If institutional racism is the playing field that you believe you are on, then play on that field. Don’t whine about it.
We can all conjure up something to be angry about. But it seems to me, that blacks are mad that their culture and traditions cannot compete economically within the United States. Welfare did not help. Affirmative action did not help. Children out of wedlock did not help. Murder in inner cities did not help. Rap culture did not help. Black Liberation Theology did not help. Obama did not help.
The only thing that will help is turn to God for guidance, work hard at whatever job you are capable of, get married, stay married, raise your kids to be good citizens with a work ethic reflected by your own actions, value education, be content with what you have and hope for a better future for your kids.
On White Privilege:
The best revenge for minorities against White Privilege is to compete and succeed. If you believe that the “playing field” is not level then you have two choices, compete anyway and work even harder to succeed, or go find another playing field.
The other playing field would be to succeed within your own minority community. Black owned businesses in Black neighborhoods, buying from Black distributors and producers.
Minorities will never find a solution in expecting Whites to tip the playing field in their direction. The two groups have a completely different view of the field of competition. I think that Whites go about their lives competing on the field of life and don’t even see the Blacks on the sidelines. Blacks stand on the sidelines and have no idea how to get on the field. For some reason they think they need to ask permission of the Whites to play?
Just step on the field and compete! Or don’t. It’s up to you. But don’t blame it on me if you can’t.
Booker T Washington:
Booker T. Washington (1865–1915) warned of such people within the black community in his 1911 book My Larger Education. He described them as “problem profiteers”:
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” (p. 118)
There is one thing that stuck out in what you wrote that I do not generally think about in the context of racism/white privilege/et.al., If you believe that the “playing field” is not level then you have two choices, compete anyway and work even harder to succeed, or go find another playing field.
Personally, as a white man, I have never seen the playing field as level. It's not level in school, business, pursuit of women, friends and life in general. There is always someone more intelligent, better looking, has better social skills, etc. I realize each of these things are double-edge swords. For instance, I know my intelligence takes away from my social skills. I often find it difficult to relate to people and I am misunderstood. I know this and I work on it. I do not play the victim. Likewise I do not covet other's strengths (at least I try not to.)
How selfish of me to want to improve. Why is it that some people do not seek self-improvement but instead choose to be a victim? This is particularly true of black culture which too many whites want to adopt.
I find it anti-American. I was raised to believe Americans are a "can-do" people. Then again, when I was a child the term "American race" was used. There was a time when we were a distinct people to be differentiated from other nations because we had proven our superiority, whether it was charity to the world, Christian love, economic prowless, military might, scientific achievements or the freedom and liberty in which we lived.