Thread: white pride
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Old 03-07-2005, 06:34 AM   #53 (permalink)
Lockjaw
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Originally Posted by retsuki03
That is such bullshit.

If whites are the only people with power in the US, I suggest you find me some fucking plantations. You can't think of ways whites can be discriminated against?

Also, to all people who are suggesting I benefitted from being white in America, please explain.
While I don't agree with the sentiment that only whites can be racist because of some power thing(which is most certainly BS), "white" people in this country do have an advantage. It's not a huge insurmountable gap now unlike the past but it still exsists. The fact that if you are a white male between the ages of 30-65 you are the very face of power and authority in this country. You likely will not be subject to a random raised eye of suspicion from the police. You are on average likely to get treated better either knowingly or subconsciously by people in service industries. You will be more likely to be able to be more readily accepted into other circles of society than a minority be it a high powered social club or a private golf club.
White male shows up at a bicycling meet or a car racing event for example. You are just part of the crowd. Latino male shows up at the same event and they are a dot in the crowd.

A little old lady likely won't eye you as a threat if you stop to help her on the side of the road. Large chunks of the entertainment industry is fairly much tailored to the average white person.

And lastly a white person in many people's eyes legitimizes you or your cause. The Civil Rights movement didn't get any good press until white people started marching and getting arrested. Immigrant plight usually gets no attention until a white person gets involved. Music isn't legitimized or considered viable until a white person starts listening. And inter-racial marriages or relationships in many groups in this country are frowned upon UNLESS it's to a white person. I know several Asian people who have said that their family was against them bringing home a black,latino, but white people while not preferred were acceptable as their pressence would legitimize the marriage more. People that come in from foreign countries do the same thing. To "make it" they don't Americanize persay more so they tend to "white wash" themselves to fit in more with the majority.

The list goes on and on. It's nothing major but it's a lot of little subtle things the average white person either does not know about or takes for granted. This might not be your situation. You may have the life from hell and if you do I'm sorry. I'm black and I consider myself fairly blessed so I don't think the playing field is completely tilted against me. But there are certainly things even small that add up to be substantial. A lot of it isn't intentional it's just a product of the society we live in but to think it doesn't exist would not be looking at the entire truth of the situation.

I typically tell people that feel their life as a white person sucks or is just as hard as any minority. Take that same life and turn black or white and you probably will find it significantly more difficult in at least some aspect.
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