Stopped reading there. I did not make it to where I am today because of my skin color. I made it here because I had parents who gave a damn about where I was and what I was doing when I was young. I made it here because I applied myself in school. I made it here because I took initiative and blew off the losers who told me I was "selling out" (for whatever reason).
The whole "white privilege" idea is nothing but a Leftist racist cop-out for other minorities not giving a damn about their own future.
Every time I hear that ours is a racist culture that keeps minorities down, I always demand an explanation for the success of the Asian community. And every time I get nothing but bullcrap socio-babble from the Left.
I'm with you, PC.
I take it the left hasn't yet taught you how to be apologetic for being white...;-)
You are correct, sir!
In the late 1970's my parent's church sponsored some Vietnamese refugee families. One in particular, we got to know fairly well. They came here illiterate and speaking no English with their five children. My father got the husband a job as basically a helper at a friend's factory. My mother hired the wife to clean our house and also got her jobs cleaning the homes of some of my parent's other friends. My family and others in our church gave them money throughout the first year they were here, rented a small apartment for them and gave them a beat-up old car. After a year they no longer needed any financial help and they never received any government money aside from Medicaid in the very beginning.
It is now nearly thirty years later. The Vietnamese couple now live in a 3500 SF home in a very nice neighborhood and they buy new vehicles couple of years. All of their children are college graduates. The husband is a superintendent at the same factory he started at when he first got here and the wife now owns three nail salons.
That's what I think of whenever people try to start on this race and class envy crap. If you cannot succeed in the United States it is either because you have an IQ in the very low single digits or you just don't care. We are a capitalistic society, we WANT people to succeed, it is in EVERYONE'S best interests to have as many people succeed as possible.
I really don't see how the left fails to realize this. I mean think about it, they managed to take a serial sex offender out of a backass trailer park and put him in the Oval Office, that alone should prove how easy it is to be successful in America.
Bumper sticker on a nice (and I mean nice)truck:
I Didn't wish for this
I WORKED for this.
I'm with you, too...
I am of German/Scot extraction, and I did not have what you had. I was raised by a single dad who worked so I spent loooooots of time with idle hands. My mother was a radical feminist; she left when I was eight to go do whatever she wanted. Not all whites have privilege. Not all blacks and browns lack privilege.
For all peoples, the key to doing well is good manners, politeness, working well with others, applying ones self to education and work, thrift, industry, taking care not to waste resources and time, and investing in the next generation by being faithful and staying married, and seeing to the good care of your young, and ensuring their proper introduction into polite society.
A metaphor for families breaking up is a failed business, where all the talent and producers is/are dispersed and unable to focus their energies as a team production of things that bring profits. When a mother leaves, or a father, they take with them all the future beneficence, work, love, teaching, that they can bestow on the current family, and allocate it elsewhere for the benefit of others who have no higher claim on it than the biological children, and who aren't going to be there when there is a real crisis that involves the original family members. It is all wasted.
The strength of the state is in the condition of business, and of families. The weakness of families translates to the weakness of the State. Feminism has served to weaken the state by weakening the family. Feminists are public enemies.
Thank you for saying what needed to be said.
And, FWIW, I've heard the same thing from more than a few minority (female, black) co-workers as well. They get peeved when someone insinuates that something other than hard work allowed them to achieve what they've achieved.
Amen to that.