Can Someone Please Explain to me What White Privilege is?

Same here, I spent the good part of my life on the smart end of a muck stick! And every Black guy to hire on never lasted a week, AND THERE WERE MANY The impression they left me with is, they didn't believe they should have to climb the ladder like others but felt they were entitles to pick and choose what they felt they should do!

 

You already provided an example, no need to repeat yourself.

 

Which is why underprivileged whites should receive just as much help as underprivileged blacks. Right now, the assumption being made seems to be that all blacks are underprivileged, but in reality some black families themselves owned slaves, whereas a majority of whites never did.

 

Ignorance masquerading as an argument is still ignorance.

 

It must really suck being self conscious about the color of your skin because of some invisible myth.

 

Those Chinese (or Indian, or Korean, or Vietnamese) parents who arrived in America barely even speaking the language effectively, much less having the 'privilege' of 12 years of American schooling, still managed to make sure their kids escaped poverty within a single generation.

It's ALWAYS a choice.

 

My Asian neighbour's PARENTS grew up in a grass hut in a rice paddy and never went to school. My neighbour is a doctor. Process that.

Are you embarrassed yet?

 

What in frigging heck does that have to do with it? What about those who lived under Pol Pot, spent years on the run trying to escape torture and death, then arrived in the west as penniless refugees without benefit of a single day of school? These people experienced far far worse than 'racial discrimination', yet they determined their kids would not. They subsequently spent every ounce of their available energies on making sure their kids were educated. Yes, even people who had no education themselves ... they understood that education was the key and did whatever they had to do.

 

Jim Crow was on New York, California and in Chicago? I didn't realize that all blacks live in the Jim Crow South. Your complete ignorance and illiteracy on this subject is duly noted. Get out of here and let the adults with actual educations talk.

 

It was not nation wide.

Come back when you have a less ignorant argument

 

No idea how Jim Crow laws would be "why".... what you said....

Underprivileged whites should definitely receive more help in College education than they currently receive.. But this is not "why"

 

WHITE PRIVILEGE= not being arrested and detained by Sheriff Arpaio, simply because of your skin color.

 

Why are you talking about Chinese and Korean and... all those? What does that have to do with a sector of our population that was affected because of laws passed in our country? It's just a Red Herring.

Maybe they also should receive certain privileges. If you can prove that our laws impeded their progress, then you can make a case. But this thread is about "White privilege" which is a result mainly (though not exclusively) of Jim Crow era laws.

 

Uh huh

Guilt-ridden white liberals are the ones who seem to think black people are inferior

I think they are not inferior but do hold themselves bad by making bad personal decisions

 

You are completely clueless as to what this discussion is about, aren't you?

 

Pol Pot? Oh My God! What does Pol Pot have to do with white privilege in the United States?

You're not just in a different conversation. You're in a different galaxy.

 

white privilege= the luxury of not knowing there is actual racial discrimination in the USA

 

Guilt?

What would be more appropriate is to be guilt-ridden over the broad strokes you seem to be painting large swaths of people with.

Where do so many conservatives get off thinking they can judge whole groups of people based almost completely on urban myths and right-wing paranoia? That's not to deny that some people are definitely walking stereotypes, but to base your judgements on the complexity of human behaviour and society on such flimsy and highly biased prejudices is quite an exercise in ignorance. Anecdotal evidence is hardly a comprehensive gauge. Unless you work with the public on a daily basis dealing with the very issues that create poverty, one should defer to the ones who do, or whose work is to find answers.

 

Nonsense. See previous posts about uneducated migrants producing doctors and lawyers.

 

I don't even think it's that. It's the choice made to stay in poverty.

I know an older Asian woman who raised her kids alone (the father took off when the kids were babies), and with zero money. One of her kids is a surgeon, the other is a dentist. She may have been alone and poor, but she was determined that her kids wouldn't suffer the same fate.

 

Try telling that to the dark skinned Indians running your major tech corps.

 

An often overlooked point.

I would much rather know that I had the power to change things. I guess that's because I'm okay with the hard work that change demands. Not everyone is okay with it.

 

You display the most pathetic one-dimensional thinking I've seen in a long time.

You seem to think that the only thing that created a white privilege was the fact that Jim Crow laws didn't apply to whites. That is a simple-minded point of view. First of all, Jim Crow laws in the south did affect blacks in the North. The large majority of the black population in the north immigrated from the South. Where they lacked the education opportunities and the same privilege that whites had. And I have already explained how that carries from generation to generation.. Second, believe it or not there was segregation in the north during the Jim Crow era! Chicago had segregated schools. Probably other cities did also. I don't care to look it up because it's not that relevant.

Now, blacks in the north had a better chance at obtaining a College education. So what? How does that affect anything I have said? The white privilege still exists. Even in the north it was immensely more difficult for blacks, because they didn't have that privilege. Most blacks who managed to go to College were in the North. But that's irrelevant! Because I'm talking about blacks who did not have that opportunity thanks to segregation, racism and, yes, also very prominently (though not exclusively) because of Jim Crow laws.

 

There is no white privilege in 2017. If there was, you would not now have dark skinned Indians running your multinational tech corps, and Asians dominating your Ivy League honour rolls, and POC earning more than whites.

Trawling the past for injury and insult to justify present laziness and apathy. That's what you're doing. Every person of colour who arrived in the west as a poor refugee has suffered insult and injury of some sort .. but they don't all give up (because they can, in the west). They recognise that in 21stC America (or wherever), ANYONE can make good. They don't let the past decide their future. They see the real 'privilege' (free education, safety, healthcare, etc) and make it work for them.

 

And also the luxury to not care

I agree more than 100% (if that were possible)