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In reply to the discussion: Why I don't like the term "white privilege" [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)OP.
The fact that both poor Whites and poor Blacks are suffering from diminishing income levels, high rates of incarceration, worsening access to education and health and are twice as likely to die in Iraq and Afghanistan as people from middle to high income family backgrounds just has to be some kind of bizarre coincidence.
I have absolutely no idea what this point has to do with anything I've posted or your own OP. In your haste to backpedal furiously, you are just throwing stuff out there and hoping it will stick.
The whole point of your OP was how "uncomfortable" you were with the concept of white privilege because of xxx including that the black middle class doesn't deserve any props and President Obama didn't come from a "traditional" (read: ghettofied) African American environment. Those were YOUR (ignorant and offensive) words.
And you are still sticking with the "poor whites" vs "poor blacks" when I have shown you -- REPEATEDLY now -- that blacks at EVERY SINGLE socio-economic level face discrimination that not even poor or middle class whites do. So your decision to stick with the class angle when you have been shown that class is not the issue shows a lack of ability to not only not understand what's right in front of you but a stubborn donkey-like determination to stick with a certain worldview or perspective no matter how flat out wrong it is. That is not the calling card of an intelligent person or anyone worth discussing such an important issue with.