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    White Privilege

    This is Your Nation on White Privilege
    By Tim Wise
    9/13/08

    For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are
    looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will
    help.


    White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin
    and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a
    personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents,
    because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families
    with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible,
    pathological and arbiters of social decay.


    White privilege is when you can call yourself a "****in' redneck," like
    Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with
    you, you'll "kick their ****in' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot
    ****" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a
    great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.


    White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years
    like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then
    returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no
    one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a
    person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and
    probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative
    action.


    White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller
    than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the
    same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes
    you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on
    themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S.
    Senator, two-term state
    Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested.
    "

    White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God"
    in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding
    fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from
    holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s
    and the "under God" part wasn't added until the 1950s--while if you're black
    and believe in reading accused criminals and *********s their rights
    (because the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law
    school, requires it), you are a dangerous and mushy ******* who isn't fit to
    safeguard American institutions.


    White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people
    immediately scared of you.


    White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
    extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union,
    and whose motto is "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or
    that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to
    come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of
    school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.


    White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the
    work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to
    vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child
    labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely
    question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no
    foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college and the fact
    that she lives close to Russia--you're somehow being mean, or even ***ist.


    White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree
    with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate
    anyway, because suddenly your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence
    in these same white women, and made them give your party a "second look.
    "

    White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
    political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a
    typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely
    knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you
    must be corrupt.


    White privilege is when you can take nearly twenty-four hours to get to a
    hospital after beginning to leak amniotic fluid, and still be viewed as a
    great mom whose commitment to her children is unquestionable, and whose
    "next door neighbor" qualities make her ready to be VP, while if you're a
    black candidate for president and you let your children be interviewed for a
    few seconds on TV, you're irresponsibly exploiting them.


    White privilege is being able to give a 36 minute speech in which you talk
    about lipstick and make fun of your opponent, while laying out no
    substantive policy positions on any issue at all, and still manage to be
    considered a legitimate candidate, while a black person who gives an hour
    speech the week before, in which he lays out specific policy proposals on
    several issues, is still criticized for being too vague about what he would
    do if elected.


    White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
    pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George
    W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S.
    is an explicitly Christian
    nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological
    principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict
    in the Middle East is God's punishment on ***s for rejecting Jesus, and
    everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if
    you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin
    Powell and the U.S.
    Department of Defense) that ********* attacks are often
    the result of U.S.
    foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism
    and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates
    America.


    White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a
    reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a
    "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word
    answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question,
    or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.


    White privilege is being able to go to a prestigious prep school, then to
    Yale and then Harvard Business school, and yet, still be seen as just an
    average guy (George W.
    Bush) while being black, going to a prestigious prep
    school, then Occidental College, then Columbia, and then to Harvard Law,
    makes you "uppity," and a snob who probably looks down on regular folks.


    White privilege is being able to graduate near the bottom of your college
    class (McCain), or graduate with a C average from Yale (W.
    ) and that's OK,
    and you're cut out to be president, but if you're black and you graduate
    near the top of your class from Harvard Law, you can't be trusted to make
    good decisions in office.


    White privilege is being able to dump your first wife after she's disfigured
    in a car crash so you can take up with a multi-millionaire beauty queen (who
    you go on to call the c-word in public) and still be thought of as a man of
    strong family values, while if you're black and married for nearly twenty
    years to the same woman, your family is viewed as un-American and your
    gestures of affection for each other are called "********* fist bumps.
    "

    White privilege is when you can develop a pain-killer addiction, having
    obtained your drug of choice illegally like Cindy McCain, go on to beat that
    addiction, and everyone praises you for being so strong, while being a black
    guy who smoked pot a few times in college and never became an addict means
    people will wonder if perhaps you still get high, and even ask whether or
    not you ever sold drugs.


    White privilege is being able to sing a song about bombing Iran and still be
    viewed as a sober and rational statesman, with the maturity to be president,
    while being black and suggesting that the U.S.
    should speak with other
    nations, even when we have disagreements with them, makes you "dangerously naive and immature.
    "

    White privilege is being able to say that you hate "****s" and "will always
    hate them," and yet, you aren't a racist because, ya know, you were a POW so
    you're entitled to your hatred, while being black and insisting that black
    anger about racism is understandable, given the history of your country,
    makes you a dangerous bigot.


    White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything
    at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and
    experiencing racism and an absent father is apparently among the "lesser
    adversities" faced by other politicians, as Sarah Palin explained in her
    convention speech.


    And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow
    someone to become president when he has voted with George W.
    Bush 90 percent
    of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their
    homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S.
    is increasingly isolated from world
    opinion, just because a lot of white voters aren't sure about that whole
    "change" thing.
    Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say,
    four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.


    White privilege is, in short, the problem.

    #2
    I am at work and too lazy to read the whole article, but the first example is pure bull****.
    When I found out that Palin's daughter is knocked up I was the first to call her a skanky underaged whore and her mum is a hypocritical dumbass,
    Nobody besides the extreme **********s was going easy on her, definately not me.

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      #3
      mang **** dem white ppl

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        #4
        I started to get offended by the article, till I took at look at the clown who wrote it:

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          #5
          Originally posted by Jim Jeffries View Post
          I started to get offended by the article, till I took at look at the clown who wrote it:

          Are you ****ing kidding me? That's him?



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            #6
            Originally posted by neils7147933 View Post



            And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow
            someone to become president when he has voted with George W.
            Bush 90 percent
            of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their
            homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S.
            is increasingly isolated from world
            opinion, just because a lot of white voters aren't sure about that whole
            "change" thing.
            Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say,
            four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.


            White privilege is, in short, the problem.
            Interesting read, and many points are true. This last one though is not. There are many reasons to vote against *****, the color of his skin is not one of them.

            If we actually look into both ***** and McCains background, we do find a history of racism...... and it not in McCain's background.




            Will people vote against ***** because he is half black : yes
            Will people vote for ***** because is is half black : yes
            Will people vote for Palin because she is a woman: yes
            Will people vote against Palin because she is a woman: yes
            Is this the problem with politics: no

            I find the people blindly following either the (R) or (D) infornt of the name with out looking into their positions far more dangerous.

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