Posted on 07/18/2013 11:10:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If there is one hopeful note amid all the anguish and recrimination from the acquittal of George Zimmerman, it’s that growing numbers of white people have come to appreciate whiteness for what it is: an unearned set of privileges. And as a result of that dawning awareness, it’s become possible to imagine a day when that structure of privilege is dismantled — by white people.
Recall that immediately after the killing of Trayvon Martin, people of every race took to the Internet to declare “I am Trayvon Martin.” They wore hoodies. They proclaimed solidarity. That was a well-meaning and earnest attempt to express empathy, but it also obscured the core issue, which is that Martin died not because he was wearing a hoodie but because he was wearing a hoodie while black. Blackness was the fatal variable.
And so now, postverdict, a more realistic meme has taken root. On Tumblr and Facebook and elsewhere there is a new viral phenomenon: “We are not Trayvon Martin” (emphasis mine). Huge numbers of white Americans are posting testimonials and images to declare that it is precisely because they are not black that they have never had to confront the awful choices Martin faced when Zimmerman began to pursue him.
This isn’t about empathy or the posture of equivalency that empathy can tempt us to assume. It’s about owning up to the unequal privilege of being nonblack and saying, in essence, “I am George Zimmerman.” And because I am George Zimmerman, I get to have my fears trump reality. I get get-out-of-jail-free cards. I get a presumption of innocent victimhood, no matter what my own acts or attitudes....
(Excerpt) Read more at ideas.time.com ...
Not that long. Time was considered right of center in the 1950s.
“Four of my last five bosses have been black women.
Tell me again about my white privilege.”
Well, Gamey, maybe you should give up being a beautician, and become an electrical engineer!
I am not priviledged for anything.
I work hard for everything I have and nobody ever gave me a damn thing, because I didn’t ask.
I didn’t set around and draw a goverment check ever a day in my life.
I earned it by the holes in my boots.
If someone doesn’t like that I am white they can shove it up their a$$. I don’t owe nobody a damn thing!
NOTHING!
Not by those knowledgeable. U.S. News & World Report, under David Lawrence, was the right of center news weekly.
When Whitaker Chambers woke up, and turned against the Communists, he revealed much about the Time he worked for earlier. But, personally, I was on a TV panel program in the 1960s & 1970s, and we had a guest--I believe in the 60s, who had been in our intelligence out of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and he told us that Communist intelligence recognized that Time was the voice of those who wanted to change America; while U.S. News was the voice of the establishment.
As one who regularly saw both, I would confirm the truth of that assessment.
William Flax
Who the hell actually thinks like this? If someone wants to strike it rich, start making designer strait jackets. Many, many of them.
Ping
What is pathetic about this continuous line of attack, is that so few recognize what is really behind it, and that is a snap-shot view of reality, which denies the very concept of multi-generational purpose. If you deny multi-generational purpose, you deny the fundament of Constitutional Government, which from the Preamble on, looks to same.
William Flax
“The three fold strategy to silence and control white people.
1. yell racism at every white person you disagree with
2. use threats of violence
3 A. make a huge deal over it anytime a white guy is alleged to have committed a crime against a black person.
3 B. completely ignore the more commonplace black person committing a crime against a white person.”
Unfortunately their you owe me entitlement driven mind set is being fostered,perpetuated and supported by a perception of wrong doing as defined by the bizzoro world shame street media.
Case in point, a major home improvement warehouse chain with merchandise walking out of the front door has employees reprimanded by management for trying to detain and question the vandals. One told the store employee in an indignant tone” you don’t want to go there”. Its fear of factors and it will destroy the USA, too many freeloaders getting by with to many it’s OK passes. Nowhaimsaaain?
There are poor whites and lower middle white and middle whites and upper class whites. There are poor blacks and lower middle blacks and middle blacks and upper class blacks.
There are, however, more blacks in the poor category. Hussein and Holder can fix this and are on that path. When massive numbers of whites outnumber blacks in the poor category, then we will begin to approach fairness. Unfortunately, those massive numbers of whites who were once working and paying taxes, are not paying anymore.
Well, the rich must pay more to keep up with food stamps for the now many millions of poor whites and still the poor blacks. Soon, the rich won’t be rich anymore because no one has a job so can’t buy the products of the rich. Eventually, the rich are also poor. Now, we are really becoming FAIR. The only privileged class left is the blacks in government positions. NOW WE ARE FAIR.
Oh, I left out the homosexuals. They all died with AIDS or the new lung disease they get.
Until Hussein and Holder are blasted out of their positions, the above is not too difficult to believe.
So I actually responded online at the Time website and posted this, which got seven “likes” before it was buried in the 2,400 + other comments.
