In an effort to show how "the man" is out to get the poor disadvantaged gentleman of color, I present a nonsensical poll for your amusement:
Evil Whitey still keeping down the black manCreekDog (38,775 posts)
I'm a white person who grew up with significant disadvantages, however if I were black...
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My circumstances would have been even more difficult to overcome, overall.
39 (98%)
My circumstances would have been no different to overcome, overall.
1 (3%)
My circumstances would have been easier to overcome, overall.
0 (0%)
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I, for one, am shocked at these results. After decades of affirmative action, somehow blacks can't seem to get ahead. what gives?
riqster (6,005 posts)
2. Hellz yeah. It was easier to get out of a trailer park
...because I could work on my diction, change mannerisms, and scrounge up some decent clothes, and the interviewers couldn't easily tell I was lower-class. Because I'm white, it was easier to pass.
I don't think rigster ever actually
left the trailer park
MadrasT (6,254 posts)
10. I am a white person who grew up with precious few disadvantages...
...and is ****ing grateful about that, because I know it was just dumb luck that I was born into a financially secure white family in the United States.
Most of my problems are so "first world" I feel guilty even whining about them (when I pull my head out of my ass and look at the big picture).
Obligatory white guilt here. Clutch that purse a little tighter in the elevator next time.
Nye Bevan (13,548 posts)
12. If Barack Obama had been born white, would he have still become president?
Who knows?
Okay, which one of you is playing in this campfire?
Gormy Cuss (27,459 posts)
14. Are you implying that he was aided by his skin color?
If not, what are you implying? That it didn't matter?
gosh, you think? It wouldn't explain the black vote at all, nope...