“White people must also tell every white person they meet that he enjoys white privilege.”
It’s not “white privilege”.
It’s “Puritan work ethic”.
Some people don’t realize that some cultures ARE more successful than others precisely because they normalize successful behaviors; likewise, some cultures are less successful because they normalize behavior that impedes success. Problem is, they view all cultures as “equal” when they’re not, and so have to explain the success of one over another as a matter of “racism” or “privilege” - and so, by normalizing that kind of erroneous blame, continue their own failure.
Having spent 11 or so years out of 14 of my first 14 in a foreign country where I was as brown as everyone else, I didn’t know I was a “white person” until I was quite older. I thought I was “like” all my friends who were all “like” me...some a little browner or darker and some lighter but “like” each other. I never see a black person and think, “Oh, look. A Negro.” Never. I never think anything, actually. Sometimes I admire flawless skin, but color? No.
So, I don’t see it. But I felt it when I was teaching in areas where black kids were in college and perhaps were a little nonplussed by what my courses required. Then they alone, not the American Indians, India Indians, Hispanics ,Latinos, or Hmong but only the blacks wanted special favors like videos of me teaching so they wouldn’t have to go to class, they wanted grades on a curve where everyone passed no matter what and they most definitely did NOT want to read a word from a scientific text.
They really disliked me and I was O.K. with that. Everyone else thought I was hard but fair. And I was O.K. with that.
Exactly, it's culture rather than race. Though some cultures, I'm thinking of our inner cities, do revolve around race. Academic "cultures" as well