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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 590170" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>You put a lot on the table here. Let's try to deal with one thing at a time. White privilege is not a racist term. It is a cultural descriptor for multiple phenomena related to one particular race having economic and social advantages to the detriment of other races. Whites have long controlled the wealth along with access to the reigns of power whether in government or in the justice system. </p><p></p><p>White privilege manifests itself when whites assume that their advantages are due to a better work ethic, stronger values or innate intelligence. These assumptions ignore the systematic destruction of other groups, say for instance, Africans whose families were broken up or who were blocked from access to education or ownership of land. </p><p></p><p>The fact that African-Americans have yet to be paid reparations for the wealth they built for this country, wealth they never got to share in, shows a fundamental ignorance on the part of white people of our very shameful history. White privilege usually responds by trying to distance itself from responsibility for this by using four distancing strategies: 1). That was a long time ago. 2). It wasn't that bad. 3). I didn't have anything to do with that. 4). Black people have done a lot of bad things too. </p><p></p><p> I would recommend to anyone who is ignorant of our history that they take a trip to Montgomery, Alabama and visit the Equal Justice Center and the Lynching Memorial. </p><p></p><p>If I were trying to explain to a white person how the legacy of white privilege plays out today I might ask a few questions like the following: How many times have you been stopped for a traffic violation when you did nothing at all? How many times have you been followed by a store manager through a store because they thought you were shop lifting? How many times has someone been seated ahead of you in a restaurant who came in after you? How many times have you been turned down for a loan even though your credit was good? How many times have you been questioned by police for walking through a neighborhood? How many times have you been shot at by a police officer when you we're unarmed and not doing anything unlawful?</p><p></p><p>The point is, if you are white, these things may or may not have happened to you. But on average these things happen a lot more to black people on a far more regular basis. Recent </p><p>bi-partisan efforts at prison reform came about because research showed that prison sentences for blacks were several years longer than for whites even when it was an identical crime. </p><p></p><p>Much more I could say but I will stop there. Just keep in mind that the more privileged a group is in a society the more likely they are to disbelieve privilege had anything to do with their success and the more likely they are to believe that those who are less fortunate got that way because of some defect of character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 590170, member: 1640"] You put a lot on the table here. Let's try to deal with one thing at a time. White privilege is not a racist term. It is a cultural descriptor for multiple phenomena related to one particular race having economic and social advantages to the detriment of other races. Whites have long controlled the wealth along with access to the reigns of power whether in government or in the justice system. White privilege manifests itself when whites assume that their advantages are due to a better work ethic, stronger values or innate intelligence. These assumptions ignore the systematic destruction of other groups, say for instance, Africans whose families were broken up or who were blocked from access to education or ownership of land. The fact that African-Americans have yet to be paid reparations for the wealth they built for this country, wealth they never got to share in, shows a fundamental ignorance on the part of white people of our very shameful history. White privilege usually responds by trying to distance itself from responsibility for this by using four distancing strategies: 1). That was a long time ago. 2). It wasn't that bad. 3). I didn't have anything to do with that. 4). Black people have done a lot of bad things too. I would recommend to anyone who is ignorant of our history that they take a trip to Montgomery, Alabama and visit the Equal Justice Center and the Lynching Memorial. If I were trying to explain to a white person how the legacy of white privilege plays out today I might ask a few questions like the following: How many times have you been stopped for a traffic violation when you did nothing at all? How many times have you been followed by a store manager through a store because they thought you were shop lifting? How many times has someone been seated ahead of you in a restaurant who came in after you? How many times have you been turned down for a loan even though your credit was good? How many times have you been questioned by police for walking through a neighborhood? How many times have you been shot at by a police officer when you we're unarmed and not doing anything unlawful? The point is, if you are white, these things may or may not have happened to you. But on average these things happen a lot more to black people on a far more regular basis. Recent bi-partisan efforts at prison reform came about because research showed that prison sentences for blacks were several years longer than for whites even when it was an identical crime. Much more I could say but I will stop there. Just keep in mind that the more privileged a group is in a society the more likely they are to disbelieve privilege had anything to do with their success and the more likely they are to believe that those who are less fortunate got that way because of some defect of character. [/QUOTE]
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