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This "privileged" white guy has been up since 4:45 AM to get a start on the work day. Do this six days a week and am on call on the 7th.
1 posted on 12/04/2014 7:09:41 AM PST by artichokegrower
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Hmm.. My white privilege has gotten me zero scholarships for college, so I went with ROTC to fund it. Issues with the Guard liaison / education funding cuts now mean my privileged butt has half a degree and no expectations to get back into college for a while. My privilege has gotten me a 19 year old car that has plenty of issues yet still manages to get me from A to B.

I work in an industry (Corporate AV) that includes lots of new, young people who have no clue what they're doing, as my company nickels and dimes everything. We hire complete noobs, and have little training. For the whites/hispanics, I'd say you have a 50-50 split on decent people/idiots. But for blacks, I've met 2-3 that are actually good workers. A bunch are decent personally, but as a whole they have little idea of what it means to show up on time, or even bother to call in if they have car issues/overslept. One dude recently just couldn't learn anything, complete idiot. Then he put in his two-week notice, and the first day back at work, he no-showed. Turned out later he took a week trip down to Austin and didn't realize/care he was still expected to work for those two weeks...
29 posted on 12/04/2014 8:00:13 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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Charles Barkley says theres a reason Blacks do not get the benefit of the doubt. Respect is earned, not just given.
Change culture.


31 posted on 12/04/2014 8:10:56 AM PST by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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White privelege is being able to find your name on a keychain in the store.


32 posted on 12/04/2014 8:33:54 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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The guilt trippers along with the SJWs are over playing their hand and the backlash will be harsh.
33 posted on 12/04/2014 8:51:55 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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Let’s not be so selective in our comparison examples. Bear Brown was shot by a police officer after Brown attacked him in his car and then charged at him outside the car.

The scrawny homeless autistic kid in Riverside, Ca. was beaten to death on the street by five rabid animals posing as police officers while he cried out for his father to come save him. The kid’s face did not look human after the beating and he died.

The black Mr. Brown deserved to be shot and in comparison, it was a merciful death. The white autistic kid did not deserve to be beaten and it was a horrifically painful death.


34 posted on 12/04/2014 8:54:07 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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White privilege means getting passed over for opportunities in favor of folks not nearly as qualified or interested.


35 posted on 12/04/2014 8:55:56 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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It’s a group identity thing... there’s an expectation that a fairly high number of white people are good - honest - and mostly trustworthy. There’s exceptions of course - go to any prison or jail to see violent white inmates. But overall not that many prison inmates are white in comparison to their share of the population.

There also an expectation that a fairly high number of blacks are dishonest, violent and untrustworthy. There’s exceptions - many - maybe most... . But go to our prisons, jails, and half way houses and they’re filled with blacks. Blacks who have ‘earned’ that place in prison. Considering blacks are only 13% of the population they are wildly over represented in the prison system.

That’s a real problem. Blacks earn their group identity by the actions of a large number of underclass thugs. People like Leonard Pitts Jr unfairly carry the stain of a violent black underclass. Pittman as an individual doesn’t want us to ‘see’ his group because his group’s not respected. White criminals benefit from a white group’s positive identification that they haven’t earned... the opposite of what Pitts has to deal with... an identification he hasn’t earned... but a negative one. In an absolute sense of justice - if each person was an island - Pitts would be right.

Pitts wants the easy way out - shame people into NOT seeing the world as it is... Insist that each man’s an island. - Buy into the PC race card solution. Demand that all people ONLY see ‘the tree’ and never the forest.

It won’t work. It’s not how how humans are wired. There are solutions - this isn’t one of ‘em.


39 posted on 12/04/2014 10:02:27 AM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos's a snake in the grass and a dem operative. Wilson should never have trusted him.)
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Bottom line: It’s good to be a white man. So thankful.


43 posted on 12/04/2014 10:28:12 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Any so called “white privilege” can be easily explained by the Bell Curve.


44 posted on 12/04/2014 11:41:30 AM PST by Graybeard58 (V.33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Corinthians 10:)
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