The 'White Privilege' Lie
And why it does great harm to blacks.
February 16, 2016
Dennis Prager
A pillar of contemporary leftism is the notion of "white privilege." Given that a generation of high school and college students are being taught that a great number of "unearned privileges" accrue to white Americans — the charge of white privilege demands rational inquiry.
The assertion turns out to be largely meaningless. And more significantly, it does great harm to blacks.
First, no reasonable person can argue that white privilege applies to the great majority of whites, let alone to all whites. There are simply too many variables other than race that determine individual success in America.
And if it were true, why would whites commit suicide at twice the rate of blacks (and at a higher rate than any other race in America except American Indians)? According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, white men, whom the left argue are the most privileged group of all in America, commit 7 of every 10 suicides in America — even though only 3 of 10 Americans are white males.
Whatever reason one gives for the white suicide rate, it is indisputable that, at the very least, considerably more whites than blacks consider life not worth living. To argue that all these whites were oblivious to all the unique privileges they had is to stretch the definition of "privilege" beyond credulity.
Second, there are a host of privileges that dwarf "white privilege."
A huge one is "two-parent privilege." If you are raised by a father and mother, you enter adulthood with more privileges than anyone else in American society, irrespective of race, ethnicity or sex. That's why the poverty rate among two-parent black families is only 7 percent. Compare that to a 22 percent poverty rate among whites in single-parent homes. Obviously, the two-parent home is the decisive privilege.
Another "privilege," if one wants to use that term, that dwarfs "white privilege" is "Asian privilege." Asian-Americans do better than white Americans in school, on IQ tests, on credit scores and on other positive parameters. In fact, according to recent data from the Federal Reserve, Asians are about to surpass whites as the wealthiest group of Americans. Will the left soon complain about Asian privilege?
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White privilege is another left-wing attempt, and a successful one, to keep America from focusing on that which will truly help black America — a resurrection of the black family, for example — and instead to focus on an external problem: white privilege.
In doing so, the left has become the only real enemy the black has in America today.
The 'White Privilege' Lie
Dear
American_Jihad
Yes and no. If None of us are genetically related to the actual WHITE Founding Fathers,
then this is all psychological or spiritual but not genetic that we "inherited" authority and political
experience, and "connection" to the current govt, corporate and legal system of OWNERSHIP.
So if all of us are spiritually equal upon birth, then technically BLACK Asian Latino and every
other person born or naturalized in America can "inherit" the same advantages from America's legacy.
HOWEVER what I've found is that
(A) No other group has the history in their family generations of OWNING the land
that the govt operates on and taxes people to keep us subservient to govt.
The Blacks who once owned their own land in my district under their own leadership APART from the govt
started by European settlers HAD THEIR LAND TAKEN AWAY BY EMINENT DOMAIN.
The NATIVE AMERICANS all had most of their land taken away, and the ones who do claim ownership are still fighting to this day to restore their original sovereignty, but to this day are still under the mercy of federal govt.
(B) Blacks who have had a DISRUPTION in their family lines due to the genocidal acts of slavery that involved RAPE and wiping out any connection they had with their ancestral lineage and FAMILY NAMES/HERITAGE,
have MORE to overcome to get to an EQUAL level with people who didn't have GENOCIDE in their history.
So if you consider the Black family lines that are 150 years BEHIND on the learning curve of owning and managing property, this is NOT EQUAL.
The Irish may be have been enslaved and raped as slaves, but these were a minority among Europeans.
There are not as many Americans of European heritage with as close a family history tied to the slave trade, genocide and forced rapes as there are Blacks who have grandparents or great grandparents from the days of slavery.
If you can imagine the recovery time it takes to move from BEING property of other people
to OWNING property, that makes sense why it might take 2-3 generations if not 4 or more.
Now, if you compare THAT cultural background of being OWNED and SOLD as property,
plus the period of segregation where blacks were legally rejected and not considered equal citizens,
to what WHITE people have who have GENERATIONS of ownership in their family history,
how do you expect people to be equal?
(C) what we NEED is a system where people CAN experience the SAME PROCESS
the Founding Fathers did of establishing their own land, country and govt from the ground up.
If all people had that learning experience, such as setting up campus districts in each state, and/or along the border, where business and govt leaders in training can manage their own programs, property and entire administrative and financial system WITHOUT BEING UNDER the current system that was set up and passed down from the Founding Fathers, then maybe people COULD EXPERIENCE EQUAL OWNERSHIP and equal control in government.
Until we have something like that, too many people never experience direct control and ownership. So they keep depending on "other people" to run the businesses, govt, economy, etc. because it's "already under the current govt and corporate system" that was put in place by "other people."
Regardless if this "dominating class" is labeled in terms of race, black or white or whatever,
the CLASS system is based on who has knowledge of laws and ownership
and who remains a victim dependent on other people's management and decisions.
A lot of the minority classes feel left out and unequal
because they never had the same change to inherit ACTUAL OWNERSHIP.
NOT just buying and renting houses and commercial property UNDER THE CURRENT SYSTEM because the tax laws make you beholden to CURRENT GOVT that takes your land if you don't pay your taxes. So it's already under the control of some pre-existing collective authority.
When the European immigrants who built America ran into this issue of "pre-existent" taxing authority that controlled everything, this was coming from Great Britain, and America broke free from that, and set up a separate country.
So the people who never had that experience and never inherited it from previous generations in their family would benefit from being able to set up their own systems in their local towns, cities, counties and states where they have a chance to experience the same level of liberation from other people's control by direct ownership that ISN'T ALREADY under the given system that has been handed down to us.
Maybe we need some places that people can learn to own and manage from scratch
in order to experience full control and autonomy.
I don't see how we can be equal if we don't experience the same levels of ownership and control.
It seems whole generations get stuck in a victim mentality mode of being constantly under
the jurisdiction of other systems we can never control or fully participate in as equals.
So yes, in a way, we are ALL in the same boat because we're ALL under this current system as is.
But for people who feel a connection GENERATIONALLY to the Founding Fathers and descendants of that cultural class and lineage,
that isn't going to be equal to people who have inherited the legacy of Native Americans, Black and other minority cultures that came from slavery and oppression to try to restore their natural original state that WASN'T under the jurisdiction of Govt based on European dominated leadership and laws.
