Only African Americans can end white privilege

Banks, realtors and residential developers used to burn money preventing blacks from getting housing because their white customers were going to throw bananas and Molotov cocktails the minute they saw a black family in their cul-de-sac. They were also flagpole-kebabing us for trying to attend their schools while they would still rightly elect Senators and congressmen that desegregated the South, Southwest and rural Midwest where they were shooting live rounds at us. And literally any middle-aged black professional who remembers career fairs, campus recruiting and can look up the LinkedIn profile of any former Applebee's hostess or white girl student athlete with non-relevant major whose start date was right around his or her own unsuccessful interview for the same corporate role knows that blacks, qualified, experienced or otherwise are not getting any preferential treatment in hiring, training, promotions, performance reviews, retention or racially insensitive department-wide joke email complaint follow-up. I don't know how a former evidence planting, overtime banking, prostitute freebee getter would convince me otherwise, no matter how smooth his fade.

 

My comment wasn't in defense of or even referencing affirmative action other than rebutting the video's ridiculous claims about its frequency of use in professional sectors. But you're obviously too stupid to understand how subjective hiring practices are from one individual HR screener, hiring manager, corporate department or company to the next, and clearly can't pass up an opportunity to both slander and fixate on individual blacks' IQ scores, so carry on bigot.

 

Only high-level realist and intellectuals source the prestigious university of Prager. As we all know, a very famous institution located in the Czech republic.

 

I don't have the ability... Denis Prager and his prestigious university just obliterate me, both physically and mentally. The Wilks brothers do as well.

 

White privilege is not primarily about the experience of the individual going into a store or securing a loan or whatever. The big consequence is that a population was able to build wealth and human capital over generations while another population was systematically denied the ability to do so.

I don't feel guilty about my white privilege, nor do I feel virtuous about acknowledging it, and I don't think apologies are the point. I think the point is understanding how the world has been built so we as citizens can be more savvy about setting the rules in a fair way going forward. (I don't much like the term white privilege btw, because honestly the treatment white people get shouldn't be considered a privilege. It's the way all people should be treated. I'd call it minority disadvantage or something -- but I'll need the marketing dept to come up with something catchier.)

He says that in a contest between 2 equally qualified people, employers fall over themselves to hire the diverse candidate. Experiments have demonstrated that still isn't true.

And the way he talks about profiling customers in his hypothetical store -- I'm not surprised he's a former cop. He does a good job illustrating the perseverance of institutional racism.

His idea that acknowledging a problem of unequal treatment is going to create a victim mentality among black people and make them angry -- well, I won't say he's right or wrong, but it's not a factual statement but some conjecture. I'm not sure what's wrong with being angry about injustice anyway.

I agree with him there are many kinds of privilege and white privilege is just one. For an individual, the other privileges you get may overwhelm any disadvantage of being born black. But again, I would counter that white privilege is not about the individual, but about populations.

He's not dealing in a lot of facts, but his main problem is in mischaracterizing what the idea of white privilege is about and then attacking a strawman. And, the kicker is that he never even said what black people can do to end white privilege -- unless he means to pretend it doesn't exist.

 

He doesn't get it if he doesn't recognize white privilege exists. The fact is white people dominate the highest positions in this country, and really even abroad.

The intellectual dishonesty is obvious. He uses a black lawyer vs a white meth addict. He compares a well dressed black person to one that isn't. He bases everything off of himself, while ignoring vast amounts of data and history. At no point is he really willing to compare white people and black people of similar stature in life.

There are very valid criticisms of affirmative action, and concerns about creating a victim mentality, but that doesn't mean White Privilege doesn't exist.

 

@Senator ?

 

In a nutshell.

 

Here is a short video by some random black guy who represents the thoughts of about 3% of black people to explain to you what racist white people have been trying to tell you for years now. Derp.

 

Hey... Wattabout that tweet full of evidence from that other thread where you said that tweet had evidence? I can't see the tweet...it has apparently been deleted. What was this great evidence that we needed to see but cannot because the tweet that you said had evidence has been deleted. Generally when that happens, it is because the tweet was FOS.

 

The truth often hurts, hence it was deleted.

 

I don't care if this individual fails to acknowledge the point.

 

At least he makes sense - and that's what unhinges liberal snowflakes.

 

Ok in detail what makes sense to you?