The Myth Of White Privilege

The Myth Of White Privilege

Wanda L.Thacker 7-13-2016

I want to start this by stating emphatically, I am sick to death of being expected to apologize to ANY ethnic minority for ANYTHING.

I read a post by a Facebook friend today. It contained a video of a woman named Jane Elliott attempting to make a point about racism. She says that because nobody would stand up and say that they wanted to be treated like black people in America that they are willing to accept it. Of course not many people would be willing to stand up in front of a group of people and disagree with her, and she knew it. And there is another one of her berating a female student about racism, and then making her apologize to all of the black people in the class. The videos were put on Facebook by Occupy Democrats. She's an old, self-hating bitch and a bully. She wants the rest of us white people to hate ourselves too. I recommend watching them, but they made me angry on several levels. One the liberal self hate that is being perpetrated on white people through educational institutions, and two, the fact that a teacher is being such a bully. It doesn't matter whether she is right or believes something to be true. The role of a teacher is to encourage critical thinking, not to tell you what to think and believe and ridicule you for not doing it.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

White Audience Left Speechless By BRILLIANT Question About Race.

When A White Girl Gets A Taste Of White Racism Feels Like

I am going to encompass some of what I replied to the post here, because it made me think, not because I am angry about the post. It is the situation in the world right now that I am pretty pissed about. And I refuse to empathize with black people more than I do with anyone else. Because to do so would be too much like admitting I had done something wrong in the first place. I'm not admitting to a wrong I'm not guilty of for the sake of political correctness. I empathize with everyone. It's in my nature to sympathize with the underdog. And I was taught morals.

I’m going to use a lot more general terms here than I’m usually in the habit of doing. I’m going to say things like “they” and “black people”. I’m doing it to make a point and because it is so often done when people are speaking about white people. We are spoken of as if we all do, say and believe the same things.

They (black people and the white people and Jews who supported their cause) marched and protested and preached from the pulpit for 150 years to get desegregation and now are being led by a bunch of militant idiots who want to take 4 or 5 states over and form their own country within a country and reinstate segregation.http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/10/exclusive-new-black-panther-leader-country-within/ Basically the New Black Panther leaders are angrier and louder, just like Jane Elliott in these videos. And the regular black people are afraid to stand up to his opinion just like that white girl in the video. White people, like those in the first video, won't stand up either because they have either been taught to be ashamed in school, college or in mainstream media. I would absolutely have stood up in both classes. I'm not ashamed. I've never been racist. And I don't back down from an argument. One thing I know is this: the depth of anger you feel, the volume of your voice, or how certain you are that you are right prove the veracity of your argument.  

 The reason our country is a representative republic is so that the minority and the minority opinion is represented. Democracy is mob rule.

"Democracy is the most vile form of government. ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as the have been violent in their deaths."— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the U. S.

“We are a Republic. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”— Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) Lawyer, Secretary of the Treasury & Secretary of State

"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent."—  Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S

Here is a Facebook post by Dr. Mauricelm-Lei Millere he's a Black Panther and he also started the African American Defense League.

Dr. Mauricelm Lei-Millere Calls For Barbecuing Police

Who is Jane Elliot and what makes her the moral authority of white privilege?

She has been teaching "diversity" since the 60's.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott She started out teaching 3^rd grade students about racism, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Here's a video of her talking about it. How Do You Identify Racism? The Angry Eye with Jane ElliottHow Do You Identify Racism? The Angry Eye with Jane Elliott

But her basis for her theory is faulty.

She segregated her classrooms, then manipulated her students by dividing them into two groups. She gave one group more privileges based on their blue eye color and then manipulated them into mistreating the less privileged group with brown eyes. Now here's where the fault in her theory comes in. She is presupposing that they would have mistreated the other group if left to their own devices. Some might have, but others most likely wouldn't have.

