The original sin of white privilege

The Globe and Mail ^ | May 27, 2017 | Margaret Wente

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I hate the term “reverse racism”. Racism is racism.

[Slyfox]

[umgud]

let me say it one more time: We shoulda picked our own cotton.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

In this case the young man pointed out that he had easy access to Jamaican food but no access to Scots food.

[jeffersondem]

“After they had completed the exercise, the students were asked to line up in order, from least points to most, and discuss the impact of white privilege on their lives.”

Or try this exercise.

If you are white, interrupt the female consultant trainer at the next corporate diversity workshop and ask her to “please bring me a glass of cold tea, honey.”

If she sweetly brings the correct beverage, you have white privilege.

If you are fired by close of business that day, you do not have white privilege.

Caution, do not initiate this exercise unless you are independently wealthy.

[windsorknot]

I was born a poor, “white-privileged” boy, but I won’t play their stupid game. I feel no guilt or shame in who I am.

[Repeal The 17th]

Both of my parents worked in cotton mills and lived in mill housing.
All of my grandparents did the same thing.
My great-grandparents were all share-croppers.
How do I score my white privilege?

[boop]

We can't win for losing.

"Can you find foods at the supermarket that fit your cultural heritage?"

Well, I felt like tacos for dinner, but that would be "cultural appropriation".

So I'm a bad boy no matter how I answer.

Obvious this is the hidden "lesson".

And FFS, does EVERY supermarket HAVE to have each and every "cultural food"?

Good grief, every once in a while I like to have something Asian. And they don't carry what I want at Safeway.

So, psssst... I go to an Asian supermarket to get what I desire.

A radical and probably "racist" action to be sure.

But I cannot find certain products EXCEPT at a specialty market.

And BTW, these ethnic markets often DON'T carry anything besides, well, what those folks enjoy either.

Maybe the Asian and Indian markets should be FORCED to carry hamburger meat and hot dogs.

Otherwise it would make them "culturally insensitive" to MY needs.

Where's my lawyer?

[Ciaphas Cain]

LOL!! Like being gay/bi/transwhatever?

"I can't help it that I'm white, this is how God made me!"

[meyer]

When they start an AA program that favors white people, then I will begin to actually be able to count white privilege. Right now, wight folk got to work twice as hard for twice as long to get half as far.

[DoughtyOne]

I saw that. Kind of funny actually.

How should he answer?

He could find good and bad to report.

This is so over the top > IMO.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yep, that drives me nuts more than anything (look at my tagline). What kind of country are we when someone, anyone is above the law? Whatever happened to “equal justice for all”? As a US citizen it is an OBLIGATION of the government to indict and prosecute this woman in a court of law and to have justice served. This is not something where they pick and choose, no no no, it is EQUAL JUSTICE not “some justice”. And BTW, if conservatives want to fight back against all the attacks on Trump, may I suggest we ALL start a campaign to see this criminal bitch indicted and prosecuted once and for all because SHE is the one behind all this Trump/Russia/impeachment crap. Hillary is the one using her political and media contacts to shove this garbage down the publics throat 24/7 and the only way it’s going to stop is when she is LOCKED UP! That should be the #1 focus right now,

[saywhatagain]

:So much for white privilege. Time to rip up that lesson and move on."

I do not see any organized effort to stop this hate. One day my grandchildren will wake up and wonder what happened. The men before us who paid with their lives the freedoms we enjoy today will forever be forgotten.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Of course it is over the top.

And what about those people who happen to like foods that are from other cultures?

Am I allowed to eat Pierogi and blue dumplings but not potstickers?

The mom has it right that liberals are trying to force people into little boxes.

They are pushing for minorities (however they define them) to feel isolated, put upon and oppressed. That way they will turn to the benevolent liberal to guide them.

[GOPJ]

I spoke with Ms. Walker after the program. Other parents in the school were also uncomfortable, she said, but were reluctant to speak up. As a dark-skinned person, she felt she could stick her neck out. “A lot of people are afraid to say that this is racism,” she told me. “But it is.”

She's right it is racist and we all have to stand up to the hateful 'progressives' pushing this crap.

[PGR88]

How to stop these fascist leftist social-engineers?

[TBP]

Mythology.

[Slyfox]

I totally agree with you. Take a gander at my profile page Clinton Crime List. And, I haven’t even updated it with all her Secretary of State and 2016 campaign felonies yet.

[boycott]

I had lunch today with a friend that said his 4 year old grandson was denied acceptance to an advanced school because he’s white. He had the highest test scores but they gave the position to a black kid.

The white boy is 4 years old and already being discriminated against. I am sick of it.

[combat_boots]

Then, it is time to band together and make sure the little guy gets the best education possible.