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Can you explain why a Black executive at a Fortune 500 Company, making $2 million-a-year, gets on the elevator during lunch time and White ladies clutch their purses? As if he were a common thief, mugger, rapist? Can you explain that?
This is a little absurd, I hardly believe that a fortune 500 black executive gets in an elevator in an office building with 2 white women and they grab their purses tighter and stand in the corner for fear of getting raped or mugged. Bad example.
It's not about the color you are, is about the environment you grow up in. Would I mind being Asian, black, Hispanic, middle eastern etc and grow up in a safe, loving, environment, where I had good parents as role models, no I would not mind that. I am not talking about growing up rich, I am talking about growing up with options, and options are there if you have good guidance and are willing to go after them.
Again, I repeat: classism and racism are two different animals.
Let's put it this way: If you were an Argentinian, would you rather be White or a P.O.C. (person of color)?
We dont choose our color. We are who we are...
I am like Crisp, a latino from european descent.
If you see me walking down the street you will think I am white maybe mediterranean, a lot of people would think I from south Italy.
But once I open my mouth everybody knows I am latino.
Yeah, a well-dressed black guy in a Midtown office building doesn't look like a thug from the hood. White women generally don't fear for their lives in the presence of successful black men.
This is a little absurd, I hardly believe that a fortune 500 black executive gets in an elevator in an office building with 2 white women and they grab their purses tighter and stand in the corner for fear of getting raped or mugged. Bad example.
The reason you think it is absurd is because White privilege blinds you to the realities of what P.O.C. (people of color) face on a daily basis.
Doesn't matter what language you speak, or where you come from, if you say you're European that means you're White. Which means you are bestowed all the privileges White people receive.
We dont choose our color. We are who we are...
I am like Crisp, a latino from european descent.
If you see me walking down the street you will think I am white maybe mediterranean, a lot of people would think I from south Italy.
But once I open my mouth everybody knows I am latino.
Yes you are as about Latino as Christina Aguilera.
That beautiful White blue-eyed blond.
Next!
Yeah, a well-dressed black guy in a Midtown office building doesn't look like a thug from the hood. White women generally don't fear for their lives in the presence of successful black men.
Here are more examples of White privilege. You obviously do not know any P.O.C. (people of color) or this news would be old hat.
You want to talk about Rodney King? How about the white and Korean people that were pulled out of their cars and shops in the middle of the riots and brutally beaten to death, presumably because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and were, to their demise, not black? There was plenty of wrong done, and it wasn't just the fault of white people.
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