Godboy
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I think its cute how you two racists are getting along so well. Maybe you can turn your racism into a duo act. Just a thought.Oh my gosh, you publish a lot of good works but THIS has to be my all time favorite, at least for today.I've said nothing racist. I have nothing to fear from your claim of back privilege.
āBlack Privilegeā Is Nothing More Than a Figment of the White Imagination
Lately the term Black privilege has become increasingly popular in the world of intellectual conservatism. Black privilege is the concept that there is a set of societal advantages that people of color benefit from, to which other people (pronounced "wīt-pee-pull") don't have access.
Of all the benefits of Black privilege, perhaps the most offered example is the hypothesis that Black people get to be racist. They get to say anything they want about White people. They get to have Historically Black Colleges and Universities exclusively for Black people. They get to go to meetings with the NAACP. They even get their own TV network. The entire theory of Black privilege rests on the premise that there are certain things White people canāt do, therefore it is must be privilege. Their familiar refrain always begins with, āIf White people did thatā¦ā
I used to play a game with myself. You should try it sometime. There are only two steps:
1. Take your remote control and start at a random channel.
2. Keep hitting the āup channelā button until you arrive on a channel with a Black person who is not playing sports, singing or rapping.
Thatās why BET exists. Thatās why there is a BET awards. Thatās why there are HBCUs. Thatās why there is a NAACP or Black Lives Matter movement. If Black people held their collective breath waiting for America to fight for, educate or award them, we would have long perished from asphyxiation.
Maybe Black privilege is a real thing. Maybe there are minor advantages to being Black that white people canāt take advantage of. But if we put BET, Black Lives Matter, HBCUs and Jesse Williams in a pile, and offered it to the Black privilege hypothesizers in exchange for:
- All the presidents until 7 year ago.
- 99% of every Supreme court justice in the history of America
- 99% of every congressman and senator ever elected to office
- Every measurable social, economic and political advantage
- A majority presence in every educational institution
- Every statistical legal advantage in the justice system
- A wide advantage in employment statistics, pay statistics and advancement statistics even among those equally educated
- Ownership of almost every television network, movie studio and major media outlet
Do you think anyone would make the trade?
In fact, what Jesse Williams speech exposed was the opposite of Black privilege. It reveals that even on a night when 965 other channels offer everything from Game of Thrones to college baseballā¦
Even during a time when the nominees for President from both political parties have alternately referred to Black people as āsuperpredatorsā and āthugsā¦ā
Even while every other week another police officer is either not charged or acquitted after pumping bullets into a Black bodyā¦
Some people still canāt bear to see us smiling.
Black privilege is a myth.
It is really just White privileged people lamenting whenever there is one thing they canāt get in on, contain or control. Itās like driving through an empty parking lot and complaining because you donāt get to park in the handicap spot. It is insidious greed. It is racismābecause no one ever asks why country music, comedians or Christians get their own tv networks and awards shows. Just Black people.
And to be clear, if White people felt this way, or wrote this, or said what Jesse Williams said the other night we wouldnāt need the BET Awards.
āBlack Privilegeā Is Nothing More Than a Figment of the White Imagination - EBONY
You're a joke.
THANK YOU!!!