After a few days she had the two groups to change status, much like what is happening in society right now. We are being told that we have to feel so guilty about whatever status we have to the point that we give it up to anyone who is of a real or perceived minority. Supposedly, the mistreated group, with brown eyes, wasn't as mean to the other group when they switched places and were now in the more privileged position, because they knew what it felt like. But we are seeing that not to be what actually happens in practice.

Why is this? It is because people without morals will always bully when they get power over someone else. They don't learn empathy. They learn to envy that position of power and come to the conclusion that they will feel better about their own situation by exerting power over someone else. That's how domestic violence is perpetuated from one generation to the next.

Black people are pretty bad to mistreat each other, which goes to show that, although they should understand what it's like to be mistreated and therefore be more empathetic, it doesn't work that way. African Americans were victimized by intimate partners a significantly higher rates than persons of any other race between 1993 and 1998. Black females experienced intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher than that of white females, and about 22 times the rate of women of other races. Black males experienced intimate partner violence at a rate about 62% higher than that of white males and about 2.5 times the rate of men of other races.(http://www.americanbar.org/groups/domestic_violence/resources/statistics/Race_Ethnicity_Statisitcs.html)http://www.americanbar.org/groups/domestic_violence/resources/statistics/Race_Ethnicity_Statisitcs.html You can take two things from those statistics. There needs to be a male role model in the home to teach men not to be violent, and many black women, who are held up as the backbone of their society, really suck at being empathetic. For black men to be abused 62% more than white men, it's black women in the form of mothers and wives/girlfriends that are perpetrating it. In short the prisons being full of violent young black men is directly caused by black women. There's a reason that black serial rapists tend to victimize black women. Some of them hate black women who they see as their abusers.

Black people are always wanting white people to apologize for what was done to their ancestors on plantations and talking about the legacy of it. Well, one of the biggest legacies of it is that black women were abused by their masters and in turn were abusive to their children, who in turn carried on that legacy of abuse. They didn't learn empathy, they learned bullying and the exercise of power over others. They learned that it's easier to take power than to earn it. In many instances, we don't have so much a racism problem as a morality problem in America. And you can't teach it by Jane Elliott's methods. They really aren't going to have much luck at getting other people to treat them however they think they are entitled to be treated, until they treat each other like human beings.

In that vein, lets look at the issue of their racism toward each other. Chris Rock is one of the most racist entertainers there is out there.See Dear Chris Rock Your Asian Joke Wasn't Funny http://xtribune.com/2015/chris-rock-just-made-some-racist-comments-that-should-have-every-white-person-furious/

He did a whole documentary on the subject called Good Hair. It's about how black people with straighter, so called “whiter” hair enjoy greater status and the lengths they go to to get straight hair. The same thing is true of lighter skinned black people. I'm not talking about how people of other races treat them, but how they treat each other. (http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=548303&page=1)

Supposedly, this started back on the plantations, where the masters treated the lighter skinned offspring that they had fathered, better. But what did the blacks do when they got off the plantations? Instead of correcting the behavior, they perpetuated it on themselves. Look at Beyonce Knowles. Her skin isn't the darkest and she either straightens her hair or wears wigs, and they are blonde. And yet she's supposed to be some sort of advocate for a whole race of people. It's ironic that when black people try to make themselves look lighter and blonder that is called a personal choice, but if a white person wears corn rows or dread locks or listens to rap music, that's cultural appropriation. All black people aren't the same. When one of them gets held up as speaking for them all, isn't that being prejudiced? I don't claim to speak for all white people. I can only speak for myself and to my own experience. I'm not going to judge all black people by the stupid things some of them do. So, why is it alright for me to be judged guilty of something someone else does? The logic that people like me aren't doing enough to stop the “systemic racism” and are therefore guilty because of it, doesn't hold water when you take into consideration that more black people are killed by other black people than by police. Especially, when you factor in those other forms of black on black racism already noted.

With the issue of racism, people often stray into semantics. Supposedly, bigotry, prejudice and ignorance are different than racism. We are told that black people can be prejudiced toward whites and have ignorant opinions about them. But racism is something that exists not just on an individual level but also on an institutional level, or so we are told. Speaking of appropriation, I think they have appropriated the word racism.

