If you don't believe in (recognize) white privilege why the fuck are you on a Democratic Forum?

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6. Good question

Because it's not possible to be a liberal or progressive and not understand (or accept) this concept. It's the reality that underlies Brown v. Board of Education and all the civil rights legislation and efforts at affirmative action we fought for for so long. And there are so many fights left to go ... the resolutions of which depend on our understanding the nature of white privilege and its corollary, the enduring disadvantages that accrue to being black in this country.

And as you noted, this isn't because everyone who is rejecting the idea of white privilege here is a libertarian or Republican troll. I believe it's because there are a goodly number of folks here who truly believe they are liberal or progressive, but who do not understand that concept at all. I've seen people here define liberalism as the fight for "individual freedoms"--and nothing, of course, could be farther from the ideals of liberalism, which is concerned with collective rights and the common good. But hey, as long as you've got some weed and a gun ... and profess that we should just stay out of problems in other countries ... you can call yourself a liberal. It makes me more than a little depressed sometimes.