classes.” That’s what I took from it anyway. I guess I missed the underlying wisdom.
He should go to Appalacia or the oil fields and find himself competing with other whites in hard physical labor. Then talk about white privileges.
“White privilege” translation = Be reliable
If a liberal whines in the WaPo, and there’s no one there to read it, does it make a sound?...................
Geez. He gets put on the cash register because the only thing his previous job experience (working “bake sales”) qualifies him for is making change, and he somehow imagines he’s been given a “management position”.
No matter what the color of your skin, if you show up to work on time with a pleasant positive attitude and establish yourself as somebody who is well spoken, responsible and reliable, you will quickly have opportunities open up for you.
If you add to those attributes innovation, initiative and leadership, then you could very well be running the place in short order.
Nope, not a thing.
Two digital pages (and a self-photo) full of drivel, nonsense and balderdash, generated by an self-absorbed, self-centered child-man.
” None of the people I worked with are there anymore, I don’t know where Catalino, Alex and David are now.”
Deported
BTW, How did Edmund Burke end up left-leaning?
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I hope his illustration ability is a better than his writing. That was pretty wordy with a lot of confirmational bias. Did he ever mention anything about minorities attending the same prep school as he did? Anyway, Vae victus victori spolia Woe to the vanquished, to the victor the spoils.
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