Posted on 03/30/2018 9:03:02 AM PDT by Iron Munro
People are uncomfortable with the term “privileged.”
Several readers took offense recently when I differentiated between privileged youths and underprivileged youths in a column about the March for Our Lives.
“Categorizing and generalizing of this type are just veiled forms of discrimination and/or racism,” one man wrote.
I’d like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.
If you are a white person in America, you were born privileged. That’s just a fact.
It’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s not anybody’s fault. There’s no need to get defensive about it.
The best thing to do is just acknowledge it.
Being privileged does not necessarily mean that you have a perfect life. It does not mean that you come from wealth or that you always obtain everything you want — or deserve.
It doesn’t give you a pass to be lazy and shiftless. It doesn’t automatically guarantee you success. White skin no more relieves you of taking responsibility for your life, working hard and thinking smart than it does for people with dark skin.
It just means that you have a head start over the rest of us.
White privilege means that you were born with an inherent advantage over every other race of people. The whiteness of your skin alone allows you to leave the starting gate quicker and to run the race with fewer obstacles. White skin comes with certain other perks, too, many of which are taken for granted.
American culture itself is white-centric. For example, as an African-American woman, I can rarely find makeup that matches my exact skin tone. Though cosmetics companies have gotten a lot better at adding more diverse colors to their lines, I still most often have to buy two shades and mix them together to get a match.
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That's why thousands and thousands of blacks leave racist America everyday and move to places like Haiti, Burundi, Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Places where they won't have to deal with the depressing, suffocating curse of a white population and White Privilege.
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The reporter is a racist.
Wrong, Dahleen Glanton. Your entitlement is the problem.
It sounds like Dahleen has been hitting the Starbucks a little too often. She sounds very angry about something.
Neither does being “underprivileged.”
The Dream is dead.
Color of skin wins over content of character.
The left is sending strong signals that they want to make Whites the new underclass. Especially white males.
They don’t want a color blind society, they want something completely different.
Of course they are, and I'm thinking they need a good size 13 boot of white privilege upside their head.
It appears to me that massive doucherbaggery is this racist punk’s primary problem.
Up your's......
Found in your local school every day.
Agreed. Those evil white people are so awful, no one should ever move to their neighborhoods.
Truly a heartbreaking tale of repression.
The author is trying to add a tone of moderation to soften his racism.
But like food that’s irreparably salty, you can still taste the smug.
It’s Black Privilege that allows untalented nobodies, like her, to get big paying jobs spouting their nonsense. CNN, MSNBC, FOX is filled with Black Privileged people like her.
Underprivileged = When You Didn’t Try Harder
Did Dahleen Glanton just tell the world she thinks Charles Murray was right?
Sick black culture is the problem.
“The best thing to do is just acknowledge it.”
Ok, you first. Acknowledge the Bell Curve.
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