The issue I have with this whole “privilege” thing going around lately.

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In this video, we have a guy trying to demonstrate to kids what “privilege” means. He begins by offering up money for the winner of this race, which in turn represents life. He tells the kids:

Take two steps forward if your parents are still married

Take two steps forward if you grew up with a father figure in your home

Take two steps forward if you had access to a private education

Take two steps forward if you had access to a free tutor growing up

Take two steps forward if you’ve never had to worry about your cell phone being shut off

Take two steps forward if you’ve never had to help mom or dad with the bills

Take two steps forward if it wasn’t for your athletic ability you don’t have to pay for college

Take two steps forward if you’ve never worried about where your next meal was going to come from



He then gets them to race, and of course the blacks in the back were last to finish, and he made sure to make a point of that by saying if it were an even race, the blacks would smoke the white kids.






The issue I have is that it’s called “privilege” in the first place rather than “blessed” and there is a difference in that privileged tends to convey that the having two parents, a father figure, and economic blessing in the most wealthy and economically blessed nations in the history of mankind is a privilege rather than a blessing, because the norm is now having a screwed up home life and poor upbringing. The norm is making poor life decisions, and those who had good parents and a happy home life should be ashamed.

That’s the message I’m getting, and rather than being grateful for what you have, which I would say is very important for everyone to be fully”woke” to, as they like to say, It is almost demonizing being blessed.

Instead, the message to society should be to illustrate WHY it’s important for there to be a nuclear family with two parents who are married, a positive father figure in the home, taking advantage of the many opportunities we all have in receiving an education that others have already paid for, and taking advantage of all the many job opportunities available to anyone with the desire to take advantage of and better yourself and your family. But that isn’t the message being conveyed. It’s shaming of people who’s parents actually DID make wise life decisions, and pittying those who didn’t, and that does absolutely NOTHING to fix the problems plaguing the black communities, and many in the white community too these days. It simply glosses over the real life lessons we should be getting, and demonizes those who are blessed to grow up in a normal functioning family in America.