Is that so? Someone ought to tell Benjamin Jealous - head of the NAACP - that he has significant unearned privileges.
Posted on 12/11/2014 10:31:29 AM PST by dennisw
In a Dec. 5 op-ed, the president of California State University (CSU) claimed if you are “light skinned” you have “significant unearned privilege” and routinely think less of those who are different than yourself.
In her piece, “Privilege at The Beach,”—referencing the Long Beach area where the school resides—Jane Close Conoley, a white woman herself, asserts that “light skin color and high income levels may attract significant unearned privilege.” Those who qualify for such privilege, often unknowingly exert distrust and “lower expectations of behavior” on those of another skin color.
“Those who are less affluent with darker skin or from other cultures can be targets of micro to macro aggressions, distrust, and low expectations for behavior.” “This privilege can manifest itself in numerous ways that afford automatic trust, deference, and security,” writes Conoley, in the piece first noticed by the Pundit Press. “Those who are less affluent with darker skin or from other cultures can be targets of micro to macro aggressions, distrust, and low expectations for behavior.”
Conoley claims that if a non-white person walks into a department store they may be followed by employees and their presence is often times acknowledged with “suspicion and fear.”
“Those with privilege are often unaware of this discrepancy, as people treat them with respect—as all individuals should be treated,” Conoley writes. “When they enter department stores they are greeted with smiles and offers of help. When they ask questions or request additional service, they are answered cordially. On approach, they are seen as benign.”
“Those without such privilege are thrown, merely by circumstances mainly out of their control, into the opposite context. They may be followed when entering a high-end department store or have their purchasing attempts viewed with suspicion. Others may view their presence or approach with suspicion and fear.”
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OK, Mr. Conoley, define the parameters of that privilege.
Take your time, I have all day.
So when is the trough feeder (at a taxpayer supported university) going to resign her job and let a black man or a Samoan or an American Indian have it?
She’s pale, stale and a whale
What about homosexual mulatto muslims?
“A few years ago,he would have been shining our shoes.”Bill Clinton.
Go talk to HIM,Jane.
I think University presidents have unearned privilege, as evidenced by this mindless screed here. She should pony up and grovel, to all the rest of us.
define- that’s easy- lite skinned:
1.White
2. White latino
3. Asian
2. uncle Tom’s associated with the republicans
Is that so? Someone ought to tell Benjamin Jealous - head of the NAACP - that he has significant unearned privileges.
Aleutian Islanders really have it tough. I can’t think of any who are university presidents...unless there is a University of Whale Harpooning!
a certifiable mental case (and on the public payroll, to boot!)
Jerry Brown, can’t you do anything about the Nazification of the UC and CSU campuses... or this kind of idiocy on your state payroll.????
what kind of legacy do you want?
I would say the “privilege” has actually been earned over the centuries. Caucasians as a group have a long record of hard work and high achievement. So do other ethnic groups.
“Those who qualify for such privilege, often unknowingly exert.....“lower expectations of behavior” on those of another skin color.”
This pretty much sums up the way most liberals think about minorities.
But if you’re brown-skinned you got no income tax payment privileges, EBT privileges, welfare privileges, sec8 housing privileges, kill whitey privileges, repatriation privileges, even niqqa calling privileges, etc...whitey don’t have none of dat’
So he should flunk all his white students.
The air in CA must be the same polluted smog that politicians breathe in Versailles on the Potomac. Not a sane or honest politician in either state.
Just another cast-iron Jacka$$.
My ‘white privilege’ consists of nothing more than ‘no one to blame but myself’.
Woe is me. Born into a family of dirt poor farmers and now I’m saddled with white privilege. I feel so guilty.
I believe that covers everything.
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