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OpEd: White People, It’s Time to Use Your Privilege, Whether You Believe You Have It or Not
NBC News ^ | September 24, 2017 | Jarrett Hill

Posted on 09/24/2017 5:36:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Windflier

Many,many people in my life assume I am a lib. I love my hairdresser and when she makes rueful jokes putting down the President I think of her lovely way with my hair and my kids’ hair and shut the heck up. Everyone at my kids’ schools too, I stay in my closet.

My friends know, and tolerate (even love!) me in spite of my politics. My extended family knows and they treat me with just the etiquette-allowed amount of disdain. Almost like I was a real person, you know what I mean.


141 posted on 09/25/2017 2:33:54 PM PDT by Yaelle (Socialism, faithfully implemented, delivers anguish and devastation. - President Trump)
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To: Yaelle
My friends know, and tolerate (even love!) me in spite of my politics. My extended family knows and they treat me with just the etiquette-allowed amount of disdain. Almost like I was a real person, you know what I mean.

Oh, I know exactly what you mean! LOL

My family loves me, but act like I've joined some creepy cult. Because I live halway across the country from them, they do try to stay off the subject of politics when I'm out there (which is rare).

142 posted on 09/25/2017 4:23:37 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: humblegunner
Well, your post about India & Pakistan and separation got me thinking... don’t forget that white folks have a bunch of dirtbags what need to get on out, too. ;-)

That's kinda where I was going with that. The country is divided more along ideological lines than racial lines. Sort of like the Hindus and the Muslims were, back when India gained its independence from Britain.

Those people had to geographically separate to stop the killing. I truly hope this country doesn't get there, but we might.

143 posted on 09/25/2017 4:43:50 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: TLI

Neat. My many times great grandfather got to Jamestown about 1630, and his family remained in the area for several generations. Our ancestors may well have been friends.


144 posted on 09/25/2017 5:51:15 PM PDT by Himyar (Comes A Stillness)
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To: Tammy8
If we can get jobs, possibly manufacturing or other things close to those communities we could improve their lives at least in better jobs available to them.

That's a start - then we have to start reversing the perverse incentives democrats put in place to keep blacks dependent and broken...

145 posted on 09/25/2017 8:43:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (What's next? Burning the US Flag on the sideline of professional sports games?! freeper AzJoe)
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To: Yaelle

Even in your “closet” you aren’t alone, you have God and Freepers .
Take care!


146 posted on 09/26/2017 5:14:32 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

If “white privilege” was real, there would be no black minority in this country. They’ve been handed every opportunity for 50 years, and most have opted to remain on the plantation as human livestock.


147 posted on 10/06/2017 3:48:32 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You know, it seems to me that what is labeled “privilege” is nothing of the sort. Viewed only through lenses of jealousy and hate, “success” only looks like “privilege”. The left have been so good at handing out their thick, dirty glasses that their followers can’t see straight.

Whether we are white or black, our parents and teachers (school teacher, life teacher, simply the ones from which we learn) have a great deal to do with our success. They instruct us on how to think, live, solve problems, relate to others, and just basically understand our surroundings. Without them, only the most determined learn how to think, behave, and live properly.

If the left has broken up your family, and made sure your education is crap, you cannot succeed - you lack “privilege”. Viola! - They have you now, because you have no background or foundation from which to view them properly as your enemy, and not your friend.

And we, white or black, succeed because we have learned how to properly behave in civilized society. (”I’m sorry, Officer, I didn’t realize I was going over the limit. Here’s my license.”) Just because the followers of the left don’t have that training doesn’t mean that those of us who do, are “privileged”. Don’t be mad at the successful. Be mad at those who made sure you couldn’t succeed. They did it on purpose so you would need them.

To you malcontent, “under-privileged” poor souls, here’s your first lesson: Shut up and stop ticking of those off us who have succeeded. Some of us would be more than happy to show you how to do it.


148 posted on 10/09/2017 1:41:43 PM PDT by HeadOn (I will not go quietly.)
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149 posted on 10/09/2017 1:55:30 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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