"“Only those educators who acknowledge the existence of white privilege in America, that ‘white’ is a culture in America and that race ‘is a definer for social and economic status’ can reach proficiency,” the Herald notes.
Well, of course. I'm still waiting for my "white skin privilege" check to show up in the mail, though.
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You make a withdrawal on your white skin privilege every time you interact with police and other authorities and they treat you respectfully instead of assuming you are a welfare cheat or a gangster.
You make a withdrawal whenever you enter a store or other public establishment and are treated as a respectable client instead of as a potential shoplifter.
You make a withdrawal whenever you attend a school and are filled with pride at the role people of your skin color played in the establishment of the country and in other respected spheres of life, instead of being made aware that until about 40 years ago, people of your skin color were prevented from voting, holding office, and seeking most respected positions.
You make a withdrawal whenever you look at people in authority and see very large numbers of folks who look like you, as opposed to seeing people with faces the same color as yours in power only rarely (we m ay have a black President now, but how many whites ones have we had?)
Get some education, old man, and you will understand where your check is.
So does that mean that I have to be black or a self-hating white to have credibility of thought and a just purpose?
....., YOU!
This is my non-intellectual reply.
@ anon 0807:
Is that you Tim Wise?
White Privilege, it's everywhere you want to be...
Anon seems to have swallowed some bitter pills. Me, I'm supportive of the underprivileged everywhere. Like in professional basketball and gangsta rap music. I'm for the white guys! That's just the kind of giving guy I am!!
The name of the text book in question tells us all we need to know "..moving beyond ETHICAL barriors.." Beyond ethical barriors would be moving into the UNethical thats all we needed to hear thanks move along.
Grenadier1
Oh and Mike see you screwed up. When you go back to court on those BS carry charges all you have to do is explain that there must be some mistake you should not have been charged and you just need to make a withdraw on your White skin privilege.
Anon 0807 - one of these days you really should get caught up on your reading.
Try some real history, and current events for starters. The "publick skool" lied to you.
Google "Irish immigrants" or "Chinese immigrants" for a little variety.
And the cops are very happy to hand out color neutral violence and death these days too.
For Anonymous at 9:48 AM:
Now THERE is a great idea! Of course, Mr. Vanderboegh would most likely end up spending extended hard time somewhere that Obama and Holder and Napolitano and the rest of their coven belong instead. But it's the thought that counts, isn't it?
}:-]
BOHICA
Anon.@8:07 a.m.
Your bloviating has no basis in reality. Not any more, anyway. ANY individual who is neatly dressed and polite is going to garner the same respect he or she gives. It's the way we are anymore, most places. Sure, inner city gangstas will get stopped a lot. However, that's all part of the gangsta mystique. It's also part of the victimhood mentality. It's how the race baiters and poverty pimps keep their "peeps" on the government plantation, and tax money in the pimp/baiter's pocket.
But you keep on telling yourself it's all whitie's fault that you're too lazy to get q job or create one; that it's all our fault you've become a loser, all by yourself.
I've known several, but two examples will suffice: a friend, whom I've known over 30 years, all on her own, became a biomedical electronics tech, got the highest score ever recorded on her certification test and had a scholarship established in her name for other minorities (blacks and women) in her name. The other is my wife, a native of Jamaica, who, ON HER OWN MERIT AND HARD WORK, went from housekeeping supervisor at one hotel to General Manager of one hotel and area manager of that plus another hotel. Further, in the time she's been GM/AM, she moved both places to profitability for the first time since their opening.
No, your comments are pure-dee balderdash. I suspect you know it, but your victimhood goes so deep you can't/refuse to see it. There is no more white skin privilege and hasn't been for a LONG time...
WV=louter: one who prides himself on his loutishness.
It's funny...
I've never been given a job because of my skin-color, but I've been denied a few when lesser-qualified candidates were hired to fill a quota.
I've never heard two white-folks conspiring to make sure another white-guy gets into a job opening, but I've witnessed it more than once among black-folk.
I've never gotten an SBA LOAN - because all that was available (for what the worker called "the best business-plan I've ever read") at the time was "minority GRANT money."
For clarity -- for the "slow kids" -- that means I wasn't allowed to BORROW money which I'd have to pay back at interest -- but if my skin had been the right color I'd have gotten a GRANT -- a **GIFT** -- which I'd never have to pay back.
