Can Someone Please Explain to me What White Privilege is?

Why am I not surprised you found this informative and maybe even a little educational. Of course at the end of the day it's just a very wealth black Comedian/Actor doing a piece for SNL about how his fellow Blacks haven't the same opportunity to be as wealthy as he and other WHITES had Then again this might have been a skit focused more on irony or hypocrisy too *shrugs*

Eddie Murphy, net worth $85 Million! Yup, life is so unfair for poor lil Eddy

 

I'm referring to demands for reparations sometimes suggested as a way to compensate for White Privilege. I don't mean you specially, if that was what you were thinking.

 

And that statement right there is a perfect example of White Privilege on steroids.

 

Do I really have to explain this? They weren't under US jurisdiction. Blacks were in US jurisdiction in the Jim Crow era.

Amazing that somebody needs this explained to them!

 

Only you brought that up. No one has brought that up, and it certainly has absolutely no connection with the term White Privilege. Those are completely separate issues, but does serve yet as another perfect example of the insensitivity of white privilege and the assumptions about race.

 

The original term is Sour Grapes!

 

What kind of argument is that? Of course! Jim Crow laws were localized in the areas where there was a black population. Who gives a f.... cares if they didn't have them in Montana?

 

You mean, like Asians, who have a lower divorce and single-parenthood rate than knuckle-dragging, wife-beating conservatives?

 

You can address whatever you want. But it doesn't seem to me that just saying that they "should not be suffering the effects" eliminates the fact that they are suffering it.

 

I'm white. I got no privileges.
So much for your silly argument

 

Then it ain't white priveledge if all whites don't enjoy it

 

Wow! What an extremely ignorant statement.

The very existence of this book and its popularity is testament to how wrong you are to think Jim Crow was not nationwide.

The Negro Motorist Green Book 1949 Edition

 

I'm enjoying white privilege on vacation right now. I can't imagine life without it.

 

Then you don't understand the point. Whether it's board games or ... any other way in which parents teach children the importance of an education, is irrelevant. Properly educated parents prepare their children for the education they need to get better opportunities, better jobs, better income.. Many improperly educated parents see ending high school as the end-all of Education. And this carries from generation to generation.

Also, you seem to regard 1954 as a year more relevant to this discussion than it actually is. As if a Supreme Court vote instantly made people more educated, and everything else irrelevant.

 

No explain how a group of people with no money and who didn't even know the native language managed to outperform everyone and yet blacks born in this country continue decade after decade to lag behind everyone else.

Blacks that come from Africa and the Caribbean also outperform native born Americans including whites so no it isn't in fact about skin color. What it is about is dysfunction in the black community. You cannot and you never will have good outcomes from a community that has 7 out of 10 babies born to a single mom with no father in site. Black parents by and large suck, they are awful at parenting in part because they themselves were raised in broken homes.

 

Just because you were privileged does not mean that all whites were. There are many whites just as underprivileged as many blacks, and they should be helped equally, if there is helping to be done.

What you have described is actually a class difference, not a racial one.

 

My argument has nothing to do with your personal limitations.

Maybe if you read my message you wouldn't be making a fool of yourself.

 

Really?

Whether guilt-ridden white liberals believe it or not I have met black people who are just as intelligent and personally responsible as whites or Asians or Indians

If America is not holding them back then anyone can make it if they make smart choices in their lives

 

Sure it is. Americans have the privilege of being allowed to live in the United States. The privilege doesn't disappear for Americans if your family had decided to move to Senegal.

 

Sure. It's called Jim Crow Laws. Look them up.

I see. So lack of opportunity for blacks during the Jim Crow era is not about skin color, but single mothers babies are.

You are possibly one of the most out of touch people I have seen on these forums so far.

 

Right! It only means that blacks weren't.

And that's the issue.

 

White privilege is the privilege of not having someone else to blame for your own failures.

How is this privilege? I am glad you asked. The privilege is seeing your own failures thru the lens of reality. That way you can take responsibility for your own life and take action to better yourself. There is hope in that.

When you see your failures as a result of being "held down" by some imaginary racist boogeyman, what can you do about that? There is no hope in that.

 

Self defeating and not an argument.

His statement still stands.

 

They did not have them in over half the country and in many places where blacks lived.

You are simply historically wrong Jim crow can no longer be blamed.

 

It's true of the upper tier whites, but blacks have an upper tier too, which probably operates similarly.