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re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by hawkeye007 on 9/27/17 at 2:02 pm to Eli Goldfinger
raised by a single mother because my dad was not around. went to college on athletic scholarship . Didn't graduate wasted my chance. spent my 20's doing stupid shite and got arrest for 3 drug felonies. Turned my life around in my late 20's . I keep the DA letter dismissing my charges on file that way when i am asked for them when i get a job i am prepared . I am white .
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by MardiGrasCajun on 9/27/17 at 2:05 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Oh, I'll go back even further for my white privileged family.....
Great grandparents on mother's side: Came from Sicily in 1906 with nothing more than their personal belongings. Started a strawberry farm in Pontchatoula (Oh, you know them bad boys are the bomb.) My mother and her siblings picked strawberries before and after school.
My grandparents on my father's side owned a barber shop behind Woody's grocery in Hammond.
My father served in the Korean War. My parents raised 5 children while working for the state of Louisiana (middle class at best.)
As others have said, my parents did the right things with their children....work ethic, education, right from wrong, etc.
I've worked unbelievably hard since I was 14 years old to get to the position I'm in today. Nothing was given to me or my family by anyone else. I'm now the Director of Sales and Marketing for one of the largest air conditioning manufacturers in the US. I also own my own clothing company that I started with $1500 and parlayed into $250K plus a year sales in less than 2 years. I work 12-16 hours a day. Where's my advantages?
ETA: I raise a child that's not mine as if she is mine. Her real dad is a deadbeat. I'm not perfect any any means but I try to do the right things in life and my life is good because of it.
Great grandparents on mother's side: Came from Sicily in 1906 with nothing more than their personal belongings. Started a strawberry farm in Pontchatoula (Oh, you know them bad boys are the bomb.) My mother and her siblings picked strawberries before and after school.
My grandparents on my father's side owned a barber shop behind Woody's grocery in Hammond.
My father served in the Korean War. My parents raised 5 children while working for the state of Louisiana (middle class at best.)
As others have said, my parents did the right things with their children....work ethic, education, right from wrong, etc.
I've worked unbelievably hard since I was 14 years old to get to the position I'm in today. Nothing was given to me or my family by anyone else. I'm now the Director of Sales and Marketing for one of the largest air conditioning manufacturers in the US. I also own my own clothing company that I started with $1500 and parlayed into $250K plus a year sales in less than 2 years. I work 12-16 hours a day. Where's my advantages?
ETA: I raise a child that's not mine as if she is mine. Her real dad is a deadbeat. I'm not perfect any any means but I try to do the right things in life and my life is good because of it.
This post was edited on 9/27 at 2:09 pm
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by shinerfan on 9/27/17 at 2:08 pm to MardiGrasCajun
In my bare feet I'm around 6'2-1/2. Being tall has been much more of an advantage in my life than being white.
This post was edited on 9/27 at 2:12 pm
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by FelicianaTigerfan on 9/27/17 at 2:10 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I was born white
Even though my parents drank and fought a lot eventually divorcing, my father paid child support and maintained employment and a part of my life
Things that my otherwise dysfunctional parents taught me:
-Obey the law, even if you don't agree with it
-Respect the process. If you don't agree with something there is always a process for it
-Respect others property
-Be honest and hard working. $100 dollars earned by hard, honest work will stretch a lot farther than $1000 gained by being a liar or lazy ( metaphorically of course)
- I was privileged enough to be raised in a rural area.
- I was privileged enough to work as a teen in the hay fields making a lucrative .15 a bale for every one I loaded on a trailer
- In my rebellious teen years I did just enough school work to graduate
- I was allowed to make mistakes to teach me a lesson. Which included being caught with 2 beers at the age of 16 which resulted in 36 hours of community service and 2 years of active supervised probation
- I was privileged to have an older brother that was a drug addict and thief and was able to learn from his mistakes
- After graduating high school at 17 I was privileged enough to get $1500 from my parents as 'start up" money when I moved 800 miles away to a small town in Texas
- A year later when I had failed they provided me with $300 to make it back to La and gave me my room back that I now paid rent for
- I was literate enough to fill out job applications and get a job
- I was able to use previous life lessons to build a somewhat stable life and live within my means
- I married the love of my life then decided to have children
Even though my parents drank and fought a lot eventually divorcing, my father paid child support and maintained employment and a part of my life
Things that my otherwise dysfunctional parents taught me:
-Obey the law, even if you don't agree with it
-Respect the process. If you don't agree with something there is always a process for it
-Respect others property
-Be honest and hard working. $100 dollars earned by hard, honest work will stretch a lot farther than $1000 gained by being a liar or lazy ( metaphorically of course)
- I was privileged enough to be raised in a rural area.