Racism is being defined as a system where white people as the majority is benefiting from oppressing blacks. And they say we all benefit from it whether or not we want to, and therefore are guilty. This is simplified by the term “white privilege”. But Merriam-Webster defines prejudice as: an unfair feeling of dislike for a person or group because of race, sex, religion, etc. Ergo, if black people admit to prejudice, they are racist.

If you say, hey wait a minute my ancestors were oppressed and persecuted too, they counter with, yes, but in America white people weren't slaves, or forced to segregate, or at least not at the same level as blacks have been. It becomes an argument of, your misfortunes are not as great as ours, so therefore do not count.

They argue that white people don't have job discrimination, and are not brutalized by police or are not sent to jail or the penitentiary at the same rate as black people do. They say that in our country they don't have equal power, or status or opportunity. If you disagree with any of those points, they say you are in denial about your white privilege. And the very fact that you argue is held up as proof of your racism. You know, if I have privilege, I'm not apologizing for it.

As far as status and opportunity are concerned, this country was built by people who came here as minorities, from places where they were persecuted, only to be discriminated and treated as second class, only to struggle and rise above it. Many of them were indentured servants. In the mid to late 1700's when the German immigrants were coming into Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin wrote that they were inferior to white English people and worried that the English culture would be lost because of their different culture. He wrote all sorts of prejudicial things about them. And similar things happened when Irish immigrants came.

Black people say there is no such thing as reverse racism. A lot of white people would then say, not so fast, what about affirmative action? So, let's look at that in the area of college scholarships. There have been statistics quoted that say white people are 40% more likely to get a private scholarship than black students.

The thing to keep in mind about scholarships is this: there are more white people, so it stands to reason that statistically, more of them will apply for and receive scholarships. That's just common sense. If there is a pizza and everyone gets the same size slice, but there are more white people in line for a slice, more slices are going to be given out to white people. That can be twisted to say that because black people didn't get as many slices, they were discriminated against. It doesn't seem to matter that they get the same sized slice. That's why we have affirmative action. Affirmative action essentially forces some of the white people to get out of line so that more black people can get into line.They don't compare say, 200 whites and 200 blacks to the total available scholarships. They compare say 200 whites and 30 blacks. You can't do that and have an outcome where whites aren't being penalized for their race.

Whites make up 69.3% of the students There are 6.2% of white students that get private scholarships and 4.4% blacks getting them. This means as a group there are 63.1% of white students NOT getting private scholarships. As you can see, white people are only getting 1.8% more private scholarships.

But the same study said that white students were 40% more LIKELY to get a private scholarship. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't reflect that white students make up 61.8% of the population. And black students only make up 14%. It doesn't make any difference what the rest of the figures show. The only thing anyone is going to hear is that random 40% figure.

To revert back to the pizza analogy, yeah if there are more of us, it's more likely that we are going to get the scholarships. It's not surprising that some white people feel they are penalized by affirmative action. Who cares what the likelihood is, the important thing is the end result. Basically, the study shows that white people are getting a slightly higher amount of scholarships, but gives absolutely no basis for where they come up with that 40% more likelihood of receiving a scholarship from, and the point is irrelevant anyway.

Looking at another statistic, the study says that whites get 65% of total funding even though they only make up 61.8% of the student population. That's a difference of only 3.2%. Blacks make up 14% of the students and they get 11.9%. That's a difference of 2.1%. So whites get a little more than they should and blacks get a little less than they should. There could be a million reasons for those differences that have nothing to do with racial privilege. One might be grades and another might be as simple as they apply for them.

About 1/3 of white and Asian students that got PELL grants had high grade point averages, but only about 1/5 of blacks did. So in effect, this is what the problem is. It's not money, it's how hard you work for what you get. The white students are getting better grades and their reward for it is that black students with lower grades get almost as many grants and scholarships. You can check this stuff out yourself. (http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf) The bottom line is blacks get almost as much money by percentage of student as white people do, but they don't do it based on grades. The system is rigged. It should start out based on grades, and then from within that group be allotted according to race if race is going to be a factor at all. It may be purporting to level the playing field according to race, but it handicaps whites according to grades.

