With the near constant condemnation of whites as racist, white supremacist, having ‘white privilege etc, has a bigger problem been created? … dum dum daaa … Black Privilege!
Let me start with a few examples;
1. if there is a crime reported, the perpetrator will only be named and a photo shown if he is white.
2. Universities, police agencies, businesses preferentially hire non-whites to meet virtue quotas.
3. Minority employees are all-but impossible to fire, as the employer will be accused of being racist.
4. Any street altercation – the white, if attacked by a black will be condemned as a racist as he instigated the alternation by making a racial slur. He will likely lose his job and many of his friends even though he is the victim. If a white attacks a black person, it is due to him being a white supremacist – no other causal factors will be considered.
5. Police abuse – the police have been guilty of abusing the population on occasion – QI and cultural factors within the police have led to negative outcomes for the population at large. That said, allowing one race to lay claim to being the only ones abused, when all the evidence is the police abuse the races equally, and then making excuses for rioting and murder under that false premise, … it is bizarre!
All this is very sad, long gone are the days when people could expect to be judged on the content of their character…
My question is, in creating the above circumstances, are we encouraging black people to expect this preferential treatment, and not only that, are we encouraging abuse because they have cover ..”do what I want or I will call you racist”. Any group given such power over others will have a sub-set that will abuse that power – it is not a phenomenon of race, it is simply the group in this case is racially based.
Sadly, in allowing a racial group to abuse such power, by, for example, walking up to women and demanding they kneel before them, this will only serve to destroy the progress we have made toward a color-blind society?
Am I wrong, and if so, how?
6 replies on “Is ‘Black privilege’ a thing?”
Number 2 is especially damaging to the people that want to achieve on their own merits as more and more people will see them as the token quota filler and not trust them to do a good job. It also means many black students, admitted into colleges they are not prepared for, will flunk out with student debt they cannot repay putting them even further into a social hole.
Oddly, the latino ethnic group has two problems with this. Some of them get hired to fill a slot and then give a bad name to the whole group while others work twice as hard as most as hotel maids, landscaping and other low wage, hard work jobs just to scrape by. Too bad we cannot magically swap the shiftless for the driven.
well said Karl. any ‘minority’ will be questioned … did the black brain surgeon who is going to operate on me get there because he is really talented, or did he get a pass at each stage of his education and career because they needed to fill a quota.
It certainly isn’t a new thing but women have had the same tension.. “Did she earn that job by numbers or… with overtime and lunches?”
“Is she just a pretty face or actually killer salesperson?”, etc.
I would add the following I have heard more than once: Blacks cannot be racist. Really? Rascist- I do not think that word means what you think it means. Heard more once from black lips: All whites are racist. I hate all whites. Asians are sneaky. Blacks cannot be racist.
Of course Blacks can’t be racist. The 11th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary says so. Doubleplus ungood, brother.
The idea seems to rely on someone needing to be in a position of power to be racist. I think that was what some little black snowflake bullied one of the dictionary companies to add as a definition when too many people told her she was wrong.
Of course, that whole idea relies on individual truth and personal belief, but that’s what has been pushed for a while. That also seems to justify the Lincoln statue destruction, as the fact that,at least the Boston one was paid for by former slaves, doesn’t seem to matter to some people.