Complete and utter inane equine excrement
Now for a lesion that you are not going to like but that you badly need to learn. I am a white guy in my late 70s’ and I know a few things about while privilege and racism.
My first experience with white privilege was when I applied for a factory job . I was the only white guy hired with several other people. All of the others got shit jobs on the assembly line I, on the other hand, was assigned to a research and development unit where prototypes of new business machines were developed. The unit was staffed mostly by trained engineers and skilled mechanics, all white. And then there was me, right out of high school with no skills or training, being sent on assignments to wall street and other placed to help with the installation of the machines.
No assembly line drudgery for the white kid. THAT is white privilege in action.
A year later I joined the military. Still immature and not taking life- or the service -seriously I was always in trouble for minor and sometimes major infractions and even crimes. At one point I lost a couple of stripes, but later gained them back
. I know for a fact that there were people of color who got the boot for less than what I was guilty of.
Then on the day that I was to be discharged, I was AWOL because I was in jail on drug charges. However, when I made it back to base, much to my shock, there were no consequences. I was even offered a fat bonus to reenlist, which I declined.
Tell us again how there is no such thing as white privilege.
After discharge I continued to be a major fuck up. I got heavy into drug dealing and was eventually busted, and looking at 2.5 to 5 years in the big house.
However, my white lawyers convinced the while judge, to let the white kid off with probation on the condition that he go back and live with his white parents. While the prisons were chock full of black and brown kids, my punishment was to serve time in a ranch style home in a leafy suburb, where I got the help that I needed and a job that kept me out of trouble. Y
es, more white privilege that you claim does not exist.
In addition, there were several traffic stops along the way in which I was impaired on one substance or another but got away with it. I like to tell myself that I beat the field sobriety tests but the fact is, that I was cut a break, because I’m white.
A black guy would likely have been cuffed, beaten or maybe shot . White privilege id real
I remain convinced that had I been black or brown, I would have been dead, homeless or in prison before I was 30 . However, doors just kept opening for me because I’m white . Subsequently, I got my shit together, went to college , then got a masters degree and a good job. I then worked 35 years in a field that is dominated by women, and people of color. While no longer being the beneficiary of white privilege , I never felt discriminated against and in fact did quite well.
That fact alone should provide you with some valuable insight, but I doubt that it will.
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