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Originally posted by Aeons
Originally posted by EMPIRE
Originally posted by Aeons
Has it occured to you that "white" isn't some big conglomerate culture? So "privilege" wasn't ever exactly evenly spread?
No. Everyone should be judged not by the actions of others of the same religion, culture, gender, creed.....
Except if you're white. THEN you're all the same. You are all nothing but the worst of you.
Good stuff.
Has it ever occured to you that "white" is often looked on as a big conglomerate culture and that "priveilege" extends outside of this country?
Tim Wise, he is your friend. Good stuff for sure!
Only it isn't. The people you think of as white and privileged often paid for that "privilege" in total cultural annihilation against their will. But hey, I guess that's a Privilege.
White privilege is easy to get rid of.
Originally posted by FritosBBQTwist
Slavery?
It is everyones fault.
The blacks for selling their own racial group, and then the whites for buying them up.
Originally posted by jeasahtheseer
reply to post by seagull
Yeah I don't really get the white priveledge thing either. I'm assuming he means whites get better jobs... But me personally, I'm black and am a skilled computer programmer and website builder and work in general IT. I got my job over many other people, black and white. I got the job because all of us applicant were tested and I did better on the test than anyone else. Thats why I was hired.
I have white buddies and they live the same as me, I don't see them getting anymore opportunities than me. I also know many poor white people as well as black people and the reason they are poor is because they are lazy and choose to live off the government.
[edit on 19-8-2009 by jeasahtheseer]
Originally posted by symmetricAvenger
reply to post by EMPIRE
no hes right.. its about mentality..
its about HUMANS selling and BUYING humans its called SLAVE TRADE
you are a slave now... ITS CALLED MONEY but you go along with it because you can not understand being something els
or using another way of BEING get me? MONEY is based on? PROFIT
everyone SCREWS everyone ... why?
because people are DUMB
Originally posted by Aeons
reply to post by EMPIRE
It isn't "white privilege." It is merely that they happen to be the largest group in the area. Being hated, means people are more likely to band together to protect themselves.
That isn't going to stop by promoting hate.
Why would ANYONE give away privileges? That is stupid. No one is going to do that.
Pulling people down is just dumb. Pulling everyone up, well that's a whole other thing now isn't it?
And people in these nations damn well have done more than ANY other culture or nation in all of history to correct this situation. They have voted in great numbers over and over people who will correct it. They've supported social programs to undo it. They've supported financially and ideologically systems to educate, house, and bring human rights to people of any type.
The people you are talking about, as a whole, have done more to try and alleviate this situation than anyone else anywhere on the planet has ever done. That is far from nothing.
Originally posted by FreeSpeaker
reply to post by STFUPPERCUTTER
I'll probably get flammed for saying this but oh well. Slavery, in the long run, has had a postive effect for blacks. The slaves decendents now live in one of the greatest nations in the world and have oppertunities those who were left in africa will never have. Hard price to pay, but then again those alive today did not pay it themselves, their ancestors did.