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Why is being crapped on but not as much as others considered being privileged? Just more idiotic race baiting by those who dont want to deal with the real issues.
You want opportunity for minorities? Stop the racist war on drugs that rips the heart out of families and stops so many of our people from a chance to earn a decent living.
Also, is Stewart doing anything for the black community? Maybe if he got involved with the encumbered black community on a real level, it will help temper some of his white guilt.
Are you sure he isn't involved in helping in the black community? Stewart isn't one for advertising his private life, and seeing he isn't a politician, he doesn't have to.
Heck, does OReilly do anything for the black community or does he just like to accuse anyone who is black that they look like a criminal.
Stewart doesn't need to be "helping the black community" to recognize something. What people popularly call "white privilege" has long been known as "black disadvantage". Everyone understands that and it's not even up for debate but it doesn't sound good so it's been rebranded.
It's not going to change anything, but it gives people something "new" to fight about and obsess over.
Everyone is privileged by what their parents and grandparents did to build our country and our families. You don't think Michael Jordan's kids are privileged? Of course they are and so are Bill Gates kids....based on their what their families built which was built on what their parents built...
In general, whites have done a better job of building "privileges" than other tribal groups. My parents wanted me to enjoy what they built and I want my kids to enjoy what I've built...it's human nature.
Most responses here seem to suggest that people have no idea what white privilege is.
It does not mean that every single white person in the United States has more opportunity and clout than every minority does. That's silly; I'm sure that Obama's daughters have more advantages overall than just about everyone here, for example.
What privilege refers to is that if you can do something without even realizing any negative consequences or judgments, and yet another person of a different race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and the like has to worry about it, then that's privilege. An example might be that because Obama has not done a good job as President, that black people are being judged by that standard, whereas if a white person were just as unpopular and ineffective, nobody would consider his whiteness as a factor.
Are you sure he isn't involved in helping in the black community? Stewart isn't one for advertising his private life, and seeing he isn't a politician, he doesn't have to.
Heck, does OReilly do anything for the black community or does he just like to accuse anyone who is black that they look like a criminal.
What you could have done with the time it took you to post that smart aleck remark was do a 10 second google search on Bill O'Reilly's charitable contributions. Every cent from every book and from his website goes to charity, with a primary focus on veterans and underprivileged children. Since blacks are overrepresented compared to whites in both categories, yes he donates millions of dollars to help the black community. Next dumb question?
PRIVILEGE - A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
In terms of rights versus privileges, every American has the same endowed rights - until he waives them / surrenders them, by consent. As to government granted privileges, there are none that are based on race.
As to the assumptions by law enforcement and society, when confronting different subgroups, those are derived from subjective experience and objective data.
Some subgroups have a reputation for scholarship, hard work, polite behavior and respect for other people and their property. Some subgroups have a different reputation. But such an earned reputation is not based on racial privilege. And the individual treatment of one from a notorious subgroup may not be to one’s liking, it is not based on privilege, but upon presumption before all facts are known.
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