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and where can I get some?I'm white... have been all my life, but this privilege stuff seems to continue to elude me.And why is it that the ones who complain about it the most are... rich white people?????

Re: What is "White Privilege"

I remember those days , they are over now.

That's not what they mean

That's not what they mean.

That's not what they mean. Explain it. To them, it's an inherent thing. Whites are born inherently privileged and thus must be tamped down in society out of a sense of justice and fairness to non-whites. It is a defacto admission of inherent white supremacy on the part of these morons

A white guy in one of our small groups asked this same question and took great offense at the term white privilege. The group leader gave what i believe to be a great modern example.The group leader posed a hypothetocal situation to him:If you were being interviewed for a job for which you are very qualified and were told by the interviewer that there was only one other candidate who was equally qualified sitting in the lobby waiting to be interviewes and when you walked out you saw that it was a black man, would you drive home worried that they would pick the other guy simply because he was a black?The guy in the group who asked that question quickly responded, no. Thr small group leader pointed out that is 'white privilege'.I shared that conversation with a small group of men comprised of both white men and black men. The black guys said it was true that they always felt they would be passed over by a potential employer simply for the race if a white guy was also being considered. The white guys said they worried about being passed over because of affirmative action. I asked the white guys how they would feel if there was no affirmative action? They said things would go back to being fair. One black guy spoke up and said, meaning yoi wouldn't drive home worried, but I still would.

Thanks for posting this!

Thanks for posting this!Lots to think about. Sometimes we just have no idea what it's like to be in someone else shoes. No we don't but does that make us bad people? My dad lost his job in 79 when the company he worked for shut down. We lived on government food stamps, Medicaid, government cheese, powdered milk, we didn't have a car, we at times didn't have a phone, we ate lots of beans, lots of bologna, we got free school lunches, we went to the school in the summer for free breakfast/lunch, we did not have vacations and we rarely left the city that I lived in. We went through periods where our electricity and water would be shut off. We at one time ran an extension cord from our neighbors house just so we could have some light in the house. We were made fun of a lot because of what we wore, where we lived and what we had to do to survive.There was a time when I went for a long period of time without a hot bath because we could not pay our utilities. I remember when we finally got our utilities turned back on and I took my first hot bath - when I got out of the tub I almost fell to the floor because my legs were so relaxed from the warm water(no joke). I have been working since I was 12 years old and even did odd jobs before then. I said all that because the topic of white privilege really gets under my skin. I want to know where my special treatment was or is? To this day, I have a difficult time being satisfied with what I currently have because I still have a poor mans mentality in my head.

Thanks for posting this!Lots to think about. Sometimes we just have no idea what it's like to be in someone else shoes. Yeah. That goes both ways