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You assume I don't pay attention to what is going on with this issue, I have been paying attention for a long time about it. In my early 20's I read Dr Kings writings and I understood them.
What I don't understand is creating such a thing as "White Privilege" Why do we need this? What is the function of this thought?
I can't stand it when some black guest on some talk show says "You white, you just don't know..." BS. There were plenty of whites marching with Dr King. They knew and I know what is going on.
Liberals coin these phrases not to rectify any wrongs. The purpose is to garner the black vote, to create a victim voting block that they can pander to, with ever helping them.
Well.. I would say the point is that that there is still an advantage to being white. Certainly things have changed in America.. I don't worry about my children getting hung by a white mob because they talk to a white girl. I do however worry about what happens when they are stopped by the police.
That's one of the real issues we have with race in this country.. is that racial issues are institutionalized. The problems are so ingrown that there is no recognition that they exist.
I see "white privilege" as a counter to that.. to educate people on these institutional issues.
and truly.. when you are white.. you just don't know. I am white.. but I don't really know what its like to have to deal with the issues my children deal with. It simply doesn;t happen and didn't; happen to me. I might have a better understanding than most.. but it Doesn't HAPPEN TO ME.
and its irksome when I hear people tell me.. a white rich, conservative male.. that when I bring up these facts.. its dismissed as "liberals trying to garner the black vote". and its "creating a victim".
That's just complete BS.