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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Dark skinned Black Women hate light skinned Black Women, that’s a fact. She should write an Article about that.
Nazi Pelosi doesn't seem bothered by her "privilege"...
Divide and conquer. It’s all that the socialist-democrats have.
Blacks represent about 12% of the population. Out of that 12% or so, 90% are servants, suckers, and useful idiots on the socialist-democrat plantation. Most of those are learning the hard way that illegal aliens are now the preferred “minority” of the socialist party. The latinos/hispanics are better conditioned to be good little socialist followers, and are easier and cheaper to control.
So blacks fall out of favor, outside of being useful to start riots and burn down cities, but even that ploy is getting old.
“the level of hiring discrimination against African-Americans had not changed in 25 years.” And yet the unemployment rate for blacks is lower than it has ever been!
“black children — particularly boys — are nearly four times more likely to be suspended from school than white children.” And how many more times are black adults likely to be involved with violent crimes? Ever hear of culture?
“When black kids got hooked on crack cocaine in the 1980s, America said, “Toss those thugs in jail.” When there weren’t enough jails to hold all of them, we poured money into building more.” And you evidence that this actually happened is...?
“For example, as an African-American woman, I can rarely find makeup that matches my exact skin tone.” And I don’t know anything about economics either.
You really got a hair across don’t you?
This is too clear to even be debatable!
White males are grossly under represented in government offices, I’ve noticed the same thing. My Post Office had one, he retired, now they have none.
I know for a fact that this gave me an advantage over many, many people who were not.
If a disproportionate number of non-white people are raised in single-parent homes, then the author of this slop ought to start looking closely at fixing that problem before suggesting that the term "white privilege" even means anything.
In fact, the problem is `white culture rejection’ and it
remains a phenomenon which still afflicts far too many
African Americans.
Now THAT is the correct response!
Another good response to crap like this is:
Go to HELL!
EXACTLY!
Great post - thanks.
When Gollum sought The Ring, he didn’t dream of equality, he dreamt of making the hobbits crawl.
These rodents may call it “White Privilege”, I just called him “Dad”
“White privilege” means “pretext for putting Whites at the back of every line”.
And that's just a flat lie.
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