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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

A message for white people:

I know how jarring it may be to hear a non-white person, or maybe anyone, even say the words “white people,” as it can take on a pejorative connotation. That’s fine. This isn’t always comfortable to have to say, but that doesn’t make it any less true, necessary, or timely.

Before I get started, I want to be clear, this is for all white Americans. To my friend, to my foe. To my colleagues, my contemporaries, and my competitors. To the professional athlete and the pee-wee league coach. To my family members. From late night hosts to news anchors, faith leaders to police officers. School teachers, small business owners, and service workers. For allies and detractors, everyone.

I don’t have to waste much of my word count on how Donald Trump has been trying to bring us together… around dividing us into sides. It’s not necessary to explain the ways in which his rhetoric - via speeches at rallies, non-stop tweets, and numerous pieces of policy - has sought to elevate the discourse… to just beneath the floorboards.

There is more than enough coverage on all of that, but what this president has done to you, whether you voted for him or not, is put you into an awkward position that either requires your vocalizing your opposition to separate yourself or gleefully accepts your consent by only requiring you do nothing.

Yes, white people your trial subscription to Donald Trump’s America is over and you have to opt-out or start paying for it.

Sorry, but not sorry, you’re going to have to take a side. And yes, you have to do it now.....

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: antifa; blacks; racism; riots; sedition; splatter; trump; whites
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To: cymbeline

Multiculturalism is completely overrated.


41 posted on 09/24/2017 6:37:14 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Portrait of a rabid racist.


42 posted on 09/24/2017 6:43:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
The racist intolerant left wants to fight? Not a problem. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

43 posted on 09/24/2017 6:43:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is this moron babbling about?


44 posted on 09/24/2017 6:45:08 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about if we just give you one of “our white bread people, Jarret? OK? We’ll even toss in a bright woman named Collins.”


45 posted on 09/24/2017 6:45:31 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Apologize, pay, and kneel, White devils.

Accept that everyone of your race, including your ancestors and your children, is an evil destructive Privileged Oppressor.

Failing to do any of those things will - super ironically - get you branded with The Label.


46 posted on 09/24/2017 6:46:18 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No comments section?

Why not?


47 posted on 09/24/2017 6:46:21 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. Stand on your own.


48 posted on 09/24/2017 6:46:38 PM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: hal ogen

Suggest an alternative.


49 posted on 09/24/2017 6:47:59 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sorry, but not sorry, you’re going to have to take a side. And yes, you have to do it now.

Obama spent eight years doing his best to divide the country into sides. We're now seeing the result. Trump is undoing that damage piece by piece, and Hill can't stand it.

50 posted on 09/24/2017 6:55:10 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve been with Trump all along.

I think President Trump will do everything in his power to MAGA!

Liberals have been trying to destroy the USA for decades.

Lawless people are Miserable people, ... it’s their choice!


51 posted on 09/24/2017 6:56:33 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: Crucial

WASP culture = white privilege. The concepts of education, hard work, responsible reproduction, and overall personal responsibility are alien to some, and holding them to any such standards is now “raciss”. Decades ago we desegregated our schools and overturned Jim Crow laws to offer the WASP culture (with its benefits AND responsibilities) to black Americans; most tried, many failed, and now expectations beyond what one would expect of a pet are “raciss”.


52 posted on 09/24/2017 6:58:31 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

I’ll take a side. Please be patient. I’ll wait while this thing plays itself out. Too entertaining.


53 posted on 09/24/2017 7:05:33 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To black people: it’s time to get a job, earn your keep, and stop claiming to be victims, whether you think you are or not.


54 posted on 09/24/2017 7:05:38 PM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I stand with Trump. This wet-behind-the-ears bully can take his narcissism, which is what it is after all, elsewhere.


55 posted on 09/24/2017 7:08:37 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

As another FReeper posted a while back, for this kind of war we’re born in our uniforms. My children understand that as well...


56 posted on 09/24/2017 7:09:20 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He looks like your typical gang banger.


57 posted on 09/24/2017 7:11:21 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I know how jarring it may be to hear a non-white person, or maybe anyone, even say the words “white people,” as it can take on a pejorative connotation. “


It’s not jarring,it’s the ultimate compliment.

.


58 posted on 09/24/2017 7:12:01 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Himyar
Yup.

I am sure our folks met at that party.

Ultra-great GF picked his side around 1670-ish, Jamestown colony, from Scotland.

.

59 posted on 09/24/2017 7:14:50 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My White Privledge exists only in your twisted mind.


60 posted on 09/24/2017 7:14:54 PM PDT by moehoward
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