White Privilege

[Mr Sparkle]

you ( and others) don't understand.
some of these tests aren't even about white kids.
are you all so self involved that you cannot grasp the concept of "majority" as anything else than white?
these tests have been done on pretty much every kind of group, race, age, sex, height, weight.
in some cases, minority is defined as a "subordinate" group.
Jesus.

I have been accused of getting " emotional" about this, yet I seem to be the only one able to see it with clinical detachment.

i fully grasp the concept of the majority being something other than white, because it's been that way where i'm from most of my life. i was one of 3 white kids in my 5th grade class and i avoided the others like the plauge because i couldn't relate to them. the tests are **** because they don't take into acount anything other than race. they don't take into account dialect or housing situations or anything other than race. or are you so close minded that you refuse to accept anything that doesn't support your beliefs?

you fail at reading.

 

[raybia]

Certainly it was a privilege to be white in this country from a racial standpoint but its a privilege to be American from a global standpoint and I'm definitely not ashamed of that.

 

[Bubonic]

Certainly it was a privilege to be white in this country from a racial standpoint but its a privilege to be American from a global standpoint and I'm definitely not ashamed of that.

Shouldn't be a question of shame, that sentiment doesn't get you anywhere.
If you look at why it is a privilege to be an American from a global standpoint, the roots of it, and how it is maintained, it can be pretty sickening.

 

[raybia]

Shouldn't be a question of shame, that sentiment doesn't get you anywhere.
If you look at why it is a privilege to be an American from a global standpoint, the roots of it, and how it is maintained, it can be pretty sickening.

Yes it can be but we as Americans still benefit.

 

[lixdexia]

you fail at reading.

height and weight are inconsequental to the argument. what i'm saying is these tests fail to take into account regional and income based differences in people.

 

[q_ball76207]

height and weight are inconsequental to the argument. what i'm saying is these tests fail to take into account regional and income based differences in people.

WHAT?????????

 

[Mr Sparkle]

height and weight are inconsequental to the argument. what i'm saying is these tests fail to take into account regional and income based differences in people.

no they don't.
they are not even tests made solely in the US.
haha, fail again.

 

[Sandman138]

I grew up in a town where there is a less than 1% black population. If you are black and in this town, you will be harassed by the cops, no two ways about it. The town made statewide news because their new high school opened with two bronze statues of what can only be described as negroid monkeys. Nobody in the schools administration saw a problem with this even though the school is part of the Massachusetts METCO program that buses in minority children from inner city Boston. So yes, white privilege does exist. However, it's not just about being white, it is about social class and how much money you or your parents make. The next town over is one of those old industrial towns whose economy collapsed after WWII ended. Blacks, whites, latinos, and just about every other race you could imagine all live together there and they all get treated exactly the same... like poor people.

 

[terry78]

No one thinks white privilege exists until you're the only black/latino/asian person in an all white setting. Honestly, even if you don't have issues with brown people, there will always be something someone will say or do that will just cause an issue.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

*sigh*


Yeah, that's how I felt when my band toured to L.A. and my light guy and I went walking and ended up in an all Mexican part of town.
Everyone was on their porches laughing at us, mocking us, and looking like they wanted to kill and eat us.

So, I guess there's a Mexican Privilege in America.



I can't believe that people who are supposedly against racism, and unfair generalizations, can't hear how ridiculous they sound as they make these inaccurate, unfair generalizations.



How in the world could I be the only one who takes issue with the poll's either/or framing, and the only one who sees the beauty of case-by-case judgment?

 

[Sandman138]

There is truth in Wil's words.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

*sigh*


Yeah, that's how I felt when my band toured to L.A. and my light guy and I went walking and ended up in an all Mexican part of town.
Everyone was on their porches laughing at us, mocking us, and looking like they wanted to kill and eat us.

So, I guess there's a Mexican Privilege in America.

it's like some sort majority vs minority thing.
shh.

don't tell anyone.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

it's like some sort majority vs minority thing.
shh.

don't tell anyone.

Yeah.

In L.A.

In AMERICA


Notice how my being White didn't mean **** there.
Notice how it was actually, a liability...in America, depending on certain factors that are not necessarily the same everywhere else.

Notice how that proves that there is no blanket guarantee that White skin makes things easier for you in America...but rather, that life is more complex than that, and you can't predict everything about a person based on the color of their skin, because that's asinine racism...and how everyone who says that it "WILL" automatically be easier for a White person in America, regardless of other factors, is totally wrong?

 

[Sandman138]

Stop being so racistly white, Wil.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Yeah.

In L.A.

In AMERICA


Notice how my being White didn't mean **** there.
Notice how it was actually, a liability...in America, depending on certain factors that are not necessarily the same everywhere else.

Notice how that proves that there is no blanket guarantee that White skin makes things easier for you in America...but rather, that life is more complex than that, and you can't predict everything about a person based on the color of their skin, because that's asinine racism...and how everyone who says that it "WILL" automatically be easier for a White person in America, regardless of other factors, is totally wrong?

yeah, funny how things are.
to me it seems that you're making a good argument about how members of a perceived minority will be much, much more prone to be singled out in a negative way by members of the majority, specially if this majority also happens to be a ruling majority in the economic and social aspects of a country.
you're judging a machine based upon it's cogs and it makes little sense.
you know, it's not even a matter of racism ( the kkk variety) sometimes.
I remember this neighborhood in Chula Vista where a friend of mine lived, he looked quite Mexican and always complained to me about the looks he would get from some of his neighbors, some of them I gather didn't even " hate " him per se, but they did see him as " alien" to them, being that it had stayed a pretty much all white block for the last couple of decades.
you need to stop seeing this as a "white" issue and more of a
"majority" issue.
I've seen it happen in freaking Mexico, and I have no idea why you hold on to this baffling concept that a Hispanic majority in a neighborhood will make a white man feel uncomfortable but that a white majority in a country will not make a minority feel the same.

meh.