White Privilege Shapes The U.S

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Star Member MrScorpio (64,377 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/118747523

White Privilege Shapes The U.S.

Jackie Wilson Said (1,225 posts)
3. I have a relative who I lover dearly, who I believe is a decent person.

So I challenged him and asked him if he would expect compensation were he to have had land taken from him or money taken.

He said of course he would.

Then I asked what if you found out your father had land stolen from him when you were a teenager, 15 years ago, would you think you should be able to address compensation somehow?

He said yes, again.

Then I asked what if the relative that was robbed lived 100 years ago. He then figured out where I was going and said "no, that is too far back".

Bullshit, I told him. And then explained how his white privilege made that decision for him.

 

Star Member TygrBright (14,409 posts)
7. I wish it were just wingers...

...but alas, I know otherwise "liberal and/or progressive" white people who are still completely blind to white privilege.

If you point it out very slowly in words of one syllable, they'll still find rationalizations and justifications for why they've never experienced the challenges most people of color have to live with on a daily basis.

wearily,
Bright

Jackie Wilson Said (1,225 posts)
13. I was just observing someone showing support for Trump over Hillary and one

of that group posted a very ominous warning to me.

He deleted it before he could be alerted on, as it was very threatening.

Then I pm'd him and told him I considered it a threat so he treated me to a PM of a lot of rage and anger and so on.

Very angry they are. Scary too.

Oh, dear... the erased 'hate crime'.

Kind of Blue (6,509 posts)
8. Yup, "solidarity based on race."

Listening to a panel interview of both black BS and HRC supporters. One of the panelists said going back to Reconstruction, white Northerners made peace with white Southerners. Therefore, leaving PoC as the enemy because no deal was brokered with us. Nothing, just refugees, as a panelist termed it - and not the nice word migration - moving from South to North and still seen as the enemy affecting their income.

Star Member JustAnotherGen (20,608 posts)
23. Don't forget

Equality in health care - a wealthy black woman is far more likely to die than a poor white woman from breast cancer.

Don't forget - a true end to red lining so black middle class citizens have access to working class white neighborhoods (setting the bar low).

National education funding to even things up so "Puff Daddy" doesn't HAVE TO open a charter school in Harlem. That would hurt those in middle class white neighborhoods because it would be for example - a property tax grab from Manville NJ to pay for elementary education in Camden NJ.

For those already harmed by America's policies but approaching high school - identify the districts where black and Hispanic children were marginalized and transform education so they come out of high school with certification for solar panel installation, nursing assistant, lab assistant, book keeping, plumbing - electrician - HVAC licenses.

Time for white working and middle classes to see that their kids have opportunities just based on where they live and their wives/daughters/sisters etc etc have access to a health care system that is far superior to the one that black women pay a premium for.

1StrongBlackMan (28,517 posts)
22. Posted to for later.

 

[USA4ME]

Obama has already fixed all this. They're imaging things.

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[Carl]

Useless crybabies.