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How to use your white privilege (Original Post) MrScorpio Jun 2013 OP
Thank you. Cerridwen Jun 2013 #1
Gads. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #2
I have done that my entire life Skittles Jun 2013 #3
Thanks Mr Scorpio. NOLALady Jun 2013 #4
I love this. I've had wins and losses in using my white privilege to enlighten other whites freshwest Jun 2013 #5
What I Did at the Grocery Store One Time School Teacher Jun 2013 #6
spot on Pharaoh Jun 2013 #7
It's for damn sure that they don't listen to us. Baitball Blogger Jun 2013 #8
Just read my sigline. :-| K&R - n/t DeSwiss Jun 2013 #9
Excellent AsahinaKimi Jun 2013 #10
Very enlightening and heartwarming video. Thank you so much. AverageJoe90 Jun 2013 #11
Thank you! BillyRibs Jun 2013 #12
BillyRibs you hate the term "white privilege" as many whites do, so they bonniebgood Jun 2013 #14
I hate the term, too SouthernLiberal Jun 2013 #16
Oh I don't Deny it. BillyRibs Jun 2013 #17
Kick Scuba Jun 2013 #13
KnR sarchasm Jun 2013 #15
What a gracious, courageous, and perceptive woman. indepat Jun 2013 #18

NOLALady

(4,003 posts)
4. Thanks Mr Scorpio.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 11:45 PM
Jun 2013

My husband is a white skinned, green eyed, Black Man.

We are well aware that the world he walks in is different from mine. But, we use his "white privilege" to our advantage whenever necessary.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
5. I love this. I've had wins and losses in using my white privilege to enlighten other whites
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 12:15 AM
Jun 2013

I'm tired of this crap, but hardly ever see it in the neighborhood where I live now. People won't put up with it. And it is the black women who get the brunt of it, every single time.

 

School Teacher

(71 posts)
6. What I Did at the Grocery Store One Time
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 12:24 AM
Jun 2013

I am a white woman. I was in a grocery store one time and tired. I had filled my basket and was waiting in the check out line. Then I heard a black woman behind me say in an annoyed and loud tone: "I am not stealing in this store, I came in to shop here. Why are you following me around?!!" Then I said in a loud voice, "I can't shop here if black people are treated like this in here." Then I turned to those in line behind me and said loudly: "And I hope everyone here will leave their groceries behind and leave the store like me!" And I left without my week's groceries on a Friday night, but I was happy to have done the right thing!

Baitball Blogger

(46,703 posts)
8. It's for damn sure that they don't listen to us.
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 12:40 AM
Jun 2013

Which is why it's so difficult to expose good ole boy cultures. We don't live normal lives under these environments, because we're not meant to. It doesn't matter how much dirt we got on them. Until we have Kathleen's stand up for us, to say that they see the same things we are seeing, no one will listen.

 

BillyRibs

(787 posts)
12. Thank you!
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 03:56 AM
Jun 2013

As a city Dweller I have found Myself in in a position to help folks in the same Manner. It's nice to know I may have made a difference. I just never thought of it as using (gods I hate this term.)"White Privilege"

bonniebgood

(940 posts)
14. BillyRibs you hate the term "white privilege" as many whites do, so they
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 09:22 AM
Jun 2013

simply deny it exist. I know first hand because I bring up the subject ( to white friends and family)
and they vociferously adamantly deflect and deny it. It was as if I had accused them of using the "N" word.
Yes whites hate the words "white privilege" profoundly.

 

BillyRibs

(787 posts)
17. Oh I don't Deny it.
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 01:09 PM
Jun 2013

exist! I never deny it exists. I abhor it's existence. Worse yet, in my life I have even met some who embrace it. I use it like the bitch it is for the best possible use I can. However let us not for get "All Power corrupts."

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