xeodtech
xeodtech's JournalRacism from a 53-year-old white male form a white privileged neighborhood.
I was a white teenager in a predominately white area in upstate New York. My father was a Doctor and my mother a nurse, we were surely privileged. Our high school had maybe one or two people of color when I grew up. Honestly, we didn’t dislike each other or see each other that much differently. What happened to integration?
It’s still the same way now. I guess that was only for the southern people.
Our parents taught us to not look differently at people with color and treat them the same way you would do as your best friends. I remember when I was in my teen years, we were rolling skating with 4 of our friends. One was black (or a person of color) and the other was white. We had nicknames for each other. One was the black honkey and the other was white n…. reversed of course. It shames me today to admit what happened 30 years ago.
The roller-skating rink we frequented was primarily people of color and one day I found myself yelling hey n…ger at the rink to try to get my white friend to respond. My other friends (white) took me to the side and instructed me this was very wrong and although we had a relationship with our friend you should never do this.
This is the white privilege as I keep trying to understand every day of my life since the late 1980’s I have served on a jail committee that has seen the terrible plights of AA young men without money being incarcerated in pretrial confinement for years because of their color and their economic situation. My friends and I have taken the path of understanding our privileges and do what we can to change the ways or the 70’s or 80’s…
The first instance of my privilege was in 1984 when one of my AA friends drove me down Columbus City off of Ft. Benning and I was in the back of the car. The only thing the officer asked was that was I OK? I went off and on white rant that aske him WTF was he doing pulling up over. My friends were absolutely disturbed.
You see that my friend is my privilege and I live every day to end it.
However , I could have done the same thing as Governor Northam back I 1980s.. Please look at his record.
We have to top eating our own…
How many times can you impeach?
The thugs tried to overturn obamacare how many times? Is there a limit on how many times the house can impeach the jerkoff before the senate convicts.. Just keep impeaching him. One by one for all of his affairs...
Mitch F'in McConnell
The optics of this situation would be totally different if Turtle Head would allow a vote. Then dump would have to veto it. It would be nice to have the votes to overturn the veto but I doubt it. What does dumpster have on McConnell.. does he have ruskie connections too?
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Name: BobGender: Male
Hometown: Syracuse NY
Home country: USA
Current location: Syracuse
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