Posted on 12/07/2014 1:22:43 PM PST by Bettyprob
The concept of white privilege remains controversial in the same way people still argue about climate change. A small, increasingly-fringe faction might argue that it doesn't exist at all. Another broad, more conservative group might concede that it does, technically, exist, but still disagree about what it means, whether it's important and what, if anything, we can do about it.
Still, many others would argue that acknowledging and working to understand it is an important step toward fixing the problem -- in the case of white privilege, the problem being compounded, inter-generational inequality that, although sometimes subtle, is still present in the everyday lives of people of color.
Even if we concede that white privilege -- the idea that being born white comes with certain inherent advantages -- is "controversial," does that mean the topic shouldn't be broached in a college course?
According to one white Lone Star College-Tomball student, the concept is just too offensive -- offensive enough to file a complaint against his professor, according to Channel 2.
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It basically sounds as though AL Sharpton wrote it.....absolutely pathetic that she graduated.
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Its never ever been able “equal”. Its always their thinking slavery reparations should include their being privileged to escape all personal responsibility while being perpetually compensated at an NBA star’s level.
It wasn’t “billions” of dollars spent over 50 years on civil rights poverty programs.....it was TRILLIONS of dollars.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe you have to make a distinction between black and white under two different circumstances: a.) printing and b.) light.
Your description is correct, I believe, for printing.
But with light, it is contrary: white is all colors (see prism and associated spectrum), while black is the absence of light (thus, any colors).
Police Academy? Try Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Med School, Government... Frankly the best thing you can do is be black, and everyone knows it.
How about Black privilege? The right to spout off spontaneously in the face of anyone they want whom they may never have lay eyes on in their life and tell them accusingly how they think feel and act? How about the privilege to call all whites racist on the basis of their skin color? How about the privilege to finger point and crybaby self pityingly, commit acts of hate and violence without censure or judgment?
White privilege is very real, but it isn’t what the radical left wants it to be, and hasn’t been for a very long time, at least since other races and ethnic groups haven’t been restrained from it culturally. White privilege today isn’t about skin color or ethnicity. It is about culture. It is the culture that many blacks resist, but whites aren’t resisting them.
White privilege boils down to responsibility. Anyone of color who takes responsibility for their children, children who take responsibility for themselves, has full access to white privilege. By that I mean responsibility for their education, for their behavior and for what they want to get out of life.
The radical left, (Democrats) and many black people, are excusing lack of education, lack of prosperity, and lack of good behavior on racism and white privilege. They are excusing people who aren’t taking responsibility for themselves. It is absolute nonsense, and counter productive. Even if they can sell these straw man arguments to America, nothing good will ever come of it.
Granted, responsibility doesn’t always come easy, but blaming that difficulty on people who have learned to take responsibility for themselves to get what they want in life, is foolish. The irresponsibility trap that millions of inner city blacks are stuck in can’t be overcome by laying their predicament on the doorsteps of whites, or others. Trying to drag everyone down to that level does nothing but drag people of color further down. Black leaders and the social engineers of the radical left would accomplish much more by working to encourage young black people to study hard and learn to prepare themselves for success. Instead they glorify and excuse the cultural degradation of hip hop and gangsta’ behavior, looting burning, killing and violence. ...You get what you ask for.
Me too! I wonder if by “privilege”, they mean I have to work 60 hours plus every week?
“White privilege” is a concept invented by white liberals to explain why so many blacks are still ignorant. But it is no accident; white liberals control schools so that they can keep blacks down and blame it on white conservatives, thereby gaining the political allegiance of blacks.
With respect to color, what I wrote is correct, and what you wrote is substantially true, but actually incorrect in full generality. White is the presence of all colors. Black is the absence of color, not light.
Why is what you have written incorrect? Colors are wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum. But light is not limited to the visible spectrum. Black is the absence of all colors, but it is not the absence of light. X-Rays are light, so are microwaves. When you turn out the light in your bedroom, there is still light there [you are being bombarded by gamma rays from outer space, and long wavelength radio waves from terrestrial transmitters even in the dark.]
The only “privilege” white or otherwise is a work ethic. One just has to be willing to work in America to live better then most of the world. One has to be willing to work harder to live like a king comparatively. And one has to be willing to sacrifice capital AND to work hard to succeed financially beyond the wildest dreams of most of the world.
White privilege instruction is simply BRAINWASHING, which means implanting thoughts in peoples’ heads that are otherwise illogical.
As to the white privilege, tell that to the superstar academic Asians in California being DENIED admission in their top schools (i.e., some of the country’s top schools).
In the 1930, the colleges felt that there were too many JOOOOS attending, so they capped the number with a “Jewish Quota”...now they’re doing the same to Asians.
A bunch of us have similar stories like yours. I got passed over for promotion because of a “diversity” issue within the group for a position which I interviewed for. Nevermind that I was a “White Hispanic”. Two black males got the two open spots that five interviewed for.
Within six months, the first one was fired for insubordination, and another two years later the other let go for getting into multiple car accidents in company cars (among other things).
What a world we live in!
It seems to me that this so-called “white privilege” is nothing more that the observation that, on average, a black child born today might have a tougher row to hoe than the white child, on average.
My reaction to this observation is first, so what? There are all kinds of differences in the circumstances of birth among children; the character of their parents being principal among them, but also including health, wealth, class, family educational level and attitude toward education; the list is long, and race- while on the list - is by no means primary let alone distinctively determinative.
My second reaction is, well, what do you propose to do about it? The task of repairing the inequities of birth is gargantuan beyond human reach, and there is nothing special about race that makes it uniquely amenable to remedial action. The past decades have been spent in a futile effort to help black children overcome perceived racial disadvantage. The results have been, if anything, counterproductive.
So now the focus seems to be changing to the notion that if we can’t help minorities succeed, at least we can take action to help promote failure among the children of the majoritarian culture.
In ought not be necessary to point out that this is sheer insanity, that’s obvious.
But I do want to point out that this is a particularly corrosive and evil brand of insanity. It ought to be ridiculed, scorned and rejected by thinking people of all races. We make room for this kind of crap in our society at our own peril.
if there are no minorities where you live and work, WHAT white privilege are they talking about??? great swathes of the country simply don't have any, or damn few, but the stooopid libruls that do live there will be sucked right up into this nonsense
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