Would you ever invite a person of color

ONLY someone living a life of ease can believe and say such things. You talk about privilege...that is some privileged opinion right there! The privilege of living it up! Come with me to the Middle East for a month. You think Israelis would survive without racial profiling? I'm Lebanese. If the Israelis did not practice racial profiling, Israel would be done in 3 months. It's not their fault: when mostly Arabs kill you, you check out mostly Arabs. That's on us! And when mostly Jews kill you too, you check out mostly Jews. Classroom idealisms are ever divorced from reality, and only the privileged who don't have to fear for their life or property can seriously entertain such ideas. I'm not even American, and it's clear to us outside the US that the privilege today belongs to the non-whites. It's the whites that get profiled and judged and discriminated against. And I'm not even a Japhethite.

 

Some sort of white preference may exist in certain pockets, but not to the extent of modern black or minority privilege.

There are positions, contracts, scholarships, and benefits available only to those of a certain minority status, some of it by law, some of it by "arrangement," some of it by the choices of those who hire or live in a neighborhood.

And there are neighborhoods I would not go into being white, unless I had a death wish, or at least wanted to be mugged and left for dead. God has rescued me more than once from such situations.

National systemic white privilege does not exist. However, national systemic minority privilege does.

 

Money talks--I get drownded out of the conversation.

 

What is the name of this system? Who established it? Democrats? Why didn't Obama do something about it? Will voting Democrat fix it?

 

If we all vote Democrat in the fall....

 

Beautiful. And irrelevant to the point that was made.

 

Talk about missing the point and twisting someone else's words, that was it in spades. The point is that your posts represent the mindset of someone far distant from the realities of life, like someone residing in a secluded affluent neighborhood surrounded by other elites. Are you a Vermonter?

 

Ok, since civil rights succeeded in changing the laws of this country, there has been a big problem with giving everyone an equally effective public education. This has led to a two decade drama though to fix this. It still needs a lot of work, because I would never trust my future children in public education, and I'm white.

Apart from this, the only other so called systemic issue is the poverty of hardworking Americans stuck in bottom wrung jobs. This afflicts all races though. Here some whites may be priveliged due to having forebears with capital they bequethed to their children. This can add up over generations, but Appalachia shows you this is not true of all whites.

What we need is a systematic attempt to snuff dire poverty out of our society for those hardworking families of any race. That issue has gotten far too little air time though. Hopefully the day we talk alleviating poverty for hardworking Americans is coming soon.

 

Is that all you got?

 

Amazing video. Highly informative. I do care about these issues. I disagree with the video's point that we just care.

Action is required and in pursuing action we must address social ills that while intended to hurt blacks, have hurt others in this country. I oppose reparations because money should not be taken from impoverished whites to help impoverished blacks.

Ultimately, prison reform such as championed by Prison Fellowship, equally effective schools, and a war on poverty in America are the things needed IMO. We should speak the truth of Jim Crow and racist policies as in this video, while aiming to do actual good by all people suffering.