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From a Facebook posting of a California driver:

 

<<<Studies in white privilege, vol. 3,987,654,992: After a car accident today (no injuries; everyone’s fine) I stood on the side of the road. The person who hit me had been late for work and was in a rush, just didn’t see where she was going. While I, a white man, looked at my car, at least ten people stopped to ask me if I was OK. That’s such a nice thing to do, and I felt safe, as if I had support if I needed it: people wanted to help, which is a far-too-rare thing to experience in this world. But nobody stopped for the other driver, a woman of color who was twenty feet away, also looking at her car. Not one person. The safety and care that I felt from the social world in that moment was entirely absent from her experience of the crash.

 

This was a micro-example of the daily life of white privilege; there is no other explanation for what was happening on the side of that road. We exchanged information. She could not drive her car, and there it was again: if I had needed a ride, there were at least ten people ready and willing to help. She would have had to call someone and wait on the side of the road. So I helped make sure her car was out of the way, and then drove her to work. (I deserve no praise for this; it was not “generous,” as an insurance person later said. It was just the right thing to do.)

 

White people: if you, or anyone you know, is having issues understanding what students of color are describing as racism in daily life on their campuses, you won’t need to try very hard to think of an example like this from your own life. Connect the dots. The safety and security that you most likely feel when you need it most, without having to ask for it, is not similarly or equally felt by most people in this world. Listen closely to the students at Missouri, and Yale, and even (this morning) Harvard Law. Listen closely to Towson and Claremont and Illinois. They indict the system; they do not indict you individually. They indict a daily life lived without the safety nets and protections that you most likely can take for granted; they indict both the discrete and the systemic threats of violence that follow them, that stalk them, through their daily lives. Listen closely, and learn how to be an ally rather than a knee-jerk naysayer. Trying to prove that someone’s expressed suffering isn’t real is hateful and pathetic. Listen closely.>>>

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Originally Posted by CaptainCrusader:

Let me be the first to call b.s. on this article. This was definitely written by a negro trying to make idiots like you feel ashamed of being a white male.

It won't be long before caucasian males will be required to pay a privilege tax.

Pathetic what liberal progressive are doing to this country.

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Your allegedly clairvoyant observation is duly noted for what it is--the blithering of a bigot!

Originally Posted by Mr. Hooberbloob:

If this had happened in a black majority area, the white guy would have either been beaten or robbed while the black lady left alone.

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10 or 12 would have jumped in her car, then they would have called an ambulance, then the lawsuits against him and his insurance company would have started.

After re-reading the article, yes, it's BS.  It's about as believable as Hillary being under fire while getting off a plane in Bosnia.

 

Since we are telling stories, I once asked a black guy during basic training if I could listen to his radio.  He said no.  A few minutes later the same guy loaned his radio to a black guy who was no more his friend than me.  Black privilege got me once again!

Was once set upon by a pack of black girls because a black guy was talking to/flirting with me and they didn't like it. They felt free to hurl all sorts of racial remarks at me and no one spoke up. The black guy did say they were jealous. You think? Oh well, black privilege at work. Funny thing too, in my experience/observation, the white kids never seem bothered by black/white dating, it's always the black girls with the heads bobbing and lips flapping. Go figure.

Originally Posted by Mr. Hooberbloob:

After re-reading the article, yes, it's BS.  It's about as believable as Hillary being under fire while getting off a plane in Bosnia.

 

Since we are telling stories, I once asked a black guy during basic training if I could listen to his radio.  He said no.  A few minutes later the same guy loaned his radio to a black guy who was no more his friend than me.  Black privilege got me once again!

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You poor baby!  Have you gotten over it?

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

It's BS. The "source"? A face book posting. Yeah, real reliable "source" by beternnun, much like jt's "someone told me, or I read". How about posting some white folks experiences dealing with "black privilege"?

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How about YOU not automatically and knee-jerkedly dismissing anything that conflicts with your ingrained bigotry?

It was a white guy who wrote the post.  He appears to be a real left wing in California, teaching courses like Reparations -- blacks being paid for labor their ancestors performed as slaves. One of those courses students will be paying for the next 20 years with no market value.

 

Here is an excerpt from his Facebook page.

 

"When you teach a class on Reparations, asking students to chart the lines of exchange between tax records from the 1850s and zoning policies from the 1950s, and your students begin to lead the discussion, not waiting for you to explain, you begin to realize again how uniquely powerful the classroom can be, you leave the room feeling acutely hopeful, and you notice a sharp and distinct gratitude begin to bubble up, reminding you how privileged you are to have stumbled into the world of teaching -- which is all to say, I have always liked Tuesdays, but this one has been particularly good."

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