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Thoughts Regarding 'White Privilge'

It's a load of crap. [I never was one to beat around the bush.]

It's yet another trick the left is playing on minorities. Look, even if you they could convince white people of this new myth, does that improve the station of minorities?

We ALL have the privilege of life. What we do with it is all about the individual. You can choose to apply yourself in school, you can choose to take part in extra curricular activities, you can choose to listen to your parents, follow the rules of the house, find a job that interests you, be the best the employer has ever had, get promoted, marry and THEN have children, work hard to keep the family intact and succeed.

THOSE things result in happiness and success. Don't do those things and life will be more difficult for you - what ever your skin color might be.

I might as well bring up that the left has had major involvement in tripping up the steps to success for minorities - for decades.

Minority families are far more likely to be fatherless for example. I know marriage itself is considered more disposable than ever, but those that get caught in the web of government assistance are forced to get rid of Dad and nothing short of a miracle ever gets them out from under the governments rules that won't let 'em out.

Taking whites down a notch won't do a thing to improve your own life. It's an old trick played by losers everywhere and it never works. Losers remain losers.

So, succeed the old fashioned way, that has worked time and time again for thousands of years - work hard, play it straight, be honorable and gather your own privilege as you go.

Good luck!
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I agree, to a point. I think the problem is that these things are often easier said than done. For example, you say you can choose to apply yourself in school and that's absolutely true, but the problem is that kids who grow up in an impoverished area often have terrible public schools that don't have extracurricular options; even applying oneself in a school like that doesn't amount to much when colleges see you performed poorly on the SAT/ACT that you were not prepared for due to your school's and your parents' lack of resources. There will always be the exception who rises out of the cycle, but the cycle is difficult to break out of when the odds are stacked against you. I've seen first hand that kids start out the same: white kids, black kids, Hispanic kids, they're all just kids, they behave the same, they do just as well in school as each other. Things start diverging as they get older. The ones in the better neighborhood take advantage of the better opportunities afforded to them, their parents being able to spend time with them and pay for after-school programs and the consequently do well. The ones in the worse neighborhoods see their older siblings drop out, they see their schools close due to lack of funding, they don't get the support they need at home and they get dangerously close to being sucked into the cycle of poverty, welfare, and lack of social mobility. Yes, a lot of what happens to you is on you, but a lot of it is due to your lot in life. The question is how to improve that lot so that one kid doesn't have to overcome 100 obstacles to succeed while the other only has to overcome 5.

These privileges I'm speaking of are not about race per se, they're more about class. It's just that in this country, certain races belong overwhelmingly to certain classes.
Budwick · 70-79, M
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grow up in an impoverished area often have terrible public schools
While not universally true, most of those schools you talk about are in democrat governed cities. Change that.

they don't get the support they need at home

I think I mentioned that too! Crappy family life does not support success. Wasting time blaming successful people for your problem is another key to failure.

a lot of it is due to your lot in life. The question is how to improve that lot
My ancestors had the same problem. They started with nothing, worked their asses off to ensure their children had a better life - rinse and repeat.