White privilege diminishes our humanity: 10 Commitments for meaningful change

Seattle Times ^ | February 9, 2018 | Stephen V. Sundborg [SJ]

[C19fan]

At Seattle University, we challenge our students to engage in the difficult issues of the day with an open mind, respect differing viewpoints, discern the moral choices involved and act for the greater good.

I took this Jesuit approach to heart after being asked to keynote Seattle’s annual Martin Luther King Prayer Breakfast in January. My instructions were as a white person to speak to white people about the system and culture of white privilege in our country, which oppresses blacks.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I took this Jesuit approach

That was your first mistake.

[Red Badger]

I do not accept the premise.

There is no ‘white privilege’ anywhere.

Each of us makes our own way, regardless of what others do or say.

Claiming ‘white privilege’ is just another excuse for failure of blacks to do what is right and necessary in order to be a successful human being instead of a parasite on society.............

[Red Badger]

If I were a Red Hawk, I’d be not only offended, but ashamed.................

[Skywise]

Yeah FU pal.

You want to start with priviledge destroying humanity? You can start by looking in the mirror. Not as a white man - but as a moronic socialist hellbent I making others paying for your so called sins both real and imagined.

I don’t recall Jesus saying to make your brother sacrifice for you nor do I recall him saying that Romans need to be destroyed for their privilege.

What He did SAY was that we are all one under God’s eyes. Something you seemed to have forgotten or never learned given your racist beliefs.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think one of the reasons Amazon is playing this striptease game about a second HQ (and laying-off people in Seattle) is that they can see Kashama Sawant is very likely the next Mayor of Seattle and that politics in general in that state is headed in a hard-left direction.

Jeff Bezos apparently only likes to push Liberalism when it negatively affects someone ELSE’S life.

[Jmouse007]

This racist "white priveledge" lie being widely promulgated is specifically designed to turn white Americans into third-class citizens.

It is the exact same method employed by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot in their so called "cultural revolutions" to demonize, marginalize and ultimately exterminate those within their societies that stood in their way from creating a Marxist, communist, socialist, dictatorship hell hoLe.

We had all better stand up againg this viciously dangerious, racist "white priveledge" lie or we are going to end up like those who failed to stand against this hate filled rhetoric.

[KC_Conspirator]

Beware of false prophets

[Midwesterner53]

My mother used to say there is no fool like an old fool.

[CrazyIvan]

Tell them they’re named for a .44 Magnum revolver and get their reaction.

[Larry Lucido]

Finally, no measure will dent white privilege until whites are changed by real, ongoing, open and fully enjoyed friendships with blacks. All whites must ask themselves how many black friends do I have? How many times have I been in their homes, enjoyed and relaxed with their families and lives, included them in my life?

[3boysdad]

What about the “black privilege” that oppresses blacks in Africa?

[robroys woman]

Yeah. That is not off my radar. :)

[robroys woman]

I tell people I left a place where my vote doesn’t matter, for a place where my vote doesn’t matter, but for the exact opposite reason. :)

[jonsie]

Amen, I have seen this to my area in NC.

[NorthMountain]

It is the exact same method employed by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot in their so called "cultural revolutions" to demonize, marginalize and ultimately exterminate those within their societies that stood in their way from creating a Marxist, communist, socialist, dictatorship hell hoLe. Also Hitler.

This "white privilege" stuff goes hand in hand with "heroic" paintings of "African" women holding the severed heads of "white" women. Demonization and dehumanization are propaganda tools of those who would commit genocide. The current anti-white hysteria is absolutely a parallel to the anti-Jewish hysteria in the Third Reich. While its perpetrators don't yet have the guts to actually try committing mass murder, they're certainly whipping themselves up to it.

Be aware.

Be prepared.

[clintonh8r]

Jesuits have always believed themselves to be intellectually and morally superior........They are the oracles of their own hubris.

[Paladin2]

The real trouble is SJWs working to make America like Venezuela.

[Larry Lucido]

There is a new segregation of blacks in redistricting, which pens blacks within one voting district so that their votes — if not challenged in the first place — do not expand beyond that district to elect many more representative officials. Whites must join the efforts, led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, to counteract this unjust segregational redistricting.

As I recall, these black districts were gerrymandered by blacks for blacks.

[NorthMountain]

All whites must ask themselves

Must?

NO.

Your move.

[3boysdad]

Don’t you know this is how liberal cancer spreads? They should stay in Washington. See, liberals (aka demonRats) screw up everything they touch and ruin it for everyone else. Then they “wake up” one day and decide something has made their home town a cesspool, but they’re not sure what it was. So they use their “smart” hippie brains to pack up the mystery machine and head for “greener pastures”, where, VIOLA, the whole damn obscene circus starts all over again... in a community near you!