Yep when you’re living in the worst poverty in a country that views you as inferior it’s so easy to change your situation. When you live in a country where you can’t afford to go to college we have to blame it on laziness or stupidity
Right as a mllionaire black football player was just taser over how he park his expense car at 2AM on an empty lot of a drug store. When such events happen to white millionaires get back to me. Footnote I am your average middle class white and the last three times I was stop by the police while driving and they had valid reasons to write me ticket they did not do so and let me go on my way without a tickets and was nice to me beside. Sure there is no white privilege an a black driver would had gotten the same results.
Imagine I have a playful and bright, little Black girl infront of me and I step up to her and say; "Hey, little girl. There's a bunch of hurdles in your way. Hurdles that have always been there, hurdles that are put up to keep Black girls like you out. Hurdles of racism that will put you down, hurdles of sexism that will you get harrassed and raped and lots of, lots of mean, White boys that want to tear you apart and prevent you from success! Life is hell for girls. Especially if they are Black because then, even White girls are putting up obstacles of hate. Sorry you are out luck. Oh, by the way - slavery is lurking around the corner, so you better watch your back." Wait, let's do one more: Black girl: "Help, there's a monster under my bed!" Prejudice expert: "Yes there is, honey - It's a White man and he is there to terrorise you because you are dark-skinned and female." How do you think that girl would react? If you were that girl, how would you react? This is exactly what is happening in society right now and I would really hope that you will understand why this is a bad way of "fighting prejudice". Ugh. White boy: "I want to become an engineer when I grow up!" Teacher: "Oh, isn't that a bit selfish, you evil, little bastardised son of a demon? Girls can be engineers too, you privileged bag of entitlement. It is because of people like you kids in Africa die. You are disgusting!"
It’s like jews who came here....Asians are viewed as intelligent so they are treated differently. Hearing this nonsense from a white boy would have her laughing so hard You are the epitome of the rightwing extremist.
A very dear friend of ours who is extremely wealthy and has a home in the hamptons and drives a bmw gets stopped very often and has to put his hands over the hood. He calmly tells them his ID is in his pocket. He said it usually happens when he has a couple of black guys with him but not when he’s with his wife and kids
But from a White woman in a position of power (workshop-leader and published author) married to a man with a high status job, it is OK? What makes me a "right wing-extremist"?
So are you saying that Jews are not white? And are you saying that Asians also have white privilege? I mean, statistically they seem to outdo whites, so wouldn't it be more proper to say that whites have Asian privilege?
OMG .. I'm embarrassed for you, Renee. Check out the latest figures .. plenty available. Asian and Indian Americans are in the lead.
We can certainly blame it on the laziness of your parents. All children (in reasonable health) have the potential to secure full scholarships via academics alone. If the parents are sufficiently motivated.
The same happens in my country, in reverse. It's the whites who are automatically 'suspect' at 2am in an empty drugstore parking lot. Asians, Indians, Africans etc citizens are not generally considered potential criminals - unless they're really overtly thuggish in appearance and manner, and hang around park lots at 2am. So, why do you think that is? Profiling .. the essential tool of any police force responsible for the safety of vast numbers of human beings living in close quarters. It has NOTHING to do with race. It just happens that in my country, the majority of crime is committed by white people, and almost all 'petty' crime is.
Crap. The Indo-Chinese refugees who arrived in the 70's were regarded as stupid, rustic peasants. Yet they absolutely slammed it in terms of success. They went to work to better themselves before their back foot was off the gang plank. The Chinese have been considered as not much better than stupid serfs, for much of their tenure in the western world. Until last century, they were so disregarded (as human beings) that they were limited to crappy jobs like washing clothes, and disposing of waste (Mister Wu!). They let NONE of that stop them, and now they're beating your arses.
And what's to stop any child from reaching 'the very top'? Parents, that's what. You try to convince me that 99% of parents don't tell themselves that near enough is good enough. Go ahead.
Do you speak for everyone here? . . I am not retreating it’s just going over your little head. Yes I noticed Forbes top 500 richest people are all people of color LOL
Why don't you just graciously admit you were wrong about the stats? Will save you time and further embarrassment.
You are using isolated events to come to an invalid universal position. You have no way of knowing what those officers would have done and there have been many rich black individuals that were given lowered or no sentences for pretty serious crimes and poor whites that have been given sentences far greater than the crime they committed. This wouldn’t exist if white privilege existed. No one is saying racism doesn’t exist but to blanket it all as white privilege is just blatant ignorance and racism in itself, especially looking at the the sucesses people all ethnicities enjoy, especially individuals of Asian descent. Maybe you people just don’t know what the word privilege means, try looking it up sometime. If you want to argue blacks face a separate stigma that other ethnicities do not, I would probably agree - then I would direct you to the assault, murder and theft statistics they have worked so diligently to achieve.
I believe some (the smarter ones) are saying this, without realising that's what they're saying (they're not that smart .. they're Progressives, after all). In which case, they should take a moment to study cause and effect.
The "Forbes Top 500" have done more for minorities than a trillion workshops could ever do. Just sayin'. Why even bring up the "Forbes 500"? It has nothing to do with anything. When I tried to put things into perspective for you by creating a ridiculous notion of "Black Privilege" based on the fact that they have dominated sprint for half a century, your sharp mind saw the fallacy and you protested: Now, your quote above works just as well to rebutt your "Forbes-500-argument"; I can't believe you're thinking Forbes 500 are rich because they're White and placed on the list because they are White. Couldn't be because they're great workers but of course you're not a bigot. My intention and hope was that you, by seeing the stupidity in my created scenario of "Black Privilege" also would be able to see the stupidity in the whole notion of "White Privilege".
