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HuffPo Author Breaks Down in Tears After Realizing She is Less Oppressed than Others
iOTW Report ^ | 10/16/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 10/16/2015 4:59:27 PM PDT by rightistight

Writing today in the Huffington Post, Jasmine Burton says that she broke down in tears after realizing that she is not as oppressed as other people in the United States.

Ms. Burton's article is titled "Finding My Place In the Fight for Social Justice and Health Equity" and recounts her struggles to find her "place in the fight for social justice."

One of Ms. Burton's seminal moments in social justice came during her "first privilege walk." She writes that the "instructor lined everyone up at the end of a hallway and told us to stand side by side. She said, "It's easy. Just follow the instructions.""

Then the instructor told members of the privilege walk to take a step back if they had "books in their house" and had parents who "tell you that they love you everyday," among other things.

According to Ms. Burton, she was "far out ahead of the majority of the group, almost in complete isolation," meaning she was drastically move privileged than her compatriots.

"That was the moment that I physically realized that because of my background and because of my incredible communities of support, I was well positioned in life," she writes, emphasis hers. "And it wasn't fair. I completely broke."

After the activity, she called her mom, weeping: "On the phone with my mom crying, I tried to put into words just how unfair it was. I felt like a sham -- trying to engage in the fight for social justice and health equity despite not experiencing nearly as much struggle or pain as my peers.

"As a bi-racial African American and Native American female who grew up in a predominately white and largely affluent suburban community in the American south, I felt that the discrimination and injustices that I grew up combating would never compare to that of my peers," she laments.

Ms. Burton adds, "The intersection of my identities and my maturation as a social justice advocate has helped me digest how the concepts of power and privilege play out in my life on both the American and global stages."

Then, she writes, she went to the Global Health Corps Fellowship this year and was told by a speaker, "in the marathon of life, you can always take another step towards social change." This made Ms. Burton break down in tears again.

"This last statement resonated with me and honestly brought me to tears because much of what he said is comparable with my personal struggle of being a person from a perceived privileged and, therefore, power-oriented background engaging in this fight for social justice," she concludes.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: huffpo; socialjustice
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To: ctdonath2
The problem isn’t money and stuff, it’s giving a dang enough to care for your own and show them how to survive on whatever they’re given, however little.

I have said for many years now that what the “under privileged” need more than charity is a good “Jewish mother”.

By that I mean someone to push them to achieve and never accept the excuse “I can’t do it’ or ‘I don’t care”.

The reason much more often than not that someone is living in poverty is that they never tried to get out.

41 posted on 10/16/2015 6:48:53 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Drango

That’s in macro, perhaps mega, or maybe even giga-aggression territory. How many billions of my brain cells succumbed while I read that tripe? What a certifiable lunatic.


42 posted on 10/16/2015 6:50:21 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: okie01; rightistight
Ms. Burton was made to feel ashamed because she came from a good home.

I wonder how much she paid to get her brain washed.

43 posted on 10/16/2015 6:55:02 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: rightistight

White liberals are insane. I’ll chip in to buy a cage.


44 posted on 10/16/2015 7:07:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: rightistight
"As a bi-racial African American and Native American female who grew up in a predominately white and largely affluent suburban community in the American south, I felt that the discrimination and injustices that I grew up combating would never compare to that of my peers," she laments.

maybe you should try adding LBTGQCD &/or just "seriously confused" to your resume - bet that'd do it for you.

I'm sorry... is it LBGT? LGBSCD? DQ?J? LSMFT? it's all so confusing.

45 posted on 10/16/2015 7:56:55 PM PDT by norton
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To: TheBigB

I’ve noticed the words “Intersection” or “intersectionality” are very common in left-speak. There’s are whole lot of other weird words and phrases that are part and parcel of the gobbledygook known as left-speak.


46 posted on 10/16/2015 8:08:52 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: rightistight

This whole thing made my head explode.
The excerpt was incomplete and had me scratchin my head.
Here’s where the blanks get filled in:

“Take one step forward if your parents went to college.”
“Take one step backward if you grew up not knowing if there would be food on the table.”
“Take one step forward if your parents tell you that they love you everyday.
“Take one step backward if you grew up not knowing if there would be food on the table.”


47 posted on 10/16/2015 8:12:53 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: rightistight

What does she want for her birthday?
A burkha!


48 posted on 10/16/2015 8:46:41 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Pontiac
I wonder how much she paid to get her brain washed.

I suspect her parents paid thousands for the "privilege"...

49 posted on 10/16/2015 9:22:14 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: rightistight

If I ever talk to a person that uses the phrase “Social Justice” in a supportive manner, it will be the last time I talk to that person.

Imagine if these people had to struggle to make ends meet like my Parents and Grandparents did during the Depression.


50 posted on 10/16/2015 9:27:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
If I ever talk to a person that uses the phrase “Social Justice” in a supportive manner, it will be the last time I talk to that person.

I hear the term in Church all the time.

51 posted on 10/16/2015 9:29:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rightistight
Number one, IMO, the girl is actually bragging that she is, in her opinion, well born, educated better than those she seeks to impress, and in fact feels superior in every way to those she is so condescending towards. Number two, she is probably going to use this tripe liberalease thought piece as part of her resume to get further toward another do nothing job with higher pay in her touchy freely progressive world of doing good deeds for those not as well born as herself.
52 posted on 10/16/2015 9:45:49 PM PDT by mountainfolk ((The past is prologue))
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To: mountainfolk

correction, next to last line of previous post. Should be touchy feely instead of freely.


53 posted on 10/16/2015 10:01:43 PM PDT by mountainfolk ((The past is prologue))
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To: rightistight

After the activity, she called her mom, weeping: “On the phone with my mom crying, I tried to put into words just how unfair it was. I felt like a sham -<<<

her mother should perform a late late late term abortion to end this sham!...All will be well then.......


54 posted on 10/16/2015 10:09:24 PM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: rightistight

55 posted on 10/16/2015 10:18:29 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: rightistight
SELF

LOATHING

LIBERAL

...it's a mental illness.

56 posted on 10/16/2015 10:58:34 PM PDT by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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