Saying racism is over is the new saying you have 'a black friend'

[Karee 4,191]

people who insist that the playing field is now even for whites and blacks, need to take a class in economic sociology.

People that blame racism anytime something doesn't go their way should take a class as well. It's probably a different class than economic sociology though.

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he's white.

and the advantage he has is?

[Karee 4,191]

the only talk i hear of the verdict is on vj.

You must not have a TV or look at news sites on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCZjw2FXPE

Frack, so i can embed youtube with my iphone but not google chrome. I got it.

I got ya.

[decocker 7,198]

and the advantage he has is?

it's an advantage.

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it's an advantage.

we're waiting on the list of advantages his skin tone affords him.

[decocker 7,198]

People that blame racism anytime something doesn't go their way should take a class as well. It's probably a different class than economic sociology though.

people with no sense of personal responsibility exist in all colors.

[Karee 4,191]

people with no sense of personal responsibility exist in all colors.

Where do I sign up?

[decocker 7,198]

we're waiting on the list of advantages his skin tone affords him.

shall i make you a list of advantages that coincide with male privilege as well?

Where do I sign up?

i dunno. i've often wanted to lose my sense of personal responsibility.

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shall i make you a list of advantages that coincide with male privilege as well?

do something that backs up your moronic statement.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCZjw2FXPE

Frack, so i can embed youtube with my iphone but not google chrome. I got it.

You have to use tags. Use the BBCode button, and look for either the youtube, or the media tags.

[GandD 5,966]

Why does everyone always think there's one answer. Blacks do not have their socio-economic position based solely on the color of their skin. I grant that racism plays its role today for sure but you're kidding yourself to explain the entire situation with this one reason.

[Karee 4,191]

You have to use tags. Use the BBCode button, and look for either the youtube, or the media tags.

Don't have to do any of that with FIrefox. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.

[decocker 7,198]

do something that backs up your moronic statement.

"Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. As we in Women’s Studies work to

reveal male privilege and ask men to give up some of their power, so one who writes about having white

privilege must ask, “ Having described it what will I do to lessen or end it?”

After I realized the extent to which men work from a base of unacknowledged privilege, I

understood that much of their oppressiveness was unconscious. Then I remembered the frequent charges

from women of color that white women whom they encounter are oppressive. I began to understand why

we are justly seen as oppressive, even when we don’t see ourselves that way. I began to count the ways

in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about its existence.

My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged

person or as a participant in a damaged culture. I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral

state depended on her individual moral will. My schooling followed the pattern my colleague Elizabeth

Minnich has pointed out: whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and

average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work which will allow

“them“ to be more like “us.”

I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white

privilege on my life. I have chosen those conditions which I think in my case attach somewhat more to

skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographical location, though of course all

these other factors are intricately intertwined. As far as I can see, my African American co-workers,

friends and acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact in this particular time, place

and line of work cannot count on most of these conditions.

1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area, which I can

afford and in which I would want to live.

3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.

4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.

5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely

represented.

6. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my

color made it what it is.

7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their

race.

8. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.

9. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket

and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone

who can cut my hair.

10. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the

appearance of my financial reliability.

11. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.

12. I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute

these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.

13. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.

14. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.

15. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.

16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world’s

majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.

17. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being

seen as a cultural outsider.

18. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge,” I will be facing a person of my race.

19. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled

out because of my race.

20. I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children’s

magazines featuring people of my race.

21. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than

isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared.

22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having coworkers on the job suspect that

I got it because of race.

23. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be

mistreated in the place I have chosen.

24. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help my race will not work against me.

25. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it

has racial overtones.

26. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color and have them more or less match my skin.

I repeatedly forgot each of the realizations on this list until I wrote it down. For me white

privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in

facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country;

one’s life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.

In unpacking this invisible backpack of white privilege, I have listed conditions of daily

experience which I once took for granted. Nor did I think of any of these perquisites as bad for the

holder. I now think that we need a more finely differentiated taxonomy of privilege, for some these

varieties are only what one would want for everyone in a just society, and others give license to be

ignorant, oblivious, arrogant and destructive.

I see a pattern running through the matrix of white privilege, a pattern of assumptions which were

passed on to me as a white person. There was one main piece of cultural turf; it was my own turf, and I

was among those who could control the turf. My skin color was an asset for any move I was educated to

want to make. I could think of myself as belonging in major ways, and of making social systems work for

me. I could freely disparage, fear, neglect, or be oblivious to anything outside of the dominant cultural

forms. Being of the main culture, I could also criticize it fairly freely.

http://www.nymbp.org/reference/WhitePrivilege.pdf

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Don't have to do any of that with FIrefox. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Do you just drop in the youtube video? That's cool.

[decocker 7,198]

Blacks do not have their socio-economic position based solely on the color of their skin.

of course they don't. not all black people are poor.

do something that backs up your moronic statement.

now back up your moronic siggy.