RE: Is white privilege real? To what extent?
July 19, 2016 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2016 at 5:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm reading what you're typing, and accurately conveying those sentiments that you've typed even when you cannot bring yourself to do the same. I was raised to be an unabashed, proud, and overt racist. I can say things in a plain language that you, perhaps, find uncomfortable. As others have mentioned...you don't hear yourself speaking, you truly don't recognize it.
I do....I have heard it, I do recognize it. It's -entirely- familiar to me despite the fact that we live in marginally disparate countries separated by an ocean and common language (lol). Now, ofc, you can wave that off...you can refuse to wonder why someone like myself is so familiar with these sorts of comments..chalk it up to coincidence, if you like. You can do that. You can ignore it too, if that makes you feel more comfortable.
But I know where these comments come from. It's not pretty. You feel as if you're under attack for your race....and you think that this shouldn;t be so, even if other people demonstrably are. That, Paul...-is- white privilege. You can either own that, or argue...ridiculously, embarrasingly .......until you're blue in the face....but that wont actually change any of this, it won't make white privilege disappear. You understand, brother?
I do....I have heard it, I do recognize it. It's -entirely- familiar to me despite the fact that we live in marginally disparate countries separated by an ocean and common language (lol). Now, ofc, you can wave that off...you can refuse to wonder why someone like myself is so familiar with these sorts of comments..chalk it up to coincidence, if you like. You can do that. You can ignore it too, if that makes you feel more comfortable.
But I know where these comments come from. It's not pretty. You feel as if you're under attack for your race....and you think that this shouldn;t be so, even if other people demonstrably are. That, Paul...-is- white privilege. You can either own that, or argue...ridiculously, embarrasingly .......until you're blue in the face....but that wont actually change any of this, it won't make white privilege disappear. You understand, brother?
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