re: Spurs coach Gregg Popovich calls U.S. 'embarrassment to the world,' talks white privilege

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i knew you'd come back

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Let me guess. This is somehow further proof of you not being an ignorant troll, right?

This post is bad and you should feel bad for making it.

frick him. I haven't watched the NBA in the 21sr century, and won't.

I have never understood protesting the national anthem. If you don't like America, move. There's plenty of land to buy up in Canada. Yes, our president is an idiot but that doesn't make it right to disgrace our flag, the military and our freedom.

The NBA is still around? I haven't watched that garbage in years

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Well, because it's uncomfortable and there has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change. Whether it's the LGBT movement or women's suffrage, it doesn't matter. People have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people, because we're comfortable. We still have no clue of what being born white means...It's hard to sit down and decide, yes, it's like you are at the 50-meter mark in a 100-meter dash. You've got that kind of a lead. Yes, because you were born white, you have advantages that are systemically, culturally, psychologically, there, and they have been built up and cemented for hundreds of years. but many people can't look at it. It's too difficult... People want to hold their position. They want the status quo. People don't want to give that up. And until it is given up, it's not going to be fixed."

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I'm a pretty big proponent of white privilege, but Pops makes it sound like something of which you should be ashamed. That's not the way it works.

The concept of privilege is what losers lean on to justify their failures in life.

I've never known a person of color to work as hard as I do and not succeed in life.

I'm going to take the approach that if somebody can point to tangible acts of racism that has occurred that sets them back in life, I will join them in acknowledging that a person has wronged them.

Vague generalities like "institutional racism" are things that offer nothing we can really comment on or offer solutions to. I don't think there is some ethereal institution imposing a system of racism upon us. I do think racists exist. So call the racists out if they unfairly hamper someone for something as mundane as the pigmentation of their skin, but to say an entire group of people start out ahead in life is ignorant. There are some poor arse white families that would love to hear how good they have it because everything must come so easy to them.

Specific instances of prejudice are what sparks meaningful dialogues and provides instances in which we can right wrongs.

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There are some poor arse white families that would love to hear how good they have because everything must come so easy to them.

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White privilege isn't about having it easy, it's about having it easier. It's not about racism either. It's about the simple fact that being white means you're part of the majority race in this country. That's a privilege, but not one for which you or I need to apologize. It's just nature.