- I was privileged enough to work as a teen in the hay fields making a lucrative .15 a bale for every one I loaded on a trailer
- In my rebellious teen years I did just enough school work to graduate
- I was allowed to make mistakes to teach me a lesson. Which included being caught with 2 beers at the age of 16 which resulted in 36 hours of community service and 2 years of active supervised probation
- I was privileged to have an older brother that was a drug addict and thief and was able to learn from his mistakes
- After graduating high school at 17 I was privileged enough to get $1500 from my parents as 'start up" money when I moved 800 miles away to a small town in Texas
- A year later when I had failed they provided me with $300 to make it back to La and gave me my room back that I now paid rent for
- I was literate enough to fill out job applications and get a job
- I was able to use previous life lessons to build a somewhat stable life and live within my means
- I married the love of my life then decided to have children
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by ChewyDante on 9/27/17 at 2:11 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Will Smith's kids have more privilege than most white people in this country will ever have. I don't see anybody bitching about that sort of privilege. Life isn't equal and it's not always some conspiracy of interests that make that so.
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by bayourougebengal on 9/27/17 at 2:18 pm to Eli Goldfinger
quote:
I was born into a 2-parent household.
Both of my parents worked to provide.
Both of my parents instilled in me a good work ethic.
I was taught morally wrong from right.
From an early age, I was both awarded and disciplined when appropriate.
Same
My first job, at 15, was walking thru both cotton and bean fields and hand pulling weeds. There were about a dozen of us from different races, all around the same age.
I graduated middle of my class from a public high school
I made the stupid decision to drop out of college and had to work twice as hard to get to the financially stable position I'm in.
At 20, I got my then girlfriend pregnant and stayed with her rather than let her raise a kid alone. She refused to give up on her education (thank God) and we got married a couple years later.
Still together and our oldest will be at or near the top of her graduating class next year.
quote:
And that stat cuts across races, does it not?
Yes. The wealth gap of white two parent families and black 2 parent families is virtually non existent. About the same percentage of black and white two parent families are below the poverty line.
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by narddogg81 on 9/27/17 at 4:17 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Priviledge is nothing more than your immediate ancestors being decent, responsible people who made good life choices. I'm proud of my parents and grandparents for how they have lived, and I'm going to try my best to give my son as much privilege as possible. I'm also going to teach him that he is to never feel shame or guilt for something that is positive or for anything that is not his fault.
This post was edited on 9/27 at 4:18 pm
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by Gatorbait2008 on 9/27/17 at 4:28 pm to Eli Goldfinger
My GF isn't attracted to black guys
I've only gone to jail twice during college
I grew up poor
I got tazed by a police officer for telling him to F""" off at a movie theater then walking away.
My boss is black
I've only gone to jail twice during college
I grew up poor
I got tazed by a police officer for telling him to F""" off at a movie theater then walking away.
My boss is black
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by bigman334 on 9/27/17 at 4:30 pm to Eli Goldfinger
i have a big dick...very thankful for that
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re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by Mindenfan on 9/27/17 at 4:39 pm to Eli Goldfinger
All those things plus a Navy career
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by FearlessFreep on 9/27/17 at 4:42 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I'm not privileged.
I'm the product of natural selection. Or, if you prefer, "favoured".
Darwin FTW.
I'm the product of natural selection. Or, if you prefer, "favoured".
Darwin FTW.
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by Scoop on 9/27/17 at 4:46 pm to Eli Goldfinger
My dad’s side: My grandad and my grandad’s brother were orphaned when my grandad was 12. They basically raised themselves in the woods. Grandad married my grandma when he was 36 or so and my grandma was 16. Had 8 kids and dirt poor. All 8 kids went on to do well either via college or good jobs. All 8 kids raised in poverty went on to middle to upper middle class. Dad volunteered for Vietnam and came back to drive a truck for a living and did so for 40 years. Now he plays golf most of the time.
Mom’s side: Grandad was a WW2 vet that came back and and married my grandma who was divorced with two kids. They were married for 50+ years and had my mom. My grandad ended up owing a gas station and he and my grandma were also rural postal carriers. They were grinders and good with money. Ended up leaving behind a small fortune but I was already grown when they passed. My mom has an associates degree from Northwestern.
I came up middle class because hard work was put in. I was put through college and went to work. I’ve been working my arse off for 23 years rarely taking days off or vacations.
There is no privilidge in my story. Only people that busted their arse.
Mom’s side: Grandad was a WW2 vet that came back and and married my grandma who was divorced with two kids. They were married for 50+ years and had my mom. My grandad ended up owing a gas station and he and my grandma were also rural postal carriers. They were grinders and good with money. Ended up leaving behind a small fortune but I was already grown when they passed. My mom has an associates degree from Northwestern.
I came up middle class because hard work was put in. I was put through college and went to work. I’ve been working my arse off for 23 years rarely taking days off or vacations.
There is no privilidge in my story. Only people that busted their arse.
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by CelticDog on 9/27/17 at 5:29 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Jew.
Impacted dating pool.
2 parents.
Dad pilot.
Mom stayed at home.
