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.
Id like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.
If you are a white person in America, you were born privileged. Thats just a fact.
Its nothing to be ashamed of. Its not anybodys fault. Theres 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 doesnt give you a pass to be lazy and shiftless. It doesnt 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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The problem is that the most of the latinos coming here, are coming here illegally. They won’t assimilate, because, thanks to the socialist-democrats, especially the ones ruling the state of California, they don’t have to, and the socialist-democrats have deliberately made it that way.
The legal aliens and Americans of latino descent aren’t the problem.
The socialist-democrats need to keep them segregated, and for good reason.
Remember when obama said that he needed a civilian force that was just as powerful as the US military?
He knew that him and his ilk could never raise that kind of force from the indigenous population. There’s just not enough hardcore leftists around to make that happen, and corrupting the courts. congress, education, and business, would only get them so far.
So the socialist-democrats decided that if they can’t raise a revolutionary army with the natives, they would have to import them.
Be prepared.
And coming much, much sooner than any of you'd like to think. In fact, I am alarmed at the exponential pace we are moving in this direction.
I’ve asked myself that very question. Perhaps, those that
resist don’t mind making their lives easier by adopting
the technology largely developed by the ‘white culture’
and the dominant language (English) which provides
easier access to those benefits. On the other hand they
had their own culture for thousands of years and some of
them just refuse to ‘play the game’ which is the invention
of the white man.
My own opinion is that while the keys to success in the
American culture may have been developed by white men
it is not exclusive to white people and that fact is
more apparent on a daily basis. Why, for example, do many
black people do better than I do? I think it is because
I have been less willing to ‘play the success game’ and
I am more lazy than they are, as well. If we accept
the pity party philosophy of the left then there would
only be successful white people and no successful blacks.
You must have been a hoot as a chaplain.
That “Old Spice” routine was hilarious.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a Caucasian postal employee.
We need to end civil service and return to the spoils system.
They are pretty much a disappeared breed.
Our local branch P.O. is starting to look more like the Mos Eisley Cantina from the Star Wars movie bar scene and less like a business location in America.
Here in my part of South Carolina which is nearly half and half black and white you can go into any government office and see that the vast majority of jobs are filled by blacks yet some of them, not all, still claim that whites are given preference in hiring. NOTHING could be further from reality. There is vastly more black racism here than white racism.
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