EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

[bodecea]

Her 2nd reason...

2. When my older sister was 5, a white boy named Mark called her a “******” after she beat him in a race at school. She didn’t know what it meant but in her gut, she knew it was bad. This was the first time I’d seen my father the kind of angry that has nowhere to go. I somehow understood it was because not only had some boy verbally assaulted his daughter and had gotten away with it, it had way too early introduced her (and me) to that term and the reality of what it meant – that some white people would be cruel and careless with black people’s feelings just because of our skin color. Or our achievement. If it’s unclear in any way, the point here is if you’ve NEVER had a defining moment in your childhood or your life, where you realize your skin color alone makes other people hate you, you have white privilege.

I saw a comment somewhat similar to that a long time ago...that no black person ever had to look in a mirror to remind themselves that they are black......

 

[impuretrash]

Some kids threw rocks in her pool, and one of her co-workers thought she was a bitch.

Is this racism?

Is this really something worth writing an article about? Worth tearing down an entire nation and a cultural legacy over?

Talk about "blow out of proportion!"

LOL!!!

The author invoked the Marxist theory of intersectionality; a branch of sociology which is all about reshaping the very foundations of society.

 

[bodecea]

What I see are cultures ruined by white interference and how whites created and maintain conflict by dividing the people in those countries. In America you whites are crying about how government is broken meaning the white system has failed. You repeat rhetoric that has nothing to do with what blacks are doing because it's the only way you can feel good about yourselves as you see the systems that you created fail. Whites are the one who consider taking stuff that is not theirs by violence and/or deception as success in your culture. That's what getting free stuff is and it is how whites have everything they have.

OK. At least now you're consistent and agree that "white privilege" is indeed nothing more than black failure .

That is moronic! And this is coming from a white guy!

Maybe, but you're a fag.

Brilliant! Just fucking brilliant! Thank you so much for that deeply thoughtful response to an important topic. You are an intellectual powerhouse and a real assets to the level of academic discourse on the USMB . LOL Not really. Grow the fuck up moron!!

You're not a fag?! You seem to stick to fag topics like teaching kids about butt sex in a recent thread. Strange!

An example of a homo-voyeur.

 

[IM2]

Denial is all part of it. Now go on and talk to the white person who determined this and talk to her about your white privilege card.

Damned if I know how you tell the difference between "white privilege" and black failure.

I don't know anything about black failure. But what I see is a failing white system built on racism.

If blacks aren't failing, the world over in fact, why do you whine and try so desperately to portray yourself as a victim? Is it perhaps that such behavior and getting free stuff is considered success in your culture while the rest of the world views it as abject failure?

What I see are cultures ruined by white interference and how whites created and maintain conflict by dividing the people in those countries. In America you whites are crying about how government is broken meaning the white system has failed. You repeat rhetoric that has nothing to do with what blacks are doing because it's the only way you can feel good about yourselves as you see the systems that you created fail. Whites are the one who consider taking stuff that is not theirs by violence and/or deception as success in your culture. That's what getting free stuff is and it is how whites have everything they have.

OK. At least now you're consistent and agree that "white privilege" is indeed nothing more than black failure .

No, I am saying that what your white ass thinks is success is failure. Invading/occupying countries, stealing their wealth and create or exacerbate division among the citizens therein is not success.

 

[IM2]

This editorial is in response to a white person who could not understand the concept of white privilege. Why that person decided to ask a black person about it instead of the white person who created the concept once again shows ignorance of an issue and a willingness by some whites to dismiss any thought that perhaps whites have been the prime beneficiary of racial preferences.

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful discourse for more than just a handful of folks on Facebook.

Here’s his post:

“To all of my Black or mixed race FB friends, I must profess a blissful ignorance of this “White Privilege” of which I’m apparently guilty of possessing. By not being able to fully put myself in the shoes of someone from a background/race/religion/gender/ nationality/body type that differs from my own makes me part of the problem, according to what I’m now hearing. Despite my treating everyone with respect and humor my entire life (as far as I know), I’m somehow complicit in the misfortune of others. I’m not saying I’m colorblind, but whatever racism/sexism/other -ism my life experience has instilled in me stays within me, and is not manifested in the way I treat others (which is not the case with far too many, I know).

