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Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)
Wed May 14, 2014, 03:42 PM May 2014

Okay I am wading into this "Privilege" discussion...

As a member of a very diverse family.. we experience different realities and reactions. My son and I are different races.. and I tend to hit first and ask questions later when it comes to my child. But he most assuredly experiences different reactions when he walks into a room than I do.. make no mistake of that.

That does not mean you or I have done anything.. and we should not take on a blanket of guilt for someone elses behaviors. And I am applying that statement to everyone.

When the day comes that we can all be equally outraged at bad behaviors..we will have come a great distance.

But do not be afraid to call out racism, sexism, gender and cultural and religious bias when you see it.

Have we not lost enough people of who are outside the majority to violence?

Our history will be with us always.. we have to acknowledge that, there is a long long way to go folks before everyone feels a part of the American Melting Pot.



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Okay I am wading into this "Privilege" discussion... (Original Post) Peacetrain May 2014 OP
I am going to reply for personal reasons upaloopa May 2014 #1
What facet to the subject ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2014 #2

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. I am going to reply for personal reasons
Wed May 14, 2014, 03:55 PM
May 2014

Is it hard to think an old white guy like me knows about what you posted? Not that I know what it is being Black but the older I get the more I face negative bias toward old age.
I doubt that we will ever accept each other as equals for many prejudicial reasons.
But I am trying to live my life in such a way that I wish everyone well and I want my existence to be beneficial to all. I am far from there but I am on the path.
I see the privilege posts to be an expression of one person's view of life and a very limited view at that. Yet the poster feels that they have reached some enlightened place where they can now instruct others. Their narrow vision does not enable them to even consider that there are many facets to the subject.
Not that there aren't people who have denied privilege but that most of us who are given privilege know we have it.

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