I was going to make a joke about never leaving home without my White Privilege card (great image, by the way—sums it up perfectly), but...it's too true to be funny in my case.
Excellent use of Clarence Thomas as an example of the difference between "White Supremacy" and "White Privilege". No matter how hard he tries (and you know he's tried!), Thomas will never feel the sense of White Privilege I get, his wife Ginny gets, or any White Person gets by just existing in this country. If Kyle Rittenhouse proved anything, it's that while Clarence Thomas would probably get arrested (or at least "detained"—nice antiseptic word, that!) for walking down the street at night with a handgun under his judicial robes, I could walk down the same street at the same time cradling an assault rifle and the worst thing a cop would do to me is politely call out, "You have the safety flipped on that, Sir? Wouldn't want any accidents...Ha-Ha...."
I hope Thom Hartmann reads this so that he *groks* what you were telling him while you were talking on his show.
PS: I never heard this part of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before today:
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave, from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Yeah, that really drives the message home, doesn't it...?
It is Key's, a vicious slaver by the way, third verse of the hallowed anthem. The mere fact that it is unknown and has been muted tells the tale much better than I am capable of.
Pertinent to the WPC, you will note that it states "Member Since: Birth/ Good Through: Death." And the cardholder is, quite literally, "Scott Free."
In the end, white privilege is the privilege of being ignorant with pride and perpetuating institutions, beliefs and systems that codify that ignorance.
I remember Scott Key was a slaveowner—I didn't think he'd be so shameless as to include it in his poem.
I did see that on the card, though I confess when I first saw the name I went, "Mr. Miracle?" —a DC Comics super-escape artist who shares that given name. It sure fits, though....
As for White Privilege? SHAME on those who make White Folk feel uncomfortable about themselves! Next, you'll be demanding Critical Race Theory be taught in schools, and from there...Why, Black People may start expecting White People to treat them just the same as other White People! The Pillars of Society are sure to crumble after that...!
Egad, I'm in a mood today. I think I'm going to lie down and pet The Meatloaf for a while....
White privilege is that I walk around unimprisoned for my skin color for doing what black, people of color,
alkebulanians, whatever you will term it, would be locked up and spend their lives behind bars or in graves whether they actually had done the actions are not. White privilege is their no concentration camp for whites and a concentration camp that o black ever escapes, no matter his success. Thomas, Ganz, and Scott are all still surrounded by the fences of that concentration camp. White privilege is what no black person in America has---privilege.
of course, nature's way would be that no man has a privilege to impregnate a woman who doesn't choose him to do so. Very keen observation---connecting white privilege & male privilege. Without male privilege there might (probably not) be white privilege.
I was going to make a joke about never leaving home without my White Privilege card (great image, by the way—sums it up perfectly), but...it's too true to be funny in my case.
Excellent use of Clarence Thomas as an example of the difference between "White Supremacy" and "White Privilege". No matter how hard he tries (and you know he's tried!), Thomas will never feel the sense of White Privilege I get, his wife Ginny gets, or any White Person gets by just existing in this country. If Kyle Rittenhouse proved anything, it's that while Clarence Thomas would probably get arrested (or at least "detained"—nice antiseptic word, that!) for walking down the street at night with a handgun under his judicial robes, I could walk down the same street at the same time cradling an assault rifle and the worst thing a cop would do to me is politely call out, "You have the safety flipped on that, Sir? Wouldn't want any accidents...Ha-Ha...."
I hope Thom Hartmann reads this so that he *groks* what you were telling him while you were talking on his show.
PS: I never heard this part of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before today:
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave, from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Yeah, that really drives the message home, doesn't it...?
It is Key's, a vicious slaver by the way, third verse of the hallowed anthem. The mere fact that it is unknown and has been muted tells the tale much better than I am capable of.
Pertinent to the WPC, you will note that it states "Member Since: Birth/ Good Through: Death." And the cardholder is, quite literally, "Scott Free."
In the end, white privilege is the privilege of being ignorant with pride and perpetuating institutions, beliefs and systems that codify that ignorance.
I remember Scott Key was a slaveowner—I didn't think he'd be so shameless as to include it in his poem.
I did see that on the card, though I confess when I first saw the name I went, "Mr. Miracle?" —a DC Comics super-escape artist who shares that given name. It sure fits, though....
As for White Privilege? SHAME on those who make White Folk feel uncomfortable about themselves! Next, you'll be demanding Critical Race Theory be taught in schools, and from there...Why, Black People may start expecting White People to treat them just the same as other White People! The Pillars of Society are sure to crumble after that...!
Egad, I'm in a mood today. I think I'm going to lie down and pet The Meatloaf for a while....
Give meatloaf my fondest regards, and gratitude for being your therapist.
I can only imagine how much whitesplaining the MLK Jr holiday brings... it's gotta be nauseating.
Especially as it, no doubt, comes from the mouths of people able to be ignorant of the realities around them.
Ah, Mr. Kenyatta, breathtaking.
White privilege is that I walk around unimprisoned for my skin color for doing what black, people of color,
alkebulanians, whatever you will term it, would be locked up and spend their lives behind bars or in graves whether they actually had done the actions are not. White privilege is their no concentration camp for whites and a concentration camp that o black ever escapes, no matter his success. Thomas, Ganz, and Scott are all still surrounded by the fences of that concentration camp. White privilege is what no black person in America has---privilege.
of course, nature's way would be that no man has a privilege to impregnate a woman who doesn't choose him to do so. Very keen observation---connecting white privilege & male privilege. Without male privilege there might (probably not) be white privilege.