So that I may be enlightened, can you please share with me some examples of institutional racism that have made an indelible mark upon you? If I am to understand this, I need people I know personally to show me how I’m missing what’s going on. Personal examples only. I’m not trying to be insensitive, I only want to understand (but not from the media). I apologize if this comes off as crass or offends anyone.”

Here’s my response:

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

Wow. She really has an enormous chip on her shoulder - and I bet she let's everyone know about it all of the time.

She has no chip. But you racists do.

 

[Oddball]

 

[IM2]

I made it to number ten of little miss snowflake's list of minor inconveniences she's faced and blown out of proportion until my tolerance for petty bullshit reached it's limit.

So you do agree that what she gave account to that happened to her was bad, but to you it just wasn't THAT bad, correct?

Some kids threw rocks in her pool, and one of her co-workers thought she was a bitch.

Is this racism?

Is this really something worth writing an article about? Worth tearing down an entire nation and a cultural legacy over?

Yep.

 

[bodecea]

This editorial is in response to a white person who could not understand the concept of white privilege. Why that person decided to ask a black person about it instead of the white person who created the concept once again shows ignorance of an issue and a willingness by some whites to dismiss any thought that perhaps whites have been the prime beneficiary of racial preferences.

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful discourse for more than just a handful of folks on Facebook.

Here’s his post:

“To all of my Black or mixed race FB friends, I must profess a blissful ignorance of this “White Privilege” of which I’m apparently guilty of possessing. By not being able to fully put myself in the shoes of someone from a background/race/religion/gender/ nationality/body type that differs from my own makes me part of the problem, according to what I’m now hearing. Despite my treating everyone with respect and humor my entire life (as far as I know), I’m somehow complicit in the misfortune of others. I’m not saying I’m colorblind, but whatever racism/sexism/other -ism my life experience has instilled in me stays within me, and is not manifested in the way I treat others (which is not the case with far too many, I know).

So that I may be enlightened, can you please share with me some examples of institutional racism that have made an indelible mark upon you? If I am to understand this, I need people I know personally to show me how I’m missing what’s going on. Personal examples only. I’m not trying to be insensitive, I only want to understand (but not from the media). I apologize if this comes off as crass or offends anyone.”

Here’s my response:

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

Wow. She really has an enormous chip on her shoulder - and I bet she let's everyone know about it all of the time.

She has no chip. But you racists do.

Notice the judgement of that poster without knowing the author.......even tho the article is writing in quite a friendly manner.

 

[boedicca]

This editorial is in response to a white person who could not understand the concept of white privilege. Why that person decided to ask a black person about it instead of the white person who created the concept once again shows ignorance of an issue and a willingness by some whites to dismiss any thought that perhaps whites have been the prime beneficiary of racial preferences.

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful discourse for more than just a handful of folks on Facebook.

Here’s his post:

“To all of my Black or mixed race FB friends, I must profess a blissful ignorance of this “White Privilege” of which I’m apparently guilty of possessing. By not being able to fully put myself in the shoes of someone from a background/race/religion/gender/ nationality/body type that differs from my own makes me part of the problem, according to what I’m now hearing. Despite my treating everyone with respect and humor my entire life (as far as I know), I’m somehow complicit in the misfortune of others. I’m not saying I’m colorblind, but whatever racism/sexism/other -ism my life experience has instilled in me stays within me, and is not manifested in the way I treat others (which is not the case with far too many, I know).

So that I may be enlightened, can you please share with me some examples of institutional racism that have made an indelible mark upon you? If I am to understand this, I need people I know personally to show me how I’m missing what’s going on. Personal examples only. I’m not trying to be insensitive, I only want to understand (but not from the media). I apologize if this comes off as crass or offends anyone.”

Here’s my response:

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

Wow. She really has an enormous chip on her shoulder - and I bet she let's everyone know about it all of the time.

She has no chip. But you racists do.

