Cecilie1200
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Have you ever walked into a store and not been followed by security because they thought you might steal something?I’ve been wondering about this since the entire white privilege thing started. Kinda looking around for it. If I had it at all it sure as hell wasn't helping me. Im still looking for it. Has anyone actually found their white privilege?
White privilege.
Been pulled over and not had your car searched?
White privilege.
And so on.
Another story or two...
I used to work public sector in Houston. We went to a conference in Austin and stayed at the Double Tree across from the Erwin Center. I arrived in the afternoon and presented my organization's travel voucher and was given a room and some cookies. A young Hispanic gentleman (US Navy veteran who served in combat) who was actually younger than me and my direct supervisor came in around 7PM that evening. He presented his voucher and was asked to also present a credit card to pay for the room. When he asked why he needed to present a credit card for the room, he was told it was to cover incidentals and any damages that are done to the room.
A relative of mine who is Hispanic and his Anglo wife were in a shopping mall when it got late and they announced the mall would be closing in a few minutes. They had parked outside of Dillards and were wanting to pass through the Dillards store so they could exit near their car. A gentleman (white guy) told them that they would have to go out the mall entrance and this would force them to walk around the anchor store at Deerbrook Mall in Humble, Texas. It's a very large store and this was not a minor inconvenience considering they were also pushing a baby carriage with their young daughter in it. As they were walking down the hallway to exit the store, a white couple came up to the same door and were let into Dillards. Its unclear if they were pass-throughs or shoppers.
Those are two of the many cases where I experienced White privilege.
This doesn't count all of the times I was at the beach or park and the police chose not to stop and search me
I'm hearing a lot of ASSumptions, and no actual evidence. "My supervisor had to present a credit card, and I didn't, and he was Asian and I'm not, so THAT HAS TO BE THE REASON." Except that I'm white, and I've never checked into a hotel without having to have a credit card on file. I happen to know that it's standard hotel procedure, which makes me rather skeptical of the anecdote.
"It's unclear whether the other couple were pass-throughs or shoppers, but he's Hispanic, so I KNOW that was the reason." Yeah, or maybe they actually were shoppers. Maybe they were friends with the security guard. Maybe they were related to the manager of the Dillards. Maybe a lot of fucking things.
Those are two examples of a racist dipshit assuming that because all HE/SHE can see is people's race, that must mean everyone else has the same problem. Call it "minority privilege", condemning other people for a sin you want to believe they've committed without having to actually prove it.
The police didn't "choose" not to stop this person while wandering the beach or the park, and it had nothing to do with race. They didn't stop them because THERE WAS NO REASON TO. Believe it or not, cops actually have more important things to do than harass people for no good reason and open themselves up to firing and lawsuits.
