Hi LockeJaw: The White Privilege that I see as causing the greatest innate disparity
is experience with LAND OWNERSHIP, that affects relations with business, government and law.
(while the most divisive issues preventing collaboration on corrections
are either by GENDER and patriarchal politics, or by party rhetoric dividing people of the same race by CLASS.)
It is no secret that the families and generations with the most experience passing down property, business and government roles are from white descendants of property owners.
While African American and minority populations are behind on the same learning curve, not limited to just the direct descendants of Freed Slaves denied access to ownership for
150 years, but also the predominance of minorities in the cycle of poverty because of disparity in law enforcement, legal resources, and prison systems affecting the poor.
I have been volunteering for over 20 years in a national Freed Slave district, where the founders were more financially independent as noncitizens than the residents there today,
stripped of land ownership and not recognized as equals by local govt, which keeps abusing public resources to destroy preservation plans and national history, because of inequality in comparison with corporate developers whose plans get tax and govt support.
I have tried for years to promote the development plans of the residents, predominantly African American or other historians.
Where the plans fall apart is there is not equal ownership of the land; as long as the City owned the land and had more control than the citizens, they have abused that leverage.
For this system to change, the African American and especially descendants of Freed Slaves as in Freedmen's Town would have to set up direct ownership and control of the land, as a separate district, including a separate Federal Reserve and Court system.
The current system has been built for years on the principle that the people in power can rule over the people, even taking land and only compensating for market value, but not accounting for the loss of equal ownership and residual benefits and impact on posterity.
If you want to do something to end this disparity, I was going to petition Allen West and other leaders to come together and reclaim Freedmen's Town and the Federal Reserve.
I was about to give up, because no one else but a founding descendant of Freedmen's Town seemed to think this would make a difference, to create a campus to teach people ownership of land and govt, so people can stand on equal ground. Other people who get it are women, and that's a whole other battle to fight for women to be heard as equals.
If more men get this issue, I support asking men leaders to unite so more people may listen. Women get drowned out by parties projecting blame on class, where all the public media tends to focus on that. Women don't seem to get attention unless it's negative.
I ran into unequal division by CLASS and by GENDER, which was then projected onto race.
Because people don't agree which bias is worse, I have suggested to address ALL of them.
I noticed something out of the blue recently reading some lib/prog posts here, wondering if anyone else noticed- That regardless whether Lib/progs in public dismiss the differences in race & IQ, claiming the various researchers are conservative racists & that is why they came to the conclusions they did..deep down they accept the science, as can be seen by their policies that favor minorities because they view us, particularly blacks..as somewhat mentally challenged. Me myself, I don't buy IQ tests as the end all and be all way to measure intelligence, but I do not dispute our communities shortcomings on these tests..I see it more as a nurture over nature thing for the most part.
Anyway, a Lot of lib/progs have been throwing the phrase "White Privilege" around lately. I'm curious, what exactly that privilege is in their minds? Is it simply being the majority group here or is it Whites have an higher IQ than blacks & mestizos on average? They throw it out there with practically no explanation most of the time. So what's the deal, lib/progs?
