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

[freshwest]

294. And that's disturbing because their entire educational, employment, financial and social life...

It all came from that privilege of birth.

I knew I had white privilege as a child and did not revel in it as if I deserved it. I was taught nothing comes without earning it, and wanted nothing to do with any thing given me by a social birthright. I'll explain why.

My American ancestors had land granted by the king of England over 4 centuries ago. The next king found fault with those of different religion and took it back. The next came arrived and returned it. My ancestral branch did not want to play that game with them again. Needless to say, the land was not the king's to give or take, according to the ideals founding the USA.

Anything given unjustly cannot be depended upon, all you can count on is what you create inside yourself. Things will balance out. In both views there is insecurity, because we can lose all we worked for through no fault of our own inj that mileau. Or from the removal of privilege.

I saw this as driving the ACA poutrage here. It was about covering all the people it could, but its real and revolutionary change was for the poor. But there was little or no rejoicing over that here, and this is what the OP is discussing.

There should have been great relief on that count. The ACA has not directly benefited me except for the competition it put on insurers to stop the game of denying pre-existing conditions. My father died when I entered my teenage years not for lack of money, but the fact that government did not force them to offer coverage. The ACA did groundbreaking work on that front, with Medicaid expansion expressly dealt with giving 'the least among us' a chance to be treated as equals.

It was disappointing to see no celebration on lifting up the poor that some say they support. When it got down to it, they only complained about what they were not getting. They yelled about not getting more, in the face of those who previously got nothing and the majority of those were people of color, who seem invisible. But they suffer and die, and much of the time for no reason at all but color.

The outrage about what some didn't get more of is the voice of privilege speaking loud and clear.

JMHO. I support the OP.