^^^ Yet another Racist Race Baiting post in Racist Race Baiting thread by a Racist Race Baiting Racer Baiiter ^^^

Here's the real difference between you and the whinging authoress and me, swampy. I don't keep an Epic List of Grievances going back to my earlier childhood. I do grok that there are a great variety of people in the world and not all of them will be happy with me nor I with them. Que Sera Sear. Life is too short to nurse such grievances...but if that is how you and Lori wish to live, knock yourselves out.

 

[boedicca]

This editorial is in response to a white person who could not understand the concept of white privilege. Why that person decided to ask a black person about it instead of the white person who created the concept once again shows ignorance of an issue and a willingness by some whites to dismiss any thought that perhaps whites have been the prime beneficiary of racial preferences.

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful discourse for more than just a handful of folks on Facebook.

Here’s his post:

“To all of my Black or mixed race FB friends, I must profess a blissful ignorance of this “White Privilege” of which I’m apparently guilty of possessing. By not being able to fully put myself in the shoes of someone from a background/race/religion/gender/ nationality/body type that differs from my own makes me part of the problem, according to what I’m now hearing. Despite my treating everyone with respect and humor my entire life (as far as I know), I’m somehow complicit in the misfortune of others. I’m not saying I’m colorblind, but whatever racism/sexism/other -ism my life experience has instilled in me stays within me, and is not manifested in the way I treat others (which is not the case with far too many, I know).

So that I may be enlightened, can you please share with me some examples of institutional racism that have made an indelible mark upon you? If I am to understand this, I need people I know personally to show me how I’m missing what’s going on. Personal examples only. I’m not trying to be insensitive, I only want to understand (but not from the media). I apologize if this comes off as crass or offends anyone.”

Here’s my response:

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

Wow. She really has an enormous chip on her shoulder - and I bet she let's everyone know about it all of the time.

She has no chip. But you racists do.

Notice the judgement of that poster without knowing the author.......even tho the article is writing in quite a friendly manner.

I actually read the entire article. You clear didn't or if you did, you do not grok it.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

This editorial is in response to a white person who could not understand the concept of white privilege. Why that person decided to ask a black person about it instead of the white person who created the concept once again shows ignorance of an issue and a willingness by some whites to dismiss any thought that perhaps whites have been the prime beneficiary of racial preferences.

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful discourse for more than just a handful of folks on Facebook.

Here’s his post:

“To all of my Black or mixed race FB friends, I must profess a blissful ignorance of this “White Privilege” of which I’m apparently guilty of possessing. By not being able to fully put myself in the shoes of someone from a background/race/religion/gender/ nationality/body type that differs from my own makes me part of the problem, according to what I’m now hearing. Despite my treating everyone with respect and humor my entire life (as far as I know), I’m somehow complicit in the misfortune of others. I’m not saying I’m colorblind, but whatever racism/sexism/other -ism my life experience has instilled in me stays within me, and is not manifested in the way I treat others (which is not the case with far too many, I know).

So that I may be enlightened, can you please share with me some examples of institutional racism that have made an indelible mark upon you? If I am to understand this, I need people I know personally to show me how I’m missing what’s going on. Personal examples only. I’m not trying to be insensitive, I only want to understand (but not from the media). I apologize if this comes off as crass or offends anyone.”

Here’s my response:

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

Thank you for this.!! I'm an old white guy living- as I have had most of my life- in the North East. While I have been aware of my white privilege to some degree, this article was an eye opener and definitely enhanced by understanding of what it means

I will share one memory of being the recipient of white privilege. I was a major fuck up in high school and barley squeaked by. I was defiantly not college bound and my options were limited. I applied for a job in a local factory and was hired, expecting that I would be on the assembly line or sweeping floors, as the other applicants, mostly back and brown people were.

However, I was assigned tp a special section called the "Sample Unit" where I assisted experienced mechanics is building and testing business machines. Time doing tedious, repetitious work was minimal. Part of the job was to travel with the crew to upscale offices in the Wall Street area in New York to service these machines. Ya think that they wanted black kids there ?? LOL . They even sent me out of state on my own to oversee the installation of a system there with less than a year on the job and no formal training. I fucked the job up but that's another story. In closing, I will say that people like oddball are fucking idiots and a stain on society

LOL, A lot of "Whites" haven't been treated particularly well in the U.S.A, aren't you an Italian / Jewish mixture?

