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'White privilege' is real and it matters
Oregon Live ^ | November 29, 2014 | Cathy Busha

Posted on 11/29/2014 9:18:34 PM PST by Bettyprob

I am writing in response to Kurt Miller's Nov. 22 guest column, in which he states that "white privilege is a racist term."

The definition of white privilege I use is from Dr. Beverly Tatum, who writes, "White people ... sometimes struggle with the concept of white privilege. What are the benefits or the advantages to being white in a society that has historically given benefits and advantages to members of the dominant group? If you are a person who has that privilege, you don't necessarily notice it."

I'd like to think I have earned everything I have through my hard work. However, I must acknowledge that my skin color — white — has provided my white ancestors and me with not just privileges, but cumulative advantages.

White privilege, then, is not a "stereotype," as Miller wishes. It is a fact.

For example, in 1993, I applied for my first professional job as a middle school teacher in rural Pennsylvania and was hired. As I reflect back now, I didn't meet a single person of color during the entire hiring process. The principal was white. Every teacher I met was white. The superintendent was white, as was the entire school board.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: beverlytatum; blackkk; cathybusha; editorial; ferguson; kenyanbornmuzzie; kurtmiller; missouri; oregonlive; pennsylvania; privilege; whiteprivilege
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What a load.
1 posted on 11/29/2014 9:18:34 PM PST by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob

Oh STFU, Cathy.


2 posted on 11/29/2014 9:20:08 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Bettyprob
rural Pa is farm country and it is white...if she wanted the drama and the violence of "diversity" she could have applied for a job in inner Philly....

looking for her 15".

3 posted on 11/29/2014 9:20:57 PM PST by cherry
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To: Bettyprob

Someone needs to shake a large can full of pennies every time one of these insufferable chunks of human detritus opens their stupid cake holes.


4 posted on 11/29/2014 9:21:11 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.d)
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To: Bettyprob

more like

The Race Card... it’s real and it’s what actually matters!


5 posted on 11/29/2014 9:23:29 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Bettyprob

Oh well. May the best color win then. Second place ain’t bad.


6 posted on 11/29/2014 9:23:59 PM PST by Dallas59
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To: Bettyprob

Lesbian social justice instructor. Spends her life teaching non Whites, non Christians and non Heteros that Whitey be keepin’ ‘em down.


7 posted on 11/29/2014 9:27:23 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Bettyprob

In the course of my six-decade white male life, the vast majority of my superiors were women and/or people of color. Moreover, every promotion I ever applied for, with one exception, was given to a woman and/or a person of color—and that one exception was the promotion that was given to me.

I would have been happy to check my white privilege, if I had ever had the chance to see it in my life. Nevertheless, I am told on a perpetual basis that I am the one with the privilege and I haven’t reparated that privilege enough, when it has never been the case that I have been privileged. There may somewhere be such a thing as “white privilege,” but this white male has yet to experience it, much less enjoy it.


8 posted on 11/29/2014 9:28:01 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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What about the “black advantage”? Blacks get the benefit of being able to loot, rob, and burn as they did in Ferguson without any consequences. They have affirmative action in hiring. They get all the welfare, food stamps and Obama phones they want. Sounds like these advantages offset the alleged, so-called white privilege and it’s a wash. Even Steven.


9 posted on 11/29/2014 9:29:34 PM PST by HotHunt
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White privilege mean that you are five times less likely to be aborted. White privilege mean you are five times less likely to be murdered by some of your race. White privilege means you will never be called an Uncle Tom by some hateful liberal.


10 posted on 11/29/2014 9:31:28 PM PST by MNDude
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What are the benefits or the advantages to being white in a society that has historically given benefits and advantages to members of the dominant group?

No where near as good the benefits or the advantages to being non white in a society that has historically given benefits and advantages to members of the minority groups.


11 posted on 11/29/2014 9:31:55 PM PST by NoLibZone (I voted for Mitt. The lesser of 2 evils religious argument put a black nationalist in the W.H.)
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To: Bettyprob

I know of one job where I was told being white was why I was NOT hired.

Not sure how any white in this country today is anything other than disenfranchised, passed over, and blamed for everything wrong.

Even white woman Hillary got in the back of the bus to inexperienced half black Obama.

I know several friends who have their kids check ‘hispanic’ for race because they can pass as that. Setting up for future scholarships and jobs.


12 posted on 11/29/2014 9:34:24 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Bettyprob

Liberal guilt always devolves into insanity


13 posted on 11/29/2014 9:36:37 PM PST by Nifster
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To: HotHunt

Obey the law, work hard, practice good ethical standards and no matter what color race or creed, you too will inherit this so called “White Priveledge”


14 posted on 11/29/2014 9:41:21 PM PST by KTM rider
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listen stooopid... if you live in a 95%+ white town in a 95%+ white county, WHAT white privilege are you going to have???
15 posted on 11/29/2014 9:41:57 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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"I am writing in response to Kurt Miller's Nov. 22 guest column, in which he states that "white privilege is a racist term."

Why ? It is racist.

16 posted on 11/29/2014 9:42:28 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Eagles6

She probably celebrates Kwanzaa, too.


17 posted on 11/29/2014 9:43:03 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Bettyprob

It is so easy to observe how USA is being undermine and sent down the drain... by the Enemy Within, basically foreign or foreign-paid agents of IslamoNazism and Communists combined. USA is being destroyed from inside...

but even more fundamentally,
if USA is destroyed it will be beacuse of the incredible STUPIDITY of peole like this

what a load of krap!


18 posted on 11/29/2014 9:44:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Bettyprob

Everybody knows “white privilege” allows you to attack cops without consequence.

If Wilson’s attacker were white then he would have let himself be tackled, beaten, have his gun taken, and then be killed with his own gun. But since the attacker was not white he does not have “white privilege” and therefore Wilson killed him.

That’s “white privilege”, mmmm hmmm mmmm.

Some people struggle with the concept of white privilege, but it’s really simple: self pitying racists blame their failure on “white privilege”


19 posted on 11/29/2014 9:45:11 PM PST by Ray76 (Who gave the stand down order? Benghazi? Ferguson?)
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To: Bettyprob
Cathy Busha, of Southwest Portland, is a social justice educator.

Social...justice...educator.

An agitator and propagandist. An indoctrinator, not a teacher.

Shouldn't be allowed within half-a-mile of a school.

20 posted on 11/29/2014 9:46:27 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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