Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[paulpablo]

I really don't think you realize how you sound, peach.

- a great example of white privilege.....

Neither I nor Paul have to worry about how we sound. For whatever reason...it won't tar our "race"...an amusing thought on it's face...since a simple sequence would probably rule either of us out from membership in the Caucasian Cabal. Sure...sure...I've got the ginger beard and the hazel eyes, I look the part, and so I get the cred.......but I'm the only one of my siblings that doesn't have sickle cell......

If you want an argument to work you should really stop using me as an example of the things that won't happen to white people because their in the majority.

I don't know how many times I have to repeat this but I lived in a Pakistani community for 31 years, yes I have had to worry about what I say because sometimes I've made a remark it's been said it's a typical white thing to say and white people always say that.

My family has been told that we might aswell sell our house and leave by some old Pakistani who just came to our door to tell us that, I've been punched, called white trash and every other name relating to that phrase.

And that's not to cast a bad light onto the Pakistanis, the majority of the time they're great neighbours and there's worse white majority areas near me to live in, but in 31 years I've encountered some idiots.

So white privilege and all other arguments aside, don't say you know what I've had to worry about and what I haven't had to worry about at least without asking me first. And that's if you want any kind of accuracy or truth to what you're saying.

If I get told anymore about me not having to worry about being in the minority or the prejudice that sometimes entails from that I'll just assume people aren't reading what I'm writing.