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White privilege is a concept used by Ayres and Dohrn in the 60s. It’s brought back around again and is peddled everywhere. It is about reparations and giving up power of yourself and part of a communist revolution.

“During her time underground (which spanned most of the 1970s), Dohrn periodically issued additional “war communiqués” to the public at large. These communiqués commonly called for white Americans to shed their “white skin privilege” and launch a violent race war on behalf of Third World People.”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190

Do not be fooled. This is not new.

“In footnote 13 of his article, Professor Lemisch quotes a 1973 book by Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS, on the attitude of the Weather Underground about white people and even about white babies:

“The Weatheranalysis held that whites were virtually useless in the world-wide confrontation going on, and except for a few brave streetfighters like the Weathermen, they were all corrupted, bought-off tyrants. Logically, then, the death of a white baby is a positive revolutionary action, and indeed the Weathermen actually held abstract debates at the [1969 Flint] “war council” about whether killing white babies is ‘correct’, a Weatherman at one point shouting out to the audience, ‘All white babies are pigs.’ From there it was only a step to Dohrn’s ecstatic speech about the Charles Manson gang . . . “
[Sale, Kirkpatrick. SDS. Cited by Jesse Lemisch]

In his article, Lemisch describes the Weathermen’s ideological perspective about white people:

“It is worth recalling that abuse of explosives was only one of many Weather errors. The chamber of horrors would have to include Dohrn’s remark at the 1969 Flint Michigan SDS “War Council” concerning the murders committed by the Charles Manson gang in Los Angeles: “Dig it: first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach. Wild!?”11 This bring us to Weather’s “white skin privilege” line.

WHILE RECOGNIZING THE ROLE OF RACISM in America, the white skin privilege analysis placed Weather in opposition to whites in general and to the white working class in particular, towards whom Weather was dismissive and contemptuous. It saw whites as complicit and corrupted beneficiaries of racism and imperialism who had sold out and were therefore to be opposed, perhaps killed, rather than addressed, educated, and recruited, with a program relevant to their situation. “Fight the People,” said Ayers and early Weather.12 Ayers recalls his thoughts concerning white skin privilege at the time of the climactic 1969 SDS convention (139). The Revolutionary Youth Movement (i.e., Weather), he says, saw racism as
providing privileges and material benefits . . . to white people, mystifying many and winning their allegiance . . . white skin privilege was . . . a real and effective bribe against consciousness and struggle . . . white people are mostly brainwashed. We lucky few will wake them up . . .” “

http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2006/07/ward-churchill-and-weathermen-bombers.html