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ericson00

(2,707 posts)
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 08:42 AM Jul 2016

White privilege described; in a few points

Some people, mainly conservatives, like to bash the notion that white privilege exists. While not every problem that the African American community has is because they're not white, it is undeniable as a white that there are many things I don't have to face everyday that is the norm for black people. Examples are:

1. I don't have to worry about being stopped by police because I "fit a description."
2. If I work hard in school, I'm not accused of "acting like another race."
3. If I drive am expensive car, its not because I'm assumed or thought to be a rapper, celebrity, or a drug/gang kingpin.
4. I'm not mistaken for the help in a store or a parking lot
5. If I dress nicely, its not because I'm trying to be something I'm not, or saved up all my money for it
6. I can seek members of the attracted-to sex of other races without people thinking I'm trying to "marry up."

There are a dozen more examples I could give, but I post this because conservatives often point to the poverty in rural white communities as examples that somehow, white privilege doesn't exit.

Does this mean that whites should be subject to such things, as a means of eliminating the injustices blacks face? Absolutely not; never let a conservative convince others that that's the progressive "solution" to this problem. The solution is to lift African Americans out of poverty, eliminate draconian sentences for minor and/or non-violent drug offenses, produce more black academics in hard sciences and technical fields, but also, there is work to do in the AA community about single parents and absentee fathers, no doubt.

My two cents.

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