Y’all squandered your white privileges.
In this Marxist administration, people like you don’t exist.
Great story! Inspiring and refreshing! Thanks
In short, your parents raised you right and never told you that you were a victim.
When I told my grandmother years ago as a teenager that I wished to be rich, she said “This is America, what’s stopping you?”.
Multiply times 100,000’s for the nation.
Asian immigrants often embrace the American Dream. They come here unable to speak the language and unfamiliar with our culture, but they work very hard. Their children become educated and financially successful.
“White Privilege” is another lie being promoted by the left in order to excuse their lack of success and to make them feel better about their miserable lives.
Too bad they have to find comfort through pulling others down. America needs to start celebrating achievers again. We have spent way too much time protecting, promoting and excusing losers, and the dysfunctional.
February 2002
At a Senate Budget Committee hearing last week, Sen. Robert Byrd, who was named after a bridge in West Virginia, viciously attacked Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill for having made a success of himself. Claiming to speak for worthless layabouts, Byrd snippily informed O’Neill: “They’re not CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations. ... In time of need, they come to us, the people come to us.”
“I haven’t walked in any corporate boardrooms. I haven’t had to turn any millions of dollars into trust accounts. I wish I had those millions of dollars.”
An astonished O’Neill responded to the harangue: “I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don’t cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch.” And then the hearing spun totally out of control as Senator Byrd redoubled his own sob story: “Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity, too, no running water, no telephone, a little wooden outhouse.”
I had the similar “white privilege” advantages, but I did have parents (note the plural form of the word parent.)
“White privilege” is the observation by those who refuse to follow Western/Judeo-Christian ethics and fail
of the propensity of those who do follow those ethics to prosper.
What’s interesting to me .. all these people crying “white privilege” .. have no clue they live on “The Privileged Planet”.
Anybody who watches that DVD can come away with an awe-inspiring picture of just how “privileged” all humans are to live on this planet, EARTH.
So, in that context, ALL HUMANS ON THE EARTH - ARE PRIVILEGED.
White Privilege is a pejorative designed to perpetuate the cycle of racism for a new generation.
It is the creation of black caucaphobic leftists and their self-hating white enablers, and I will have none of it.
These days, I answer every accusation of racism by totalitarian leftist by accusing them of indulging in caucaphobia.
I hope that word catches on. It’s long overdue.
I grew up VERY poor in Oklahoma. We couldn’t even afford a Barbie Doll, they were about $2. We were SO poor. But we were expected to grad from HS and then college and we all did. I paid my own way with bank loans, couldn’t get student loans. Repaid them on time in full! Got a double major in 4 years. Worked summers during college at a factory without any AC. 106F outside meant 110F inside. It was hot Our house had no heat or AC until we moved in 1967. Summmers were HOT, in the 100s. Winters were COLD, in the single digits, freezing - snow - ice - wind etc.
I can identify with the house you described...
“houses with unheated bedrooms in the winter”
We didn’t even have fans. there was one suction fan half way up the stairs but it didn’t pull any air from my window to my bed. I went to sleep with my face resting on the windowsill!
Daddy put a water cooler in the kitchen but it was at the opposite end of the house, from my bedroom, and my bedroom was on the second floor. there was a floor furnace on the first floor but the heat didn’t make it to the second floor, plus we turned it off at night for fear of the pilot light going out.
At some point Daddy put a window unit AC in the living room, but that cool air didn’t make it up the stairs to my room. I don’t remember an AC unit in my parents’ bedroom.
Nights were HOT. If only we had a fan or a breeze, but I think fans back then had metal blades and not much of a grill on front to protect tiny fingers from those blades.
But we were super healthy and hard workers. We all did well in school. Not rocket scientists, but did just fine. Our schools had no AC back then either, but they did have heat!
Later in the '60s, my old neighborhood was infested by those who now bitch about "White Privilege".. They bought into Johnson's "Great Society", ignoring his disparagement of them, and felt the need to occupy themselves with wanton destruction and servitude to the government that despises them.
They were well on their way to what they purport to want, but opted to become slavish victims to a corrupt Democratic Party. They now fester in that which they helped create and can't remember what it was like to be free.
A most excellent rant!
Instead, we got blamed for all the self-inflicted pathologies of non-Whites.
Easy for you, but how about accomplishing all of that after a cop frisks you at random on a New York City street on Nov. 17, 2009 (and come up clean)? Life gets VERY COMPLICATED then, as you have to spend the rest of your life plotting ways to exact revenge.