#DearWhitePeople

[kybkh]

So I have decided to accept the White Privilege Challenge and listen to popular black activists "confessionals". This dude in particular represented the perspective of African Americans I could most relate to. He acknowledges the advances in racial equality we have made in this country but as a counterpoint he states that these advancements have only been in place for the past two generations which means there are still disadvantages for being black.

I accept that point. Discrimination has generational impacts for sure. Being white has its benefits for sure. He doesn't offer any solutions to this issue though. In fact none of the videos I have seen to this point offer solutions other than outright stripping ownership from whites and redistributing their assets.

Two statements he made were especially frustrating:

1. Complaining about having to "work harder for what he has". Fact is at some point in time every race, culture, tribe, nation has had to earn what they have.

2. His base position is its the "black team" versus the "white team". From that starting point there can never be a "reconciliation" between the two races because he has accepted the idea that it is and always will be us versus them, a constant competition for resources which will always result in conflict.

[Martin Hash]

Everybody thinks everybody else is out to get them. (Me anyway...)

[The Conservative]

So I have decided to accept the White Privilege Challenge and listen to popular black activists "confessionals". This dude in particular represented the perspective of African Americans I could most relate to. He acknowledges the advances in racial equality we have made in this country but as a counterpoint he states that these advancements have only been in place for the past two generations which means there are still disadvantages for being black.

I accept that point. Discrimination has generational impacts for sure. Being white has its benefits for sure. He doesn't offer any solutions to this issue though. In fact none of the videos I have seen to this point offer solutions other than outright stripping ownership from whites and redistributing their assets.

Two statements he made were especially frustrating:

1. Complaining about having to "work harder for what he has". Fact is at some point in time every race, culture, tribe, nation has had to earn what they have.

2. His base position is its the "black team" versus the "white team". From that starting point there can never be a "reconciliation" between the two races because he has accepted the idea that it is and always will be us versus them, a constant competition for resources which will always result in conflict.

He is his own worst enemy. Instead of accepting that things aren't just going to be given to him, and he has to work hard for it, there is a claim that whites have it "easier"...

You know what, lets give them reparations, etc... then after that everything that has to do with race gets taken off the books, because if all it takes if a few hundred thousand to make people happen, I'll be more than willing to do it... after that, the bar is reset, and they got to work for everything just like us privileged white people do.

Also, get rid of the fucking flowers... god damn...

[Speaker to Animals]

I thought this bullcrap would be avoided through culture??

[The Conservative]

I thought this bullcrap would be avoided through culture??

I though this was meant to be over and done with, once Obama took office?

[Speaker to Animals]

Something does not add up. Surely race is not such a big deal? I was assured culture trumps race..

[The Conservative]

Something does not add up. Surely race is not such a big deal? I was assured culture trumps race..

Have you listened to what they call music now in the black community in the ghettos? That's a culture that should be cleaned out with more than a bar of soap...

[Martin Hash]

Race is a power grab. Every time you talk about it, you give the Race-baiters power. This thread gives Race-baiters power. You are dupes. (Me too.)

[The Conservative]

Race is a power grab. Every time you talk about it, you give the Race-baiters power. This thread gives Race-baiters power. You are dupes. (Me too.)

LBJ's words still ring true today because of it.

[kybkh]

I am trying to develop empathy beyond my current level of understanding.

I have been so long removed from a metropolitan area that I have no idea where this generation of African Americans is coming from.

The flowers on his head show me something is different with the black culture than the last time I was receiving high levels of exposure.