The idea of quotas and preferential treatment is counter to the American dream. And in 1978, the landmark Regents of California v. Allan Bakke case made racial quotas unconstitutional. Most Americans support affirmative action, but most whites are against preferential treament according to race. Affirmative action seeks to eliminate racial bias, but preferential treatment isn't the same thing.Americans Support Affirmative Action Not Minority Preference

I want to come back to that whole cultural appropriation subject again. If white people do anything that black people do, it's cultural appropriation. And if they wear straightened or blonde hair or lighten their skin, it's supposedly so that they can survive in our world and conform to our ideas of beauty. Do, they not realize that if white people mimic something from black culture, it's because they found something from within it to admire, and maybe they are including blacks into their idea of beauty? If they weren't being so negative, they would realize it's a compliment. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. White people are exposed to the same media influences as black people.

When it comes to black on white crime, they resort to semantics again. They say that black people killing white people isn't hate crimes, because it isn't due to the “system”. Again, the argument is that to be racist it has to be something to do with the “system”. But that doesn't fit with the legal definition of a hate crime. The FBI has defined it as “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.” There's nothing in there about the “system”. If that's the rule we have to live by, then it's the rule they have to live by.

I will just go ahead and include the statistics for black on white crime and blacks killed by police at the same time, since we have to have the “system” involved in order to prove racism. Blacks make up 13% of the population, but commit about 50% of the homicides. Between 1980 and 2008, they committed 52% of the homicides. Whites committed 45%. That's DOJ statistics. (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf). More recent statistics are similar. In 2013, black criminals carried out 38% of murders, compared to 31.1% for whites, again despite the fact that there are five times more white people in the U.S. (https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/crimestats)

Between 2011 and 2013, 38.5 % of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black. That is three times the 13% black population. Black men make up around 3% of the population. Yet they are responsible for the vast majority of these crimes. That's

an astonishing statistic.

Here's a good place to insert some Chris Rock racism. Speaking about police brutality, he said, “It’s not that it’s gotten worse; it’s just that it’s part of the 24-hour news cycle,” Rock said of police brutality. “What’s weird is that it never happens to white kids. There’s no evidence that white youngsters are any less belligerent, you know?”

Even though blacks and whites commit a similar number of crimes, whites are almost twice as likely to be killed by police. (http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/21/michael-medved/talk-show-host-police-kill-more-whites-blacks/) Between 1999 and 2011, 2,151 whites died as a result of being shot by police compared to 1,130 blacks. Again blacks make up only 13% of the population and yet the number of crimes is nearly equal to that committed by whites. The number should be much lower.

Even though white people outnumbered blacks five to one, blacks commit 8 times more crimes against whites than whites commit against them. This is from FBI statistics from 2007. A white male is 40 times more likely to be assaulted by a black male than a black man is to be assaulted by a white male. Interracial rape is almost totally black on white. (http://news.yahoo.com/black-americas-real-problem-isnt-white-racism-070000529.html)

This inclination to commit violent crime is precisely what causes more blacks to be in confrontations with police in the first place. It's just common sense that if most of the calls to police are coming from black neighborhoods, and the calls are concerning blacks committing these violent crimes, then of course they are more likely to have an altercation with police.

Black Lives Matter perpetrates the story that black people being victims of these police encounters is because the police are racist. Racism plays into it but it's only one element of the situation.

Blacks argue that they are targeted and framed for crimes by the police because they are racist. But according to the National Crime Victimization Survey, it is the victims who identify their attackers as black and not the police. (Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic [4 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the American MosaicFront CoverCharles A. Gallagher, Cameron D. LippardABC-CLIO, Jun 24, 2014)

Poverty is one of the causes of blacks being more likely to commit violent crime because it makes family breakdown worse. And I have already addressed the abuse rates in black households. But pop culture also idealize it. A study conducted by the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, CA, showed that young blacks that listened to rap and hip hop were more likely to abuse alcohol and commit violent crimes. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5390075) And the liberal media justify this violence as they did after the riots in Ferguson.

