There's no reason for you to feel guilt and shame. That is not the issue. I am as white as a newly emptied white flour sack. I feel no guilt, nor do I feel any shame for being born white. Such a notion is ludicrous, as ludicrous as others feeling shame for being born Black, Hispanic, ... but many actually do. And there is a reason for that.
Please read the article written by the dirtiest poor white upbringing that could ever be, as described and stated by the writer herself.
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Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person | HuffPost
Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person
By Gina Crosley-Corcoran
jeshus....
"“I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.”
given the population of the united states is majority white, that would be expected, just as if I lived in thailand, I would not be concerned with a lack of white people being represesnted. TV and media is OVERREPRESENTED of all sorts of minorities, as well as off color jokes towards whites that would NEVER fly the other way.
“When I am told about our national heritage or about ‘civilization,’ I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.”
We are also shown the folly of the slave trade, and how the south depended on it etc etc. history isn't like it was in the 50's. We have black history month, we have minority studies, etc.
“If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.”
there are over 20 million traffic stops a year, are a few racist, I am sure, but you have a media hyped racist cop agenda when the real issue is militarization of police, it's not a race thing.
“I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.”
So can any group. People tend to prefer to be just there. but I am not even sure what this means.
“If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area, which I can afford and in which I would want to live.”
myth, again over hyped to reach a conclusion.
“I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.”
again, hyped. and in reverse, are you suggesting a white person, moving into harlem was never harrassed.
“I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.”
Media hyped. does it happen, sure, but how is that a "privilege" I share? Poor white people, are followed and harrassed in certain stores as well.
“If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.”
Is that white privilege, or journalistic privilege. I doubt they'd publish anything I wrote.
But I don't discriminate to whom I rent.
I don't discriminate to whom I hire.
I don't harrass people who come into my business based on skin color.
I am pleasant to all my neighbors.
I don't teach history
I am not a cop
Therefore, I seem to have nothing to be concerned with, yet, I must acknowledge, but do what now, with white privilege?
Your author suffers from the same illogical conclusion that is "white privilege". you named something, but didn't tell me what I am supposed to do with this information.
