re: How to talk to your kids about White Privilege - ABC

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The Wal Mart less than a mile from my house proves this statement false. Why? Because we actually LIVE in a diverse area.

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Progs see the world in extremes, ie the backpack analogy.

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I didn’t get into my first choice college despite all AP classes, valedictorian, soccer varsity captain, volunteering at the hospital, excellent SAT, etc etc etc. Black girl in my class, who was smart but objectively had a worse application than mine, whose mom was a retired lawyer, got in AND got a full ride. Boy did that experience open my eyes to how the world really works.

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I hadn't applied to Tulane. I wanted to go to LSU, but my high school screwed my out of the Valedictorian by letting him drop the class against policy. Had Tulane been my school that would have cost me their top scholarship available to me.

I tell my kids to embrace being white and to love every minute of it. Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of.

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I'm not sure about this. There are certainly cases where being 'average' is advantageous but they aren't universal and thus cannot be inherent. Had you said "there can be advantages to looking like the majority of the population" I would be inclined to agree with you.

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There are so many different ways one can cast a majority vs. minority dichotomy that the entire notion of privilege really seems like a dramatic oversimplification of how social interactions really work.

If one experiences an advantage from being in the majority, this advantage wouldn't necessarily stop at race. It would go into things like how you dress, how you talk, what is your sexual orientation, what is your religion, do you have visible tattoos, all the way down to the most mundane details. And if we all experience a series of advantages/disadvantages based on how well we align with a majority for a single trait, of what value is isolating individual advantages and focusing solely on them?

Which factors matter for being in the majority and which ones don't? The single variable analyses that these "privilege" conversations promote don't seem particularly convincing because the vast majority of people simply don't view their social interactions through these single-variable lenses.

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There is an inherent advantage to looking like the majority of the population.

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That's confusing, because in sales, ABC means always be closing

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Progs see the world in extremes, ie the backpack analogy.

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The backpack analogy is pathetic. Socioeconomic status is far more impactful, but I still contend that, given two otherwise equal individuals, the one who looks like the majority of clients/people will be more successful.

That shouldn't be remotely controversial either. 93% of white people in the US marry someone who is white, yet people act like race is irrelevant. 81% of black marriages are to other black people. This shite is human nature, yet people will still argue against it. It's ignorant.

Yea more times than I can remember but don't try and downplay the surroundings in the picture.

I’m very proud of the privilege that I was born to two married parents who worked very hard, paid way too much in taxes, and instilled the value of hard work and education all while imparting discipline, morals, and values in my life.