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rexrgisformidoni -> RE: one of my hopes for an Obama Presidency (10/19/2008 5:40:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Blaakmaan
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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf
Have you ever looked at some of your own comments and thought they may self perpetuate things?
"For years, I've argued that most of the problems many black Americans face today have little or nothing to do with racial discrimination. For the most part, the most devastating problems encountered by a large segment of the black community are self-inflicted." Walter Williams
"I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger. " Bill Cosby
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ORIGINAL: Blaakmaan
So, I will take my leave and allow white superiority to resume its rightful place upon the throne, undisturbed...
No, I haven't, because they don't. Whatever I say or don't say here has pretty much no effect on America's oppressor-oppressed dynamic.
I've had enough of this. You can't make someone see what he's determined not to see. And I won't bother to quote the 100's of people I could quote to counter Bill Cosby and Walter Williams. But, I will cite a couple: (can't help it--it's the Virgo in me!):
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. So I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools , and blank checks.
--Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women
For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend five different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.
--Tim Wise, "This is Your Nation on White Privilege"
http://www.opednews.com/articles/This-is-Your-Nation-on-Whi-by-Tim-Wise-080916-307.html
In other words, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that white America is the biggest collective recipient of racial preference in the history of the cosmos. It has skewed our laws, shaped our public policy and helped create the glaring inequalities with which we still live. White families, on average, have a net worth that is 11 times the net worth of black families, according to a recent study; and this gap remains substantial even when only comparing families of like size, composition, education and income status. A full-time black male worker in 2003 makes less in real dollar terms than similar white men were earning in 1967. Such realities are not merely indicative of the disadvantages faced by blacks, but indeed are evidence of the preferences afforded whites -- a demarcation of privilege that is the necessary flipside of discrimination. Indeed, the value of preferences to whites over the years is so enormous that the current baby-boomer generation of whites is currently in the process of inheriting between $7-10 trillion in assets from their parents and grandparents -- property handed down by those who were able to accumulate assets at a time when people of color by and large could not. To place this in the proper perspective, we should note that this amount of money is more than all the outstanding mortgage debt, all the credit card debt, all the savings account assets, all the money in IRAs and 401k retirement plans, all the annual profits for U.S. manufacturers, and our entire merchandise trade deficit combined. Yet few whites have ever thought of our position as resulting from racial preferences. Indeed, we pride ourselves on our hard work and ambition, as if somehow we invented the concepts.--Tim Wise, "Whites Swim in Racial Privilege"http://academic.udayton.edu/race/04needs/affirm20.htm
Why don't you cry about it some more? College professors who have an agenda, and most do, tilt things in their theories favor. I know personally african americans who would read the drivel you post and be disgusted. I am disgusted. But then again, you will say I am because of my "white privilege". Please. Affirmative action has screwed this entire nation, its made being a victim acceptable and people who have zero applicable job qualifactions get jobs ahead of others. Don't belive me, go to any dmv or local government office. Anyhow, I am not racist, I think there are bad apples in every bunch.
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