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Right on the head. White liberals are always those born with the silver spoon, who have a sense of noblesse oblige, or however you want to say it.
Poor white folks know that it the black community that have the privlege. They get quota spots in universities, governement jobs and businesses. They get a handicap of several hundred points on their SATS. Their poor behavior is contantly defended as "black rage," or, absurdly, a legacy of events from hundreds of years ago. Etc.
Your so talented at lumping all Blacks together. You have it down to a science.
Clap, clap, clap, clap. You got it! BTW, there is no reason to be ashamed of white privilege. It is just something you can acknowledge and you just did. I understand you didn't intend to but you did.
Read "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh. (I would post a link, but it looks like the article has strict copyright laws about sharing it, so to save myself and C-D, I will not post it. You can find it on a Google search though. )
White privilege does not mean that being white privileges people in all situations, or that white people aren't going to face unfair situations, or that people of color can't be successful, or anything like that. It simply refers to contexts where white people will not experience the same negative things as people of color will due to race.
Here are some examples:
A white person can be pulled over unfairly by the police.
A white person who is pulled over unfairly by the police will likely be pulled over by an officer of the same race, and will most likely not wonder whether (s)he was targeted due to his/her race.
A person of color who is pulled over unfairly by the police will in many situations be pulled over by a white officer and will wonder whether (s)he was targeted due to his/her race.
A poor white person cannot afford to live in a wealthy neighborhood.
A poor person of color cannot afford to live in a wealthy neighborhood.
A white person with the means can choose to live in a wealthy neighborhood without fear of harassment or not being included due to his/her race.
A person of color with the means, if (s)he chooses to live in a wealthy neighborhood, will have to look out for and possibly contend with harassment or not being included due to his/her race.
Hopefully that clears it up.
And yet every metric shows that it is full of crap. Black people are pulled over 2% LESS then they are found to speed. Black people aren't harassed in wealthy white neighborhoods anywhere near white people in poor black neighborhoods. You are pushing fiction trying to pretend it is fact.
What is fact is that asians and whites are LESS likely to receive college admissions and monetary help compared to blacks or Hispanics BECAUSE OF RACISM.
Read "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh. (I would post a link, but it looks like the article has strict copyright laws about sharing it, so to save myself and C-D, I will not post it. You can find it on a Google search though. )
White privilege does not mean that being white privileges people in all situations, or that white people aren't going to face unfair situations, or that people of color can't be successful, or anything like that. It simply refers to contexts where white people will not experience the same negative things as people of color will due to race.
Here are some examples:
A white person can be pulled over unfairly by the police.
A white person who is pulled over unfairly by the police will likely be pulled over by an officer of the same race, and will most likely not wonder whether (s)he was targeted due to his/her race.
A person of color who is pulled over unfairly by the police will in many situations be pulled over by a white officer and will wonder whether (s)he was targeted due to his/her race.
A poor white person cannot afford to live in a wealthy neighborhood.
A poor person of color cannot afford to live in a wealthy neighborhood.
A white person with the means can choose to live in a wealthy neighborhood without fear of harassment or not being included due to his/her race.
A person of color with the means, if (s)he chooses to live in a wealthy neighborhood, will have to look out for and possibly contend with harassment or not being included due to his/her race.
Hopefully that clears it up.
Even the "person of color" thing can cut ACROSS "race lines". Why I say that is an Asian with DayGlo white skin many times WILL be accepted INTO the anglo white world despite being a "POC", especially if our Asian is anglo white in culture. OTOH: a darker skin anglo SOMETIMES will face prejudice from lighter skin people. Tho to be fair: a Black person from England WILL usually have far less prejudice from even most racist anglo white people here in the US. The British accent many times WILL cancel out having dark skin.
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