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I find it laughable how people keep saying white men are privileged when there is NOT ONE, yes, NOT ONE aspect of political correctness that considers men as a a gender and whites as a race.
The goal of political correctness is to explain to the dominant gender (male) and dominant race (white) in our country that minorities and women are people too.
Do you understand that?
have you watched basketball latley? whites arnt dominating lol and im not making that black man who is type of paycheck.. as for minorities i live in a majority black area.. this may be due to white and black offspring looking black but it doesnt change the fact there are a lot less whites... http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/21/white.persecution/index.html is a report cnn did about whites marching because they are losing there rights.. personaly if there is a Black Entertainment Television i want a White Entertainment Television... if there is a negro college fund i want a crackro college fund.. there is a black history month but no white history month.. but i guess political correctness is biased.. we still have to feel sorry for blacks because they were slaves while whites were slaves before that to blacks in egypt..
Ummmm white history month is 11 months long.
And I`m not sure you`d want the 300 years of slavery/murder/rape/maiming/jim crow/theft/bigotry that preceded and made neccessary,things like the NAACP or the United Negro College Fund.
I could be wrong about you tho....
I took a look at the CNN article linked above, and one thing that I found interesting was that this was tied in with the country's economic dilemmas:
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The notion that many white Americans feel anxious about their race is not new. Today, however, economic anxieties are feeding those racial fears, says Tim Wise, author of "White Like Me."
Wise says the recession hit blue-collar, white Americans hard, financially and psychologically.
Many white Americans have lived under the assumption that if they worked hard, they would be rewarded. Now more white Americans are sharing unemployment lines with "those people" -- black and brown, Wise says.
"For the first time since the Great Depression, white Americans have been confronted with a level of economic insecurity that we're not used to," he says. "It's not so new for black and brown folks, but for white folks, this is something we haven't seen since the Depression."
This might confirm the OP's point about privilege, although it also seems to be a generational issue as well:
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"The very definition of being an American is going through a profound change," Wise says. "We can no longer take it for granted that we (whites) are the dictionary definition of an American."
This racial unease is more pronounced among older white Americans, who grew up in an era where America's icons were virtually all white, Wise says.
"The idea that we're losing our country is something that's not going to have a lot of resonance for someone under 30," Wise says. "These are white folks who don't remember the country that their parents are talking about."
With white no longer the norm, more white Americans are hitting the books to ask a question that few felt a need to ask before: What does it mean to be white?
"Whiteness Studies" began popping up in a few isolated academic institutions in the 1990s. Now such programs can be found in places such as the University of Wisconsin and the University of Utah. These courses examine what whiteness has meant during different periods of American history.
For many decades, white people saw themselves as individuals, not as members of a race, says Matt Wray, a sociologist at Temple University in Pennsylvania, who writes books about white studies.
"We are often offended if someone calls attention to our race as shaping how we view the world," says Wray, author of "Not Quite White." "We don't like to be pigeon-holed that way. Non-white Americans are seldom afforded this luxury of seeing themselves as individuals, disconnected from any race."
This is actually an interesting point and question: What does it mean to be white? Is the sociologist correct in saying that white people saw themselves as individuals and not as members of a race? I think some of it might have to do with the fact that, geographically, America is large enough that a lot of whites have been able to insulate themselves into areas where all they ever see are other white people (except for when they watch TV or movies) - or travel into the city (but those might be rare occasions).
A lot of whites also might identify by their ethnic heritage, not so much by their "whiteness." That seemed to be more common in the northern states among northern whites, particularly in the cities with large numbers of European immigrants. In the south, where there weren't as many European immigrants as in the north, ethnicity was more static which made it mainly into "white" and "black." Northern whites might see themselves quite differently from southern whites. Urban whites might also have similar cultural differences when compared with rural whites. Likewise with class differences among whites.
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