Groups like Italians, Poles, French, Russians, Albanians, and even Jews are often harassed pretty openly in the public, to media, and Hollywood at least "At Times".

The major difference is that it's seen as okay to bash everyone of those groups without repercussion, except in the case of Jews.

 

[IM2]

This editorial is in response to a white person who could not understand the concept of white privilege. Why that person decided to ask a black person about it instead of the white person who created the concept once again shows ignorance of an issue and a willingness by some whites to dismiss any thought that perhaps whites have been the prime beneficiary of racial preferences.

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful discourse for more than just a handful of folks on Facebook.

Here’s his post:

“To all of my Black or mixed race FB friends, I must profess a blissful ignorance of this “White Privilege” of which I’m apparently guilty of possessing. By not being able to fully put myself in the shoes of someone from a background/race/religion/gender/ nationality/body type that differs from my own makes me part of the problem, according to what I’m now hearing. Despite my treating everyone with respect and humor my entire life (as far as I know), I’m somehow complicit in the misfortune of others. I’m not saying I’m colorblind, but whatever racism/sexism/other -ism my life experience has instilled in me stays within me, and is not manifested in the way I treat others (which is not the case with far too many, I know).

So that I may be enlightened, can you please share with me some examples of institutional racism that have made an indelible mark upon you? If I am to understand this, I need people I know personally to show me how I’m missing what’s going on. Personal examples only. I’m not trying to be insensitive, I only want to understand (but not from the media). I apologize if this comes off as crass or offends anyone.”

Here’s my response:

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

Wow. She really has an enormous chip on her shoulder - and I bet she let's everyone know about it all of the time.

She has no chip. But you racists do.

^^^ Yet another Racist Race Baiting post in Racist Race Baiting thread by a Racist Race Baiting Racer Baiiter ^^^

Here's the real difference between you and the whinging authoress and me, swampy. I don't keep an Epic List of Grievances going back to my earlier childhood. I do grok that there are a great variety of people in the world and not all of them will be happy with me nor I with them. Que Sera Sear. Life is too short to nurse such grievances...but if that is how you and Lori wish to live, knock yourselves out.

That's because your bitch ass hasn't had to face racism your whole life. If a person provides a piece of shit like you with one example you dismiss it as anecdotal or how it's only a rare occurrence. So STFU.

 

[IM2]

These are the same people who troll off topic every day. And then they create white racist bait threads all over the forum. USMB apparently stands for Underground Stormfront Members Bureau.

 

[Wyatt earp]

You do know a black guy was our last president right?




.

Well then.....all white privilege is now rescinded....POOF!

Still the same ol' excuse huh?

 

[impuretrash]

These are the same people who troll off topic every day. And then they create white racist bait threads all over the forum. USMB apparently stands for Underground Stormfront Members Bureau.

they create white racist bait threads all over the forum

Top 10 Ways Black People Keep Racism Alive
The Long History of White Nationalism in America
Republicans use black woman, Jewish man to gaslight Congress on threat of white nationalism
Stories the racists miss
Racism is a hoax
Race hustlers
Race and Gangs
BUT BLACKS COMMIT MORE CRIMES”: Scholars discuss conservative logic
The perfect example of how whites love black sellouts

 

[MAGAman]

I know, that's why I told Cletus he did not have the right answer. You whites are the victim class.

You ASSume I'm white.

I guess you think anyone that doesn't step-n-fetch for Democrat Massas gotsta be white...

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

This editorial is in response to a white person who could not understand the concept of white privilege. Why that person decided to ask a black person about it instead of the white person who created the concept once again shows ignorance of an issue and a willingness by some whites to dismiss any thought that perhaps whites have been the prime beneficiary of racial preferences.

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday I was tagged in a post by an old high school friend, asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful discourse for more than just a handful of folks on Facebook.