My Father was part of the SCLC, marched w/ "Dr. King" and was even beaten by cops and threatened by the Klan. The one time I *INNOCENTLY* used "the N-word" - not knowing (as a child) that it was "bad" - he punched me in the mouth and it took 18 stitches to close the gash in my 8-year-old-face.
Even he is bewildered by what we as a nation and "the black community" in particular have become.
What ever happened to all that "content of their character" stuff?
"affirmative-action", anti-white discrimination and attitudes like YOURS are what keeps the tension going -- and the race-baiters and Democrats (who fought to keep you enslaved, fought AGAINST civil-rights and STILL keep millions of you down on the .gov-plantation) laugh at you all the way to the bank.
We Conservatives WANT equality -- the "liberals" (read:communist/progressives) **NEED** to keep black-folk ignorant and poor so you'll keep voting for the free carrots they offer.
And you keep right on falling for it!
Take a look around -- are black-folks as a whole REALLY better off today than they were 50 years ago? NOT EVEN CLOSE! -- yet you keep voting for the same people who enslaved your ancestors and continue to encourage you to keep YOURSELF down!
PS: as to the "cops" thing -- trust me: they harass long-haired white boys too, for the same reason they "profile" some of YOUR folk: because they fit the TRUE stereotype as someone more likely to have drugs.
If you'd open your eyes, stop falling for the propaganda put out by your REAL enemies and join the TRUE "freedom-fighters" we'd ALL be better off -- but then you'd also have to accept personal-responsibility and stop blaming the white boogie-man for all your problems...
"are black-folks as a whole REALLY better off today than they were 50 years ago? NOT EVEN CLOSE!"
Yeah, they were so much better off when they went to register to vote and were greeted with police dogs and firehoses. And then there was that "separate but equal" thing, that was great, huh?
You reveal who you are quite clearly in this.
You stand as a fine representative of the other braindead racists who responded to me, and all the others who wanted to but couldn't figure out how to make the comments section work.
You dinosaurs are the past, and your time is done.
I think that some who believe in historical variants of skittles, unicorns and glitter should do a Google search on "indentured servant" and "redemptioner". Some estimate that up to 80% of newcomers to the 13 Colonies before the American Revolution came under contract, exchanging their labor for transport from Europe, room and board for the contracted period. Slaves were owned. Indentured servants and redemptioners were leased. They are both specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution:
"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."
And do you have a point, Ed, or are you just trying to impress the many howling animals here that you have successfully done a Google search?
Any sane person recognizes that the fact that white indentured servants could buy their way out of servitude and black slaves could not makes all the difference. Any rational person recognizes that American political policy, law, and social mores were made for essentially the whole life of this Republic up to approximately the mid or late 1960s based on a racial caste system in which black skin was permanent assignment to the lower caste.
Are you in the category of sane and rational, or do you deny those facts?
Anon @ 4:52
If I recall my history correctly (look it up, don't take my word for it), until the early 17th century, blacks WERE indentured in most places. The first OWNER was a free black man who didn't want his indentured servant to ever be freed. He petitioned a Virginia court and was allowed to own the INDENTURED black servant. Check it out. And please, lose your attitude when you come over here. It's racists and democrats who want minorities disarmed. Check the history of gun control (victim disarmament) if you don't believe me. While you're at it, look up the early history of the drug war... back around Woodrow Wilson's time. See how the democrats demonized certain ethnic groups to get anti-drug laws passed... like the Chinese and smokable opium and sex with white women. Or, later under FDR (democrat), when it was marijuana, black jazz musicians and sex with white women. And on and on.
Folks like most of us here want EVERYONE to be able to exercise the SAME, GOD-GIVEN INALIENABLE RIGHTS. Look at that, then really LOOK at who wants to hold you back.
Let me get this straight. You think BLACKS in the US invented slavery? What role did the beings from Jupiter who visited Earth frequently between 1500 and 1700 play in this development? Did that first black slave owner have sex with the sun demon first?
Looking forward to your penetrating consideration of these important 'historical' questions.
