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In reply to the discussion: "Let's work to end racial discrimination" is a better approach than "whites are so privileged". [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Denial of the existence of white privilege by white people, keeps feeding the privilege.
You can walk down any street in America and not get bothered by the cops. I cannot. You have the privilege of going about your business without fear of being harassed just because of the color of your skin. I have been harassed in my own neighborhood and told to go back to Africa, ni@&er. This was in Tustin, California, by a car full of young white males. I have never been to Africa.
How many times a similar situation happened to you?? It's hapoened to me too many times to count.
I've also been called slave, Cassie girl, spook, shadow, tar baby and many assorted names by my all white classmates.
I actually had a teacher quit working at my school when I out scored all of the white kids on the CTBS. All of them in the whole school. And maybe the county.
She literally asked me how I did it, and called me a sneaky black cheat. Never saw her again.
This will never happen to your daughter if she is white. That's white privilege.