Let me list the forms of my white priviledge.
Conceived out of wedlock.
Sock drawer for a crib.
Sears toughskins pants with iron on patches to cover up holes.
Commodities program (aka welfare food handouts of dehydrated milk, govt cheese, dry beans etc.)
Parents shared grill cheese sandwhich for dinner 5x week and ate other meals at enlisted club where mom cocktail served to make ends meet so they could pay for a house.
Dad took his vacation days every year from air force and worked at the state fair to make extra money.
Mom sewed a lot of our clothes by hand.
Pawn shops were for buying bargains.
Coupons saved the day.
Spaghetti 2x week when grilled cheese sandwiches were not on dinner menu.
Ground beef gravy and egg noodles = a feast.
White priviledge was awesome!
Awesome, kudos to your mom and dad! My situation was not quite that bad but at times we didn’t have one lousy dollar in our 5 person family. But, living in the country in those lean years we were always self supporting TOTALLY on food.
Also, NEVER ONCE!........did we blame others or feel sorry for ourselves or beg or borrow or get one thin dime in ANY FORM from the fn government!
We did go to church on Sunday morning AND Sunday evening and most Wednesday nights though and many times helped our neighbors with food and particularly water as they were worse off than we were.
There’s a lot of privileged whites in Appalachia in 2015 that would love the government iphones and bigscreens the downtrodden blacks take for granted. They might even appreciate power in their homes to run them. Or the $500 Air Jordans. But they would settle for any pair of shoes really.
They sure are privileged.