re: Is white privilege a real thing?

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quote: Get over it, move on, and start working for improving your situation now instead of expecting reparations from the past.

White privilege at its finest.

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Black cry babying at its finest

The choice to commit crimes is merely up to the individual. Te question would then be do blacks commit more crimes simply due to their skin color, or are their other factors in play?

There are 3 priveleges:
Wealth
Fame
2 Parent household

The most important indicator of the first one is the last one.

What causes crime? Generally, crime is committed by poor people. What causes poverty? Is it simply a lack of money? A lack of education?

Well, typically, poverty and a lack of education in this country correlates greatly with not being raised by two parents living in the same household. This indicator transends race, though a greater percentage of African Americans are raised in single parent households, it is equally as predictive for white households.

Single larent households are more poor, less educated, and commit more crimes.

The causes of single parent households are entitlement programs which allow women with no skills to survive without a husband and actually pay them more for each child they have out of wedlock, and the war on drugs which lock massive numbers of men in prison and create a huge black market ruled by violence.

In the end, most things attributed to "white privelege" are really the negative consequences of our federal government's broken entitlement system, broken educational system, and failed wars on drugs and poverty.

What breaks the education system, though? It is broken by massive populations of kids who simply don't care. Those kids have parents who don't care, generally only one. Why don't their parents care? The parents are living off of entitlements. Entitlements allow them to live without working. If you don't need a job to support yourself, you don't need to go to college. If you don't need to go to college or get a job, you don't need to study hard in school. However, you are still required to show up. Our schools are then filled with people who don't value education because it creates no value for them.

The entire endemic of crime, poverty, and police brutality as well as the loss of our rights, the destruction of our cities, and so many other issues we face daily all trace back to the war on drugs and the war on poverty.

Legalize drugs and end federal entitlement programs and these kinds of things won't hallen any more.

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I think anyone who can be reasonably objective will admit there's not necessarily a white privilege, but there is a definite black misfortune. All of the people answering no: if you could change your skin color to black right now, would you? I certainly wouldn't.

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That stupid. No black people would change to white either. Majority of people are proud of their heritage.

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I think he phrased it incorrectly.

If you're white, don't say whether you'd trade for being black, but would you trade to be treated (?) like a black person comparable to your social or economic status? If not, why? If so, do you not think you'd be treated any differently?

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shel311 - I changed one word in your quote (see the question mark above) which I think is what you meant. If not, please pardon.

Personally, it's hard for me to even conceive of what you're asking. I'm content being who God created me to be - skin color and all even though there are people of most races of whom I admire their talents.

OTOH, if (I thought) God created me Asian, black, etc I wouldn't want to be white.

As I understand "white privilege" it pertains to being giving certain breaks, leniency, judgments, acceptance strictly on the color of one's skin. I don't think such privilege exists.

What I think exists is what I can call 'black dis-privilege." People of other races will look upon blacks with (for lack of a better word) suspicion not because of their skin color but because of the community/culture so readily associated with blacks.

Blacks, more so than any other ethnic group, have segregated themselves. There are historic black colleges, the congressional black caucus, black Miss America, black spring break, black history month,they are the progenitors (as far as I know) of hyphen-Americans. To most's knowledge, there are no historic Asian colleges and so forth.

I know, these were created (rightly so) because blacks were disenfranchised and discriminated against.

IMO, they went in one-side of of an inversion cone and never came out the other unlike any other ethnic group.

What does that have to do with you?

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That stupid. No black people would change to white either. Majority of people are proud of their heritage.

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What about if you HAD to change your race? In what order would black be chosen? I'd certainly much rather be Latino or Asian in America.

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What about if you HAD to change your race? In what order would black be chosen? I'd certainly much rather be Latino or Asian in America.

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We dont get to pick our race. Its a dumb argument. We define ourselves by our ethics and morals, not our color. If your only defining factor in your life is your color you have failed.

Ok let's agree to disagree

No more name calling, I apologize for that..

You keep speaking about reparations, and at first I was just fricking with you, but now I'm serious... What would you consider to be a fair payback? A certain dollar amount? Does it go to ALL African Americans? I'm interested in seeing your plan of action if that were to come to fruition

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It's not a dumb argument. You're just side stepping the question because you realize it would expose your preconceptions about what it is to be black. I never said anything about race being a defining factor. If it was far from such a thing, you would have no problem answering that you wouldn't mind being black as it wouldn't be a big deal. However, we can see that's certainly not what happened here.

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No its absolutely stupid. If i was trying to prove some point i would just say black. Its just a dumb scenario you are proposing. Do i get to pick other shite like my height, athletic ability, if my parents are rich, etc? Or am i just picking some random shade of color for my skin?

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White privilege at its finest.

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You mean keeping it real at its finest.

Self-professed leaders of BLM, Rev Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the NAACP (in its modern form) are all making money off keeping black people stupid and naive to the plights that they should be addressing.

Helping single mothers in their communities raise their children to be better men and women, reducing substance abuse and crime, and improving their community schools with community support should be their focus long before white cops shooting black men/women.

But then they'd lose their cash cow.