When you are ready to move to a society where everyone is equal and everyone’s issues and caveats are addressed and everyone has their rights (including essential human rights to housing, education, healthcare, healthy food, clean water) addressed, then good. Otherwise it is just noise, and when you look in the mirror, you have a thousand different types of “privileges” over other people waiting to be recognized.

Citizens are the people in a society that contribute to all things that make society. Citizens are valuable, good, and are the reason for any office in the first place.

There is a nuance with the words, fellow citizens. Language is powerful.

Peace,
Melissa

The biggest privilege whites have is that of not having to think about being white. It makes them regular – all else is the other.

He should give those priviledges a good hard look and start to reconsider his life and what his priviledge has brought him in this great land of ours (the United States of America). Oscar never thought about priviledge before, let alone that he had some, more than, according to joed, African American’s even the fellow in the White House has less priviledge than him! Ohhhh myyyyy. That’s stunning.

So, what should Oscar do? It’s like he’s just found out he’s won the lottery and the checks in the mail, and he needs to figure out what to do with the money, once deposited. Should he buy things, or invest? No he should give it away…make the lives of others better…richer…create a foundation of priviledge and provide credit to people in need of….well…priviledge. One person one share of priviledge credit…it’s the American way!

Oscar did just that. He’s a happy man with his dog who loves him and the priviledge he shares through his foundation.

End of story

If I were an oversensitive person, I’d say your comments are racist…this be “kind” to African Americans is belittling and down right nausiating.

You think you have priviledges that African Americans (without exception don’t) and that they, African Americans have no priviledges?

What are these priviledges? (Plural please and not just the cops won’t slam your head to the ground if your walking on the “wrong side of town”.)

but it is not to late for all pals to drown in three-meter wide and two km long gazan ocean. Iraqis cld do that in either the tigris or euphrates.
This way, present iraqis and pal’ns, wldn’t give birth to new untermenschen to serve supranatural ‘jews’.
but people never learn!
by the way, i am not going to drown self; i am no longer of kissing age.
tnx

Who gave you or me priviledge? Where is this handed out and how do you keep it?

I’m not wealthy. All my work is without pay and is dedicated to community. I’m able to subsist on a meager exchange.

I can’t give “priviledge” to someone; nor do I want to. If a police officer stops me, I don’t know what he may or may not do. He’s packing, I’m not. He’s got authority to use the gun. He’s the law.

Saying someone has some kind of yet to be shown, priviledge because of color and that we should, as B99 say, remind ourselves (whites) that we “have” this thing called priviledge is pure…pointlessness and counterproductive.

Solidarity is not based on a colonial mind-set of priviledge. What B99 is saying, in so many words, is that there is a White Man’s Burden and that burden is PRIVIEDGE. Franz Fanon would have a field day with this upsidedown liberal (aka B99) talk.

Just answer that simple question if you would.

The purpose of understanding white privilege is to enable acts of solidarity by whites, to ask your dry-cleaner to consider hiring an African-American, or to recommend a black company get a contract, or to tell a white person that a racial joke is not OK even if that outgroup is not around. When a cabbie says something about jig-a-boos, you reply; “Oh, you must think I am white.” These are not random acts of (silly) kindness, but concerted efforts to realize what whiteness affords the individual and to establish a pattern of solidarity with its victims. The effort is not only to end racism in America, but is an essential part of getting the working class its due. And that means of course, taking every opportunity to discuss race with the white working class.

From 1609 until the early 1800s, between one half and two thirds of all the White colonists who came to the New World came as slaves. White slaves cleared the forests, drained the swamps, built the roads, sweated in the fields, and died like flies in hellish factories. Owned like property, they had no rights nor recourse to the law. Fugitive slave laws applied to them just as to Blacks if they should flee their masters. Black slaves were expensive, and though at times cruelly used, were not often used beyond the limits of human endurance. That would have been a waste of a costly investment. White slaves, however, consisting of the poor and unwanted “surplus population” of Britain, were available for nearly nothing, just a few pence for a thug to billyclub them and shanghai them aboard a westward-bound vessel. Thus they were expendable.

The word “slave” itself is derived from the word “slav,” a reference to the Eastern European White people who, among others, were enslaved by their fellow Whites, by the Mongols, and by the Arabs over a period of many centuries. Children were openly seized from orphanages and workhouses and placed in factories or the plantations. The expression “spirited away” originated with the White slavers, who were called “spirits”.

The impression is given that only Whites bear responsibility for enslaving Blacks and that only Blacks were slaves. In fact, Blacks in Africa engaged in extensive enslavement of their own kind. Slavery was endemic in Africa, with entire tribes being enslaved through conquest on a regular basis. When Arabic, Jewish and White slave traders arrived on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa, they seldom if ever had to travel inland and fight or pursue their quarry. They were met on the coast by Africans more than willing to sell slaves to them by the thousands. Americac records show that Black slaves were owned, not just by a few wealthy Whites, but by free Blacks and by Cherokee Indians. In some cases, these Blacks and Indians even owned White slaves.

In recent decades, there has been a lot of misdirected hate. Far more Whites in America are descendants of White slaves than are descendants of slave owners. And considering the endemic nature of slavery in Black Africa, it’s also true that a large proportion of Blacks in America have ancestors that were themselves slave owners. That is what MLK alluded to. Anger is human, but we fail to see how much we really have in common. Yes, there is a problem that exists in America, but not all whites are guilty and not all blacks are victims. Entitlements, Privelege, etc. are concepts spawned out of the past few decades, not our sordid past. It’s time we stopped fueling the hate and moved on. The majority of us are more than capable of overcoming the stupidity of a few.

All we have to do is look at the history of the labor movement and the progressive era to see how racism weakened these movements. We even see the far-right like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Glen Beck attempt to use their microphones to spew out racist animosity in hopes to build up their base. This cannot be disregarded.

Also in addition to white supremacy, the Left needs to deal with Zionism as well. Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism in the U.S. is very acceptable.

In short if there is going to be any struggle against Capitalism it must also incorporate a struggle against all forms of racism. Otherwise as conditions worsens there will continue to be no coherence and no solidarity from the Left.