[tricky_k_1972]

Well I guess this means that anyone who dissagrees with the Left is a Racist, there's news for ya. by the way you can write her back using the URL and going to the bottom of the article. Sorry I'm not familliar with HTML yet, so you'll just have to cut and paste.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/756345.asp?0dm=O1FPO

[AlGone2001]

Try this:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/756345.asp?0dm=O1FPO

[Husker24]

Yea, I guess it must have been my white privilege that got me that 25K a year job in that hot geasy factory.

[concerned about politics]

I too feel there's world racism, but I think the most discriminated people in the world are the straight white males.
When applying for a job or college admission, they have to go to the end of the line. PC Quotas get in first.
All other races and genders are the privaliged. They don't even have to work for the position. It's handed to them.

[rintense]

Well, that's kinda along the lines of if you're a Republican, you're automatically a wealthy, racist white guy.

[fporretto]

You forgot the BARF ALERT!

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[DainBramage]

They are those who insist that all they have is due to hard work, while all that other, less fortunate members of society lack is a result of their own ineptitude.

This line of thought makes the assumption that all whites are successful and are looking down on minorities. More BS whining.

Finish school, keep your record clean, work hard and you have as good a chance at success as anyone

... except Shaqeal O'neal.

[GeorgeHL]

Just another attack on the white race by the leftist liberals who hate their own forebearers. And whats with this privilege business? My great Grand father fought in the Civil war to preserve this Union,my father fought in WW1 and my brother was killed in Nam is this privilege or is this hard won freedoms? Why is it only the White Europeans are accused of rascism? I've worked with blacks and over heard their rascism but to say this makes me a racist?? I am white ,European descent, and proud to look in the mirror and see a white face looking back. If the liberals love the blacks so much how come Hillary doesn't marry one or any of the Kennedys??

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The problem the this argument is that it's not the case that to be white is to be privileged. There's a legacy of discrimination against Catholics, Germans, Jews, and others -- not to mention any number of white English, who were sent to America as debtors and prisoners.

The problem is that most people of privilege have been white males, but not all whites have been privileged. White may have been a necessary condition for privilege in American history; but it was not, in and of itself, sufficient.

Even if it makes any different, Ms. Nelson and others like her, can't see the difference between a Boston Brahmin and poor, white farmer, whose ancestors were debtors, brought to Georgia by Oglethorpe.

Or, as a friend of the family once said, "My father couldn't get a job, because he was Italian. Now my son can't get a job, because he's white."

[Arkinsaw]

The article is partially right. There are racists among us. Some of them have even tried to hijack the US Civil Rights Commission from the rule of law.

[Verginius Rufus]

White privilege disfranchises people of color around the world? If non-whites are disfranchised in other countries that is the fault of white Americans? No doubt they should all be allowed to vote in US elections. Gore lost in 2000 because only those who had actually come to America were able to vote.

Bill Bradley pushed the theme of "white skin privilege" in the 2000 primaries, but it didn't win him a single state--and that was with 'Rat voters. Obviously talking about white privilege by itself isn't enough...it needs to be combined with a practical plan for reparations. The 2004 Democratic platform should include one.

[Peter Libra]

Lucky indeed that I accessed the red lettering. Sweet Jill, has her likeness therein. She is African-American; though I hesitate to use this phrase. Whoa, steady, I said to myself when I first perused the item. I checked and could'nt deliver a homily on elite white women, who are stuck on the same theme.

I like to question elite white women (liberals),on where their posteriors fit in the great scheme of things. They are very often in positions ,that reflect the "racist" society that they criticise. Oh well, one can merely ask- pathetically, of Super Jill, this question. "Black people don't kill white people- (whine in voice) do they?

I saw the old dignified man, a talking head(white) on MSNBC, after the day of the sentencing of Cherry. I thought, yes, if he (Cherry) did it, serves him right. I do have grand daughters too. Then I thought, you old hypocrite(talking head)- does he care about wanton crime that singles out the other racial group? He does not. It is more than his job is worth.

[judgeandjury]

Since supposedly only us white folk are racist, I guess that means that it would be perfectly safe for me to take a walk through an inner city black neighborhood late at night.

[Paul Atreides]

They are those who insist that all they have is due to hard work, while all that other, less fortunate members of society lack is a result of their own ineptitude.

I guess that Madame C.J. Walker, a black millionairess in the latter 1800s got where she was through government handouts. http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/walker.html

I have news for this cluck, not all white people are rich. Not all white people are guaranteed a job, a college education, and success by virtue of being white. White people have to work hard just like everyone else.

[Jorge]

The author is right.
Racism still remains, especially among liberals with their condescending message that *poor sad little blacks can't make it without the great white man to give him a hand*

This kind of black victim-mentality which portrays whites as the master of all men's fates, just reinforces the inferior, helpless and irresponsible attitude that keeps blacks down.
Liberal racism is absolutely sickening.

[Paul Atreides]

Today’s racists are those who willfully ignore the existence of both discrimination against African Americans and their own white privilege.

Hmmmmmm....wasn't it the Egyptians who enslaved the Jews?

[Jorge]

Today’s racists are those who willfully ignore the existence of both discrimination against African Americans and their own white privilege.

The truth is black homes with both a mother and father have an income that is nearly equal to that of white households.
The lack of two parent homes is holding blacks down more than anything any "racists" could possibly do to them.

But then we wouldn't expect the above liberal racist author who wants to blame all blacks problems on others to understand the impact of personal responsibility on life.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Justice?" Prosecutors found a bunch of estranged relatives to testify against an elderly man and say he committed a crime decades ago!

Any investigator can tell you that ex-wives make great sources - but also that they aren't trustworthy unless it is possible to really verify what they said.

Guilty or wrongly convicted, Bobby Cherry was the victim of a racially-inspired lynching.

[Asclepius]

They are those who insist that all they have is due to hard work, while all that other, less fortunate members of society lack is a result of their own ineptitude.

I had no idea I was a racist.

[an amused spectator]

Jill Nelson is a liberal black "journalist" who believes that Je$$e Jack$on and Billy Clinton can do no wrong. She was one of the Clintonite foot soldiers during the impeachment wars.

[Age of Reason]

What's a racist anyway . . . anyone know?