White Privilege

[Crabtownboy]

Didn't want to derail another thread where someone said there is no White Privilege. But, folks there is and here it is defined:

White privilege (or white skin privilege) is a term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is commonly experienced by the non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.[note 1] These privileges are unearned and are distributed based on values of the dominant group, which in the west is white people.[1] According to McIntosh and Lee, whites in a society considered culturally a part of the Western World enjoy advantages that non-whites do not experience.[1] This leads to the controversy over whether or not White people should be able to enjoy these privileges. The term denotes both obvious and less obvious passive advantages that white persons may not recognize they have, which distinguishes it from overt bias or prejudice.[2] These include cultural affirmations of one's own worth; presumed greater social status; and freedom to move, buy, work, play, and speak freely.[1] The effects can be seen in professional, educational, and personal contexts.[3] The concept of white privilege also implies the right to assume the universality of one's own experiences, marking others as different or exceptional while perceiving oneself as normal.[4][5]
Academic perspectives such as critical race theory and whiteness studies use the concept of "white privilege" to analyze how racism and racialized societies affect the lives of white people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege

In case anyone has forgotten what privilege means here is the definition:

a right or benefit that is given to some people and not to others

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privilege

 

[matt wade]

You've just given us the definition of White Privilege, but have not shown us where/how it exists.

 

[Salty]

Crabby, don't mean to derail your thread - but those who think it's bad in the United States - let them go to some other counties where they would have to deal with Muslim Privilege,

 

[Bro. Curtis]

I wish I was enjoying some white privilege. Sounds pretty good, to me.

 

[Revmitchell]

The Myth Of White Privilege

White privilege, along with the critical race theory and post traumatic slave syndrome, are liberal false theories and ideologies designed to ignore the real reasons for failings in the inner city black community. Liberals and liberal academia cannot face, nor acknowledge, that the true reason for these failings lie in decades of Democrat liberal policies. They can’t acknowledge that government dependency, welfare, food stamps, and a host of other government programs that were supposed to help the black community, actually proved to have the opposite effect. They can’t acknowledge this because they were the architect of these policies.

http://blog.chron.com/texassparkle/2014/05/the-myth-of-white-privilege/

 

[Crabtownboy]

Crabby, don't mean to derail your thread - but those who think it's bad in the United States - let them go to some other counties where they would have to deal with Muslim Privilege,

Salty, yep. There are places where we would not be of the privileged. When I was in China I never expected to be Chinese privileged.

On the person who said I did not show that White Privilege exists. That was not the purpose of this thread. Just wanted to give a definition. If you are not White then you would have no problem believing it exists.

Read somewhere the other day:

In this society American means White ... everyone else is hyphenated.

 

[just-want-peace]

http://blog.chron.com/texassparkle/2014/05/the-myth-of-white-privilege/

The Ferguson/NY debacles have drawn a lot of blacks that refuse to stay on the political plantation. Sometimes a catalyst is all that's ended to spark a "revolution".

No doubt the black community has increased it's "UNCLE TOMS" several thousand percent if all the outspoken blacks are any indication.

This just has to frustrate the demon party as the political underground RR is seemingly alive and well at present, and is steadily eroding the house of cards constructed by them like an invasion of termites.