Then I started thinking about how often I've been hearing the term "white privilege" lately, and I decided I was spot on.
An ostensibly objective journalist at Univision feels comfortable using it in a conversation with the Most Equal Comrade:
The president of California State University takes it as fact:Yeah, they went there.“The killings of Michael Brown and Treyvon Martin clearly shows that we don’t live in a post-racial society as many expected when you were elected,” Ramos says.Obama chuckled, “Well, I didn’t expect that. You probably didn’t either.”“But many people expected you to do more on race relations, dealing with white privilege. Do you get angry with this? Is it your responsibility?”Then President Obama claimed Americans experience more equality now than before he took office, and also that Eric Holder was awesome. When Ramos pressed on saying, “but there’s not really been a lot of improvement,” Obama retorted, “The folks who say there’s not a lot of improvement, I don’t think were living in the 50′s and remembering what it was like to be black or Hispanic and interacting with the police then.”
So, no, I wasn't off-base. White male Christian heterosexuals are expected to puke all over themselves and expose their innermost thought patterns to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are not bigots.In a Dec. 5 op-ed, the president of California State University (CSU) claimed if you are “light skinned” you have “significant unearned privilege” and routinely think less of those who are different than yourself.In her piece, “Privilege at The Beach,”—referencing the Long Beach area where the school resides—Jane Close Conoley, a white woman herself, asserts that “light skin color and high income levels may attract significant unearned privilege.” Those who qualify for such privilege, often unknowingly exert distrust and “lower expectations of behavior” on those of another skin color.
Not that it matters a whit, and it might be twilight thinking, but personally, I have given up on trying to be multicultural. We lost the War on Poverty, the blacks are still pooping in their own mess kits, the Muslims hate us more than ever, even our white women dump on us. Let the Xers and the Millenniala give it a go. I'm off to put my white ass soul on ice, right in that cooler there with a ham on, yes indeedie, rye. Let's just say I've gone fishin'.
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