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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 10:17 PM Jan 2014

On the "White Male Privilege" question...one brief thought

Yes, there is a need to talk about "white male privilege".

But in two different senses

1)To call it out where it does exist and where it is invoked for unfair advantage;

2)To help white working men realize that, in economic terms, White Male Privilege really DOESN'T exist for them and that they have no interest in believing that it protects them enough to avoid accepting the fact that their true interest lies in seeing ALL working people regardless of race, as their allies in the struggle for economic and social change.

Somehow, some way, the language must be found to get through to the majority of white working men that their future lies with the Rainbow.

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