Anon @ 11:30
I told you, look it up, don't take my word for it. Happened in Virginia in the early 1600s. I think it was in or around Jamestown. Of course, unfortunately it didn't take too long to spread, but it was a free black man who owned the first actual slave. And, sad to say, there were black slave owners right up to the end of chattel slavery in this country. There were also free black men who fought on the side of the Confederacy. Look it up. It happened.
This trope that "some blacks fought for the Confederacy, therefore the Civil War couldn't have been about slavery and the South's desire to keep blacks in a position of structural inequality" has been spoken to hundreds of times before. It's another forest and trees question. You lot demonstrate daily that you are not interested in knowing truth because you do things like this: point to some fact that is so rare as to be practically non-existent, then claim it is representative and gives a better overall picture of the event in question than the cases that are overwhelmingly more numerous. It's the same argument Klansmen make when they say, correctly, that there are some black people who behave themselves badly, and therefore punitive action against the whole group is justified.
Why do you believe a handful of deluded blacks who wanted to enlist on the side of their oppressors matters in understanding the war to end slavery in the US? There were some Jewish Nazi soldiers too; do you think their existence says something important about the nature of the Nazi regime and its goals?
"I've never heard two white-folks conspiring to make sure another white-guy gets into a job opening"
And I guess if you've never heard it happen, it never happens, huh? Why don't you tell us if you've ever seen blue whales mating, so we can definitively settle the question as to whether they really do or not?
I have a 10 year old child, and he understands why your reasoning is faulty.
"ANY individual who is neatly dressed and polite is going to garner the same respect he or she gives"
Then why is there so much research that demonstrates clearly that job candidates of equal credentials and equally middle-class demeanor differ in their chances of being hired by race (and, no, it's not the black job seekers who have the advantage here)? And why is there research that indicates that many employers don't even have to *see* skin color to discriminate racially, as when given equally credentialed candidates resumes, one with a typical white name, another with a typical black one, they tend to choose the white one?
You should try to inform yourself of this thing 'reality' before you endeavor to speak of it as an expert.
As I suspected, you have no point and no argument. Just child-like observations that no one alive today owned slaves. As though that had anything at all to do with the structural consequences of centuries of slavery and Jim Crow.
You would do well to trade in a few of those guns for a few courses in logic and argumentation.
No, anon, there's no point anymore, 'cause you refuse to see it. You wrap yourself in your precious victimhood and won't let anything interrupt your self-pity party.
What you won't see is how others look at you... like my wife, who's Jamaican by birth. She looks at American blacks like you with total disgust. You parade your whining and victimhood like badges of honor, make demands on other, less colorful Americans and resort to name-calling (online, anyway; I'd hate to think what you might try in person, so long as you had a few dozen of your homies around to back you up) when someone like me won't cater to your fantasies. Well, get over it, 'cause that's life. Man up and deal with life as it IS, not as you WISH it were.
Hey, nice work, DC, finally just 'manning up' and letting your racist self fully out of the bag. Let's see if I get DC's racist mind right: 1) anyone who believes whites are advantaged in America *must* be non-white, as of course all white people are right-thinking racists like DC, natch, and 2) they must be violent gangsters who would try to kill anyone who disagreed with them.
What a petty vision of the world. And for the record the only name I've called you is the one you've earned with everything you've said here: racist. Man up and accept it, DC, you might not wear the pointy hood but once you scratch just below the service there's not much separating you from David Duke.
And still not the slightest thing resembling a coherent argument about anything from you. Just whining about the poor white man who's being victimized by those awful blacks.
Sorry, anon. Your favorite word has just lost its impact. You use it far too much. I don't really care WHAT you call me. Those who actually MATTER to me know, and whiney-assed nobodies, you know, kinda like YOU, I just don't care what you think. Deal with it. Here's one honkie who just ain't gonna play your game. A.M.F.
Oh, it might not have any impact on racist gun blogs, when you're largely among your racist brethren, to out yourself as a racist, DC, but real life is another matter. You do know that what you say here is available to people outside your racist gun nut community, yes? And, whether you know it or not, the majority of the contemporary US does not share your ideas, which are right out of the pre-civil rights era Jim Crow South.
Remember, even by the claims of the racist gun nuts, you're 3%, and you're way overestimating there. What do you think the other 97% are going to do when you look for approval from them for your benighted, medieval views?
Stay in your cave, DC, because as soon as you come out of it and try to deal in the civilized world, you're going to find you're a pariah.
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