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In reply to the discussion: Why I don't like the term "white privilege" [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)OP? That's rich.
So now, the issue is how people I identify as middle class, huh? I have a feeling that before this thread is over you'll have an issue with how people identify as people.
And yes, please do tell me how I am "attempting to whitewash black disadvantage" by not bolstering your tragically ignorant and borderline racist identifier that Barack Obama didn't have a "traditional" African American upbringing, which, judging by your insistence that economics trumps all, means that he wasn't throwing down 40s in the ghetto? Please illuminate me.
And when you and the 27 imbeciles that rec'd this tripe begin to understand the history of this country and begin to understand that race is the SINGLE GREATEST IDENTIFIER of access in American culture and always has been, then perhaps we will no longer have to suffer through OPs like this one.
Because as long as those of us in the Real World understand that race determines whether or not you get pulled over, regardless of whether you've committed a crime or not, that even massively educated blacks still face discrimination, that even world class black academics are still the victims of racism, that even middle class and even EXTREMELY wealthy blacks still face discrimination, even in ways that middle class whites don't, and as long as white people in 2014 believe that they experience racism more than blacks, then conversations about white privilege and the contortions people will go through to deny its existence will continue.