Here’s his post:

“To all of my Black or mixed race FB friends, I must profess a blissful ignorance of this “White Privilege” of which I’m apparently guilty of possessing. By not being able to fully put myself in the shoes of someone from a background/race/religion/gender/ nationality/body type that differs from my own makes me part of the problem, according to what I’m now hearing. Despite my treating everyone with respect and humor my entire life (as far as I know), I’m somehow complicit in the misfortune of others. I’m not saying I’m colorblind, but whatever racism/sexism/other -ism my life experience has instilled in me stays within me, and is not manifested in the way I treat others (which is not the case with far too many, I know).

So that I may be enlightened, can you please share with me some examples of institutional racism that have made an indelible mark upon you? If I am to understand this, I need people I know personally to show me how I’m missing what’s going on. Personal examples only. I’m not trying to be insensitive, I only want to understand (but not from the media). I apologize if this comes off as crass or offends anyone.”

Here’s my response:

EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege

Thank you for this.!! I'm an old white guy living- as I have had most of my life- in the North East. While I have been aware of my white privilege to some degree, this article was an eye opener and definitely enhanced by understanding of what it means

I will share one memory of being the recipient of white privilege. I was a major fuck up in high school and barley squeaked by. I was defiantly not college bound and my options were limited. I applied for a job in a local factory and was hired, expecting that I would be on the assembly line or sweeping floors, as the other applicants, mostly back and brown people were.

However, I was assigned tp a special section called the "Sample Unit" where I assisted experienced mechanics is building and testing business machines. Time doing tedious, repetitious work was minimal. Part of the job was to travel with the crew to upscale offices in the Wall Street area in New York to service these machines. Ya think that they wanted black kids there ?? LOL . They even sent me out of state on my own to oversee the installation of a system there with less than a year on the job and no formal training. I fucked the job up but that's another story. In closing, I will say that people like oddball are fucking idiots and a stain on society

LOL, A lot of "Whites" haven't been treated particularly well in the U.S.A, aren't you an Italian / Jewish mixture?

Groups like Italians, Poles, French, Russians, Albanians, and even Jews are often harassed pretty openly in the puand Catholic. blic, to media, and Hollywood at least "At Times".

The major difference is that it's seen as okay to bash everyone of those groups without repercussion, except in the case of Jews.

Yes I am a mix of Italian and Hungarian Jew. Add to that Irish and Catholic. I'm a real mutt. So where are you coming from with that? The fact is that I was just viewed as a white guy at the time. They could have cared less who my parents were .

I will add though that my mother- who was Italian and born here shortly after her parents came over on "the boat" was called the "N" word because she was a little dark. It was ok to bash those other groups then but not now.

And yes, whites were not always treated well. Case in point the Irish. So what? How does that diminish the issue of white privilege in relation to black and brown people today? It does not.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

When I first read the title of the thread, I thought IM2 was saying he had a white friend.

Everyone here knows that's an impossibility. ...

I guess I married my enemy .

You arent even good at being a racist LOL what a fuckin loser

That's because I'm not a racist you stupid motherfucker.

Lol and i was born on venus, you lying dumbfuck

But IM2 can trace his lineage all the way back to Uranus.

 

[IM2]

These are the same people who troll off topic every day. And then they create white racist bait threads all over the forum. USMB apparently stands for Underground Stormfront Members Bureau.

they create white racist bait threads all over the forum

Top 10 Ways Black People Keep Racism Alive
The Long History of White Nationalism in America
Republicans use black woman, Jewish man to gaslight Congress on threat of white nationalism
Stories the racists miss
Racism is a hoax
Race hustlers
Race and Gangs
BUT BLACKS COMMIT MORE CRIMES”: Scholars discuss conservative logic
The perfect example of how whites love black sellouts

These aren't racist bait threads.

 

[impuretrash]

These are the same people who troll off topic every day. And then they create white racist bait threads all over the forum. USMB apparently stands for Underground Stormfront Members Bureau.

they create white racist bait threads all over the forum

Top 10 Ways Black People Keep Racism Alive
The Long History of White Nationalism in America
Republicans use black woman, Jewish man to gaslight Congress on threat of white nationalism
Stories the racists miss
Racism is a hoax
Race hustlers
Race and Gangs
BUT BLACKS COMMIT MORE CRIMES”: Scholars discuss conservative logic
The perfect example of how whites love black sellouts

These aren't racist bait threads.

Uh huh. It's not racism when you do it.