As I earlier stated, white people are accused of being in denial when we say we aren't racist and we don't have white privilege. Police brutality is definitely a problem, not only for blacks but for everyone. But blacks are also in denial of the fact that the have a part in the problem of police brutality. As long as they refuse to admit that blacks committing violent crimes is a problem, the situation is never going to be solved.

Black Lives Matter, The New Black Panthers and other political leaders and protesters, along with the liberal media are responsible for the continued violence and the resultant police brutality against black people.

How is it that I as a white person supposedly benefit from racism? Well black people say things like, white people are all much wealthier than we would have been if we hadn't stolen land and used the free labor of black people to our benefit. And that the financial success of the country is both directly and indirectly linked to slavery. That would mean that as American citizens, they also benefit from slavery financially. They rationalize that their poverty is entirely due to slavery. And that all wealth that white people have is due to slavery. And we supposedly all get paid more for the same job and amount of work than they do. And we have less unemployment because we are less likely to be fired and more likely to be hired. The Century Foundation’s Working Paper Series says that when you account for racial differences in age, sex, marital status, occupation, state of residence, and other factors that there is just a 5% gap in the unemployment rate between blacks and whites. Those statistics don't tell you why there is a difference, only that there is one.

Statistically, black children are more likely to grow up in poor neighborhoods or to come from poor families. This in turn causes them to be stressed, to suffer from deprivation and neglect. They are frequently being raised by uneducated single parents who don't have good parenting skills. But there are programs in place to teach them things like to read to their children and to take them for regular checkups at the pediatrician. WIC is one such program. Some of the blame here again comes down to priorities and morals. Whatever your station in life you can choose to be happy with what you have. And if you neglect your children, that is not someone else's fault.

We get to live in better neighborhoods with better schools and because we have a better start in life, we do better in school. That one is easy to counter without even using statistics. If you live in a nicer neighborhood, you pay higher taxes, regardless of your income and that tax base pays for nicer schools. And it's against the law to keep black people out of a neighborhood or building based on their race. Even Donald Trump has been sued over it and lost. I'm not saying that it's not a fact that being poor actually causes changes in brain wiring. And this follows them the rest of the way through childhood meaning that they are less likely to go to college. But that is why there are early childhood learning programs. It's to try and counter the problem. It's not as if people are ignoring the problem. This all somehow translates into them being more likely to end up in the criminal justice system. I guess it's because being poor is an excuse to resort to crime to make money.

They even gripe because we live longer. Black men live five years less on average than white men. Again this goes back to their start in life. They are more likely to be born as low birth weight babies. The infant mortality rate is nearly double too. But this is because they are more likely to be born to unmarried teen mothers who are uneducated, poor, and less healthy. And they are less likely to get prenatal care. Despite Planned Parenthood, black women use less contraception than white women. There is no indication that any systemic racism causes this. There are programs to help unmarried women of low income get contraception, and prenatal care. Some of them may not qualify, but some white women don't either. I understand that if you are poor, you don't eat well and nutrition effects both the brain development of a child and their health. But this doesn't change the fact that part of this viscious cycle is the fault of blacks too. Because of this bad start in life they have more health issues the rest of their lives like obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. But again, it's not as if nobody is addressing the issue. With Obama Care, there has been a significant change. It made preventive care more affordable and concentrated on several other areas in which black Americans have lagged health-wise, including a projected expansion​ of maternity coverage to more than 390,000 black women. But the one of the greatest causes for black men living shorter lives than white men is homicide. Homicide accounts for almost as many deaths as heart disease and more than cancer. CDC Causes Of Death For Black Men I've already shown that they die from killing each other many times more than being killed by anyone else.