“The scariest thing about this writer’s outlook is how closely it matches the antisemetic Jew-hating from the previous century. A group of people with privilege are manipulating society and pushing everyone else around, controlling the money and power. Of course I’m saying that the end game here is genocide - we’re just at the inflammatory mob stage of this kind of thinking. The emotionalism and sheer insanity of the racists - and I include the writer in this category - is frightening to witness. Eventually someone will make the argument that the best way to deal with “privilege” is the wholesale theft from “whites” and just killing them because they are naturally “racist.” God help us.”
Someone commented back and wrote:
“This is exactly right. This is about dehumanization.”
The left has been formulating mass murder ever since the Committee for Public Safety scoured the streets of Paris to murder priests, nuns, and those who disagreed with them. They’ve told us their next target - after all, it’ll be easy to spot them just by looking. The thing that’s hard to believe are the numbers of white leftists who promote this kind of thinking, but, then again, Lenin didn’t emerge with the concept of “useful idiots” out of thin air.
You are talking about the 60s and 70s (and I agree with you there), but in the 50s, it was a Hearst magazine and right of center. Both Time and USN&WR, later, were taken over by Democrats.
Writers at Time and other liberals complained about Luce the way they complain about Murdoch today, to the point where many thought there was some major cultural divide between the brutish, philistine Luce and the sensitive, creative writers. But it was all about politics. Once the writers were cut loose from Luce's rule, there wasn't any great rise in the magazine's quality -- if anything, quality declined over time.
Every racial group that has come to the United States has started at the bottom. They live in black neighborhoods when they get here because they can’t afford better. They go to crappy schools and somehow get educated. Then they work hard, start businesses, play fair and in a short time they join the American mainstream.
The reason blacks are still at the bottom has NOTHING to do with the endless ‘help’ they’ve been given. It is NOT the fault of white people, or of Asians, or Hispanics.
My son was a member of Mensa. He studied in high school, took advanced classes, lettered in tennis, work with the water study scientific group with NASA in the summers from the time he was a high school Freshman. A group of his scientific high school friends had a party at our house. When they left, the house was cleaner than when they got there.
He spent four years at Rice University where he was in Mensa. Yes, he was smart, but lots of smart people waste their life on drugs. Learning was his goal - not marijuana or PCP or Watermelon drink with skittles and cough syrup to get high.
I could apologize because he is white but that has nothing to do with what is inside him. He is a fine person and he did it. I don't think he has ever owned a hoodie - I'll have to ask him.
That black medical neurologist/surgeon (forget his name right now) followed the same path my son did. He studied and learned. What happened to that model?
I knew I was going to college from the time I knew what one was. I went, I studied, I got degrees, I got a job - had one all my life. Where is that model? Did I do it because I was white? No, I liked learning.
I just give up on this country, it's such a mess.
I am the recipient of their perceived “white privilege”. Let’s see how that goes: I had a stable home with both a father and a mother who watched what I was doing and taught me right from wrong. They saw that I went to school every day, respected my teachers, and did my homework. We were lower middle class, but they saw that I was well fed and properly clothed through their ability to make do and make ends meet. More than once we gathered as a family, discussed our situation, and reached the conclusion that “we’ll just have to tighten our belts”. They knew who my friends were and what we were doing when we were out of their sight. When I entered the work force, I started at the bottom and worked my way to the top of my abilities and efforts. I’ve always found that the harder I work, the luckier I get.
The black community can defeat so-called “white privilege” by creating stable homes with both a mother and a father, and following the road map laid out above. They, and the white liberals that feed their misery, can cease trying to make me feel guilty for being white. I’m not having any of it.
“Wonder what the meetings are like?”
My son said those people were not very interesting and neither were the meetings.
Of course it is. Whether it is the son of a British earl or the daughter of a US political family, both have benefited from their family's struggle to advance, and are privileged relative to others from a lower class.
However, I do agree with you on your other paragraph. Like you, I see multi-generational purpose as good, but I am willing to recognize that it results in a privileged position for the later generations.
We just need everyone to work towards gaining a privileged position, rather than deciding because of envy to attack those that have one.
Me too. A Latino and an African-American fight and an extremely privileged Asian-American guy lectures about "White privilege," and somebody actually thinks the thing is worth publishing. I thought we "got beyond" all this nonsense.
I can not help that blacks feel they are being discriminated against. They've whined about it to the point they're making it reality, because people are sick of hearing it. They're making fools of themselves over Martin, just as they did brawley, oj, and the black whore in the Duke case. By acting irrationally, they're turning whites and Latinos (who don't already have a low view of blacks) against them.
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