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Ummm, OP.....it's 2018......you ought to be asking about BLACK and BROWN privilege nowadays....
Duh.
You mean affirmative action, race quotas, the rooney rule, rent control, section 8 vouchers, black history month, black historical colleges, BET, blackpeople meet.com, black panthers, etc?
Nope, liberals think reverse racism is fair and square.
Some people work harder when they think the "deck is stacked against them."
Depends on the person.
I’m sure that’s true, but I’m willing to bet more people are limited by it because that’s human nature. You’re always going to have the strong personality types who take adversity as a challenge, but many more people, especially disadvantaged people, are going to say they’re never going to get as far in life due to systemic discrimination and aren’t going to bother trying.
I’m white my parents even have a little bit of money and you know what they did when I was 18 and wasn’t in school? They threw me out of the house. I had to learn to make it on my own real quick. I was homeless for a while living out of my car, going to food banks, sleeping at friends houses. Those lessons I learned on my own at 18 were invaluable. Everything I have now I earned on my own, I take pride in the little things because I earned them. No one is going to tell me that I have what I have because of my skin color.
Take the ideology out of it. Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age and sexual preference still exists, despite many efforts in the public and private sectors to reverse this. Old habits die hard.
Take the ideology out of it. Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age and sexual preference still exists, despite many efforts in the public and private sectors to reverse this. Old habits die hard.
The existence of discrimation is no excuse for failure in life.
No country on earth is a utopia.
If you’re a weak and lazy person, yes discrimination is enough to stop you from successs. If not, then you’ll be like Ben Carson who came from poverty to be a world class neurosurgeon.
As I pointed out, there are 17 million white Americans in poverty so clearly “white privilege” is a myth used by racists to justify superiority.
Yes. That's why I typed "I've experienced it, personally." Not sure what was left up to interpretation there, really.
Short version: I was on a Greyhound from San Diego to Long Beach and had no idea that there would be a USCIS check along the route. I was by far the whitest person on that bus. The USCIS agent was - well, rude - but not to me. I was called "Sir", my driver's license was given a cursory glance and I was wished a good trip. The kicker: I didn't have my Green Card on me, meaning that I was in visa violation. It was quite blatant.
Thank you for getting it.
WP has nothing to do with economic success. It has more to do with the overt and covert experiences people face on a day-to-day basis.
You might experience WP when you walk into an upscale store, or when you walk into a bank, or when you get pulled over by the cops, or when you buy a new house in a neighborhood. Dane’s story is another clear example.
I don’t, however, expect most of the people on this board to get...or to even make an attempt.
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