They say that the system never works in their favor. I have already established that sometimes racial preference in the name of affirmative action works in their favor. This system that is so terrible provides many of them with Section 8 housing, with SSI and Footstamps. If they work, they pay into and receive the same Social Security and Social Security Disability that white people do.

Just because I believe all men are created equal doesn't mean I believe their journeys in life will all be the same or should be. I haven't had to worry about whether I would be hired based on my race. I never had to worry about whether or not I would be accepted into a college based on my color. It is arguable that many white people have a head start. But it is also arguable that many of them have reached a hand back and tried to pull their fellow man up with them. Saying that all people are racist because they benefit from racism is akin to saying that all white people are guilty of the murder committed by one man. Or all black men are guilty of the murder committed by one black man.

Black people have an issue with white people being so called colorblind.You know the thing where white people say that you should be blind to color/race. I am not colorblind. I see very clearly that there are racial and cultural differences. I think that is magnificent. I have always thought it was well meaning stupidity to say that we are all the same. I think all of the uniqueness within humanity ought to be celebrated. They keep telling us that we can't just be passively about not discriminating, that we have to be actively trying to end inequality. But nobody tells you how they want you to do that. A good case in point was when the Black Lives Matter told white people to go home from their demonstrations.

White people are faulted for believing that if you work hard you can achieve much. We are told that our success doesn't have much to do with all that effort we put in, that the American dream isn't real. They say things like out of the 400 richest people in America, Oprah is the only black one. Why doesn't anyone ever check to see where those people started out in life? Supposing they inherited their wealth, where did their relatives start out and what did they do to achieve that wealth. If Oprah had children, would she not leave her money to them? Racial dynamics may have played into it. But negating a person's hard work is disingenuous. My mother's ancestors came here from Germany in the mid 1700's. They were escaping religious persecution. When they arrived in Philadelphia, they worked there for about seven years before they were able to buy land in Virginia. They worked that land for several more years before moving further into Virginia and buying other land. Nobody gave it to them. I just do not agree that they were able to do that because of slavery. They fought during the Revolutionary War. And several more generations later, they fought for the North in the Civil War. There is nothing in that narrative that suggests a benefit from slavery.

Here are some of the more silly ways that I have found on the internet that I am found guilty of white privilege.

1. Band aids come in flesh color, white flesh color. I don't know anybody who is the color of band aids. But if the companies who make them think we prefer that color, and they are in business to make a profit, it makes sense that they would market to us, since there are more of us. It's simple supply and demand.
2. The shampoo at hotels is of a type made for white hair. And somehow it's because we expect it to be. When I go to a hotel, I either bring my own shampoo or I go somewhere in the vicinity of it and buy some. It has never occurred to me to think hotels were supposed to provide me as a white person with white people shampoo.
3. I can buy pantyhose in my color pretty much where ever I look for them. Seriously? There are about 50 million different colors of pantyhose and a lot of the time I buy black pantyhose to go on my lily white legs.
4. They don't put my haircare products in an area designated as ethnic. I couldn't care less which isle my haircare products are in. When I went to Myrtle Beach, the drug store I went to to buy shampoo had way more ethnic products than white ones and I noticed it, but it didn't bother me.
5. I can purchase travel size bottles of haircare products as most drug stores. Again, who cares. If I couldn't I would go to the one that did have them. I'm not buying that most drug stores in black neighborhoods only sell products for white people.

If these are the kind of advantages I'm supposed to be happy about, I got screwed. I want better advantages.

Here are some more:

6. People don't assume that I got where I am because of my race or affirmative action. No. But they do assume it's because of my privilege.
7. When I was taught history in school, I was supposedly only taught white history. I wasn't taught about any of the contributions that black people made to the country. This is unadulterated bull excrement. I went to an upper middle class predominantly white school. But we were absolutely taught things about black people. And all of the pictures in the books weren't of white people.
8. National monuments are only of white men in places like Washington D.C. Well of course, they were the founding fathers. There weren't any black founding fathers. If they only represent white history, then why do they only reflect the early years of the country? Every doggone town in America has a Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.