All college and grad school paid by parents, same as my siblings.
Impacted dating pool.
2 parents.
Dad pilot.
Mom stayed at home.
All college and grad school paid by parents, same as my siblings.
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by gthog61 on 9/27/17 at 5:33 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I group up in a small town that was probably 40-60 white-black at the time.
I was smarter tha all of them that were my age.*
*smarter than all the white folks my age too so may not be privilege
I was smarter tha all of them that were my age.*
*smarter than all the white folks my age too so may not be privilege
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by Bass Tiger on 9/27/17 at 6:05 pm to Eli Goldfinger
quote:
I was born into a 2-parent household.
Both of my parents worked to provide.
Both of my parents instilled in me a good work ethic.
I was taught morally wrong from right.
From an early age, I was both awarded and disciplined when appropriate.
When 15, my first taste of work privilege was landing a job sweeping a local grocer's parking lot by hand at 5:00 AM M,W,&F. (I still get mad when dirtbags throw their trash out in parking lots)
I graduated in the middle of my class from a public school.
I went to college (state college - half of it on scholarship).
I chose to pursue studies in a field which would lead to gainful employment, rather than what was most interesting to my 18-year-old self.
I had enough tenacity to stick it out for 5 years and earn a degree.
I landed a job before graduating college.
I have hauled my arse to work everyday for the past 15 years and have only taken 2 sick days in that time.
My family is comfortable.
Congratulations, you white privileged braggart!
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by Bass Tiger on 9/27/17 at 6:08 pm to CelticDog
quote:
Jew.
Impacted dating pool.
2 parents.
Dad pilot.
Mom stayed at home.
All college and grad school paid by parents, same as my siblings.
I thought you were Celtic? Either way you're full of "white self loathing Jewish guilt". Are you on any psychotropic drugs to deal with this well known affliction?
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by NC_Tigah on 9/27/17 at 6:17 pm to Eli Goldfinger
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This post was edited on 9/28 at 5:20 am
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by Wolfhound45 on 9/27/17 at 6:36 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Father left when I was an early teen.
Mediocre student in high school that barely graduated.
Joined the military out of high school and (finally) learned the value of hard work.
Used an ROTC scholarship to graduate from college.
Married over thirty years with two successful children (one with a masters, one who is in his junior year of college).
Thirty years of service (and counting) in the military.
White male.
If I can make it anyone can.
Mediocre student in high school that barely graduated.
Joined the military out of high school and (finally) learned the value of hard work.
Used an ROTC scholarship to graduate from college.
Married over thirty years with two successful children (one with a masters, one who is in his junior year of college).
Thirty years of service (and counting) in the military.
White male.
If I can make it anyone can.
re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)Posted by Mike da Tigah on 9/27/17 at 8:39 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I had two parents who loved me and are still together, who taught me right from wrong, taught me to give respect first if I expected respect to come my way, to live by a moral code, and made me work for what I wanted, but gave me what I needed in life, including a good education around good kids who also had two parent households and who cared for their kids as well. Most of all though, even though I may have deviated at times in my youth, their living examples stuck with me like glue so that I knew what was right and wrong, and it always lit my way back to my good senses.
I grew up in a time where saying sir and ma'am wasn't an option, but mandatory.
I grew up where being punished to stay in your room was the worst kind of punishment because everyone was outside playing, and so because there was nothing to do inside, we developed social skills in how to get along with others, and paid dividends for us later in life.
I grew up when parents would kick you out the house in the morning to play, but you better be home before the street lights came on or that's your arse.
I grew up in a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone, and you couldn't get away with much or someone would call your mom and tell on you for being somewhere you shouldn't be, or doing something you shouldn't be doing.
We'd get dropped off at the skating rink in the morning and picked up in the late afternoon, and nobody would give it a second thought.
I'm not gonna lie. I had a really good childhood. I am very blessed, and I know there aren't a lot, especially today, who have it as good as I and we did back then. They may have more stuff and money, but not the other intangibles we enjoyed. In that sense, we were filthy rich.
I grew up in a time where saying sir and ma'am wasn't an option, but mandatory.
I grew up where being punished to stay in your room was the worst kind of punishment because everyone was outside playing, and so because there was nothing to do inside, we developed social skills in how to get along with others, and paid dividends for us later in life.
I grew up when parents would kick you out the house in the morning to play, but you better be home before the street lights came on or that's your arse.
I grew up in a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone, and you couldn't get away with much or someone would call your mom and tell on you for being somewhere you shouldn't be, or doing something you shouldn't be doing.
We'd get dropped off at the skating rink in the morning and picked up in the late afternoon, and nobody would give it a second thought.
I'm not gonna lie. I had a really good childhood. I am very blessed, and I know there aren't a lot, especially today, who have it as good as I and we did back then. They may have more stuff and money, but not the other intangibles we enjoyed. In that sense, we were filthy rich.
This post was edited on 9/27 at 8:43 pm
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