Open Letter to the 3 White Students Who Filed a Discrimination Complaint Against Their Black Teacher

[justanaverageguy]

23. My two cent (and that might be all it's worth!!)

I'm a white male, let's get that out of the way because it matters to some.

I don't disagree that white privilege exist, of course it does. But that doesn't mean that my life is automatically just a walk in the park. I still have to get out there and bust my ass as hard as I can to get ahead. I work with enough non-white people in my industry to know that success is available for them as well. Do they have an extra burden to carry? Quite probably yes. Beside acknowledge that white privilege exist what is it exactly that you want me as a white male to do about it?

While I would have never even considered filing any sort of formal complaint, there were times when I was in college when the professor was going about this or that social injustice (commonly centered on race) that I would feel some frustration because it had no apparent association to the subject matter of the class. It wasn't that I felt uncomfortable discussing the topic, it had more to do with the fact that I knew I was ultimately going to be tested on the subject matter of the course, not whatever cause the professor was championing that particular day.