Ben Shapiro wrote an essay called "Why White People Seek Black Privilege." He addressed the topic of white people having privileges they didn't earn. If you are born into a wealthy family, that might be an unearned privilege. Both blacks and whites can have those. Being born smart or tall or athletic is an unearned advantage. But what if you are born “white in a rural backwater in West Virginia”? That isn't an advantage over being born the son of Colin Powell, he points out.

There are things within our culture that glorify black culture. Black History Month, BET and things of that sort are reverse racism. All black television shows don't bother me. They have been around forever. But The BET Awards is different. The black actors participate in award shows with people of other races and then on top of that have awards specific to blacks on BET. Samuel L. Jackson won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016, at the BET Awards. He is worth $170 million dollars. I don't think that award means as much to him as all that bank. He could make do without that award and sleep well at night. But award shows are at best mildly entertaining to me, black or white. So, I really don't worry a lot about them. It just became an issue when a bunch of black actors decided they were going to boycott the white awards shows because they feel underappreciated. Give me a break. Will Smith is worth 200 million dollars.

They say that we don't need a white history month because all history is white history. That's stupid logic. There are other races after all. History is the history of mankind. Black History month is supposed to be about history in America. Yet there are people being taught about like Nelson Mandela. He's not American. If Apartheid were being taught in a history or social studies class, they wouldn't leave him out. But that's world history. There are people who were Jazz musicians being taught about as black history. They don't teach about musicians of any other race as history. I learned about Mozart in music class, not history. And he was European. They never ever implied in my music classes that black people made no contribution to music either directly or by omission. And black scientists and inventors, were taught about in my history class. I learned about George Washington Carver and Eli Whitney. It makes much more sense to me to integrate whatever black people think needs to be taught about during Black History Month into the regular curriculum. Otherwise, we need to have Hispanic-Latino Month and Asian Month and the list goes on. There are only 12 months. The United States Census officially recognizes six ethnic and racial categories: White American, Black or African American, Native American and Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races. By my count, we should be having four other special months. The most interesting one would be the month for bi-racial people. There are so many variations in that category.

How do black people benefit from black privilege? Before you start jumping up and down, there is a list for this too.

1. The NAACP. There is no National Association for the Advancement of White People. That would be racist.
2. Black people think it is perfectly acceptable to call white people things like “honky” and “cracker”. But we better not use the “N” word.
3. The NBA is racist because 90% of the players are black. You can't say it's because they earned it. Because white people aren't allowed to claim they earned their privileges.
4. Have you ever heard of “affirmative grading”? That's when college professors hold black students to lower standards than whites.
5. If you aren't successful in any other field in life, you can build an entire career out of complaining about being black and call it activism. That works so well Rachel Dolezar pretended to be black so she could cash in on it.

You might say this list is ridiculous, but so is the other one.

It is entirely possible to acknowledge that racism exists, while not agreeing that I am guilty of it. I may have benefited from the way things are in the world, but that doesn't mean I should feel guilty. There's not a black person living in a housing project who if they won the lottery would feel guilty for it. I think white people should feel compassion for their fellow man and to try and better the lives of anyone they can. But they should do it because it's the right thing to do, not because they are guilty or ashamed.

One decided disadvantage to being white is having to answer for all of the ills of the world as if we created them each and every one all by ourselves. This myth is being foisted upon the American people at our so called institutions of higher learning. If you type white privilege into a search engine, a lot of the web addresses that come up have .edu at the end. http://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/whiteness05.htm. This University of Dayton site says white persons have a "special freedom or immunity from some [liabilities or burdens] to which non-white persons are subject[.]" There was also a conference held earlier this year to discuss white privilege. http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/. Apparently white people have meetings to aid each other in better experience their collective shame.

If I have white privilege, I'm not going to try to justify it. But I'm not going to apologize for it either. Check yourself.

Ezekiel 18:19-20 ESV “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Lamentations 5:7-8 ESV “Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.”