Posted on 03/26/2008 3:41:25 PM PDT by Callahan
I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life. I have chosen those conditions that I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographic location, though of course all these other factors are intricately intertwined. As far as I can tell, my African American coworkers, friends, and acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact in this particular time, place and time of work cannot count on most of these conditions.
1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.
3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
(Excerpt) Read more at seamonkey.ed.asu.edu ...
51. I can put Barry Manilow on my iPod without losing street cred.
52. I can dance poorly without somebody calling an ambulance.
53. I can make lists about white people that prove how sensitive and angst-ridden I am.
Wow, what a racist.
I'm tearing up as I write this.
54. As I White Person I can actually name my high school team after me and no one is offended.
55. I can pay as much taxes as the government tells me too and I have no right to complain because I'm privileged.
54. I can be a stupid whiny white girl without fear of being called and idiot.
55. Never mind..you stupid whiny idiot white girl..now you should feel better.
54. I can talk a good game and score points with my fellow hand wringers/thumb suckers/moral preeners, while secretly gloating that I have all this “privilege.”
I'm asian, and yet somehow, someway, I enjoy white privilege.
So, can we rename this white/asian privilege?
Or is this privilege open to pretty much everybody, since I seem to have it without having been born (and also not looking) white?
You can misspell privilege.
If someone looks at you, you can bellow in a booming, threatening, voice, "YOU LOOKIN AT ME, SUCKA?" and noone will say anything.
Oh,wait...nevermind.
Vietnamese came here destitute and now their children are honors students. And they (and other Asians) do great on IQ and SAT tests that are allegedly culturally biased. Maybe when you learn proper English, are intelligent, sober and apply yourself you become an honorary white
35. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race
Yeah Miss Piggy, we know how you got your job.
Hold on folks! Form a line: there's enough guilt to go around for anyone. Your four bucks is as good as the next typical white person.
Wonder whether she has enumerated all of the benefits of her “female privilege” that are denied to me on a daily basis because I am a man...
I drink a couple of bottles of bourbon every week.
However, to me, its about hard work, intelligence, and not being obsessed with trying to be a victim 24/7.
I can get a PhD without learning how to spell "privilege"
You can be denied admission to college despite having much better qualifications than “underrepresented minorities.”
That’s privilege!
man....I feel sorry for all that money her folks wasted on her
it shoulda gone for self esteem therapy....what a nuerotic beyatch
go have a few illegitimate black kids honey
atone....the world will pay for it
hey....actually as an Asian since you guys outperform even we racist white folks (and we all know Asians are even more clannish than folks admit)
any group that flourishes must feel bad and be blamed for those groups that don’t\
now drop down and give me twenty Mr Probably Better At Math Than A White Guy Dude!
/s
Exactly. Someone needs to come up with a counter list.
This excerpted essay is reprinted from the Winter 1990 issue of Independent School.
An eighteen year-old essay from a guilt-ridden Massachusetts liberal elitist.
(And Peggy? You might want to ask what behaviours are glorified in contemporary non-white communities -- e.g. "gangsta rap" and "narcotic" and "gang-banging" and "no family structure" -- which might change the dynamics of inter-racial relations in a game-theory sort of way...)
'Nuff said.
Cheers!
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