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Old 09-19-2008, 12:59 PM
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A black friend of mine sent this to me today. I post this, knowing that the right winged racists will claim race card. But this stuff is the truth. This is how it works here in the USA. Read the examples. You'll realize...

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What Privileges Do McCain and Palin Receive Because They're White? By Tim Wise, BuzzFlash Posted on September 18, 2008, Printed on September 18, 2008 What Privileges Do McCain and Palin Receive Because They're White? | | AlterNet

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at 17 like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a "****in' redneck," like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll "kick their ****in' ***," and talk about how you like to "shoot ****" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-size colleges, and then governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. senator, two-term state senator and constitutional law scholar means you're "untested."

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from holding office -- since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn't added until the 1950s -- while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school, requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do -- like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the eight-hour workday, or an end to child labor -- and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small-town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college -- you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women and made them give your party a "second look."

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the United States is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good churchgoing Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.

White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then having people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

White privilege is being able to claim that your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it, a "light" burden.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising and the United States is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.
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What the author is claiming as "white privilege" is nothing more than the spin the McCain camp is putting forth as part of its campaign propaganda. This has has nothing to do with any sort of racial privilege.
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That is the stupidest article I have ever read. It does not raise awarness regarding racial tensions in the slightest.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The people invading my neighborhoods and imposing their ways of life into my sphere, taking my jobs, are yuppy white outstaters and out-of-staters that swarm into cities for college and then stay afterward. They ALL drive because their parents buy them cars, which they don't know how to use in the city, and they especially disrespect bicyclists on the road. They dress like cookie cutters, talk like tools, consume mass media like boars, and generally don't have a clue about any of the unique issues going on in places where large amounts of people must share small spaces.

Yesterday I went into a grocery on campus to buy a banana for $.40. I gave the cashier two quarters, he gave me back $.60. I guess he's used to getting only greenbacks from customers.

Generally speaking of course.
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That is the stupidest article I have ever read. It does not raise awarness regarding racial tensions in the slightest.
I believe I have seen one or two that are worse, but ya that was a big load.
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OK which part is incorrect?
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OK which part is incorrect?
The entire premise of it.

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What the author is claiming as "white privilege" is nothing more than the spin the McCain camp is putting forth as part of its campaign propaganda. This has has nothing to do with any sort of racial privilege.
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OK which part is incorrect?
The assumption that all of these events happen because of Whites. The assumption that Whites are the root of all evil. Using gender, race, sexual orintation et al as a crutch is stupid. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but do not say that the root cause of our nations problems all steams from the evil Whites.
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Don't pussy out and claim the entire premise. Take an issue and tell me what's untrue about it. For example, the first one:

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White privilege is when you can get pregnant at 17 like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
Let's imagine if Barack Obama had an unwed teenage daughter. Would it be a private matter or would the case be made for black single parents where the father is absent?

Just imagine Limbaugh and Hannity and the rest, would they be treating the Obama daughter with as much respect?
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Don't pussy out and claim the entire premise. Take an issue and tell me what's untrue about it. For example, the first one:



Let's imagine if Barack Obama had an unwed teenage daughter. Would it be a private matter or would the case be made for black single parents where the father is absent?

Just imagine Limbaugh and Hannity and the rest, would they be treating the Obama daughter with as much respect?
I am not being a pussy ViolaLee. The whole thing is stupid bullsh!t. You are telling me that you agree that everything is the White mans fault?

Guess what, I have a child out of wedlock and still am not married. Members of my own family have told me it was disapointing and I was not being responsible. So its a two way street, do not try and tell me that its a minority only problem.

I cannot speak for Limbaugh or Hannity, but in my opinion it is a private matter. Their is no reason to be throwing children onto the stage and using them as a political talking point. You could be black, brown, green, blue or even Evil White and I would still say its private.
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