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In reply to the discussion: I'm surprised how many DU'ers think aknowledging white male privilege is somehow bigoted [View all]billh58
(6,635 posts)the descendants of the 4 million slaves on plantations at the founding of this country. Those white males who did not own land, also were not slaves who were bred like cattle to "improve the stock."
The "didn't have the vote because they were not land owners?" Big fucking deal, they likely had a slave or two, along with their cattle and pigs. Tell me again when women were allowed to vote in this country? Tell me again when African Americans were allowed to vote in this country? Tell me again how many white privileged males were lynched in this country. Tell me again how many white privileged males have become pregnant and been forced to raise a child on their own? When white privileged males make more money than a woman OR a non-white male doing the very same job, they must suffer horribly.
And after the Civil War, the descendents of these poor underprivileged white males went on to form the Ku Klux Klan, and to implement a form of American apartheid that lasted for almost another hundred years. You can still find remnants of these racist asshats in pockets of this country.
Now tell me again how these underprivileged white males have suffered, from the founding of this country until the present?