re: Get it off your chest...list your life advantages (privilege)

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.

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.

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And that stat cuts across races, does it not?

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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.

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'm not privileged.

I'm the product of natural selection. Or, if you prefer, "favoured".



Darwin FTW.

Jew.
Impacted dating pool.
2 parents.
Dad pilot.
Mom stayed at home.

All college and grad school paid by parents, same as my siblings.

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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.

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Congratulations, you white privileged braggart!

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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.