Life is a mountain we all have to climb. Not all of us summit, yet endeavor we must. Some people have a smooth and easier path to the top. Some have a steep treacherous rocky trail. Life isn’t easy. But we all have an opportunity to reach success. Some just have to work harder than others. Life isn’t fair.
When people are told every day at home, at school, on TV, from our politicians, that they fail solely because of their skin color, that creates an attitude of why bother? It creates envy. It generates hatred for those that are further up the mountain.
It does everyone a disservice, it cheats them. It ensures they remain in the shadowed valley.
I find that sad.
Hilarous coming from a white dude.
ReplyDeleteThank you for proving my point.
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ReplyDeleteNow, on to this: saw a video of some white and black kids and the speaker saying "if you had both parents when growing up step forward, (just whites stepped forward) if you were able to attend college step forward (just whites stepped forward) if you were well taken care of with proper health care step forward (just whites stepped forward) it went on along these lines for awhile until the white young people were way out front of all the black young people. Guess where I was, yep in back with the black people. Really not every white person has had the world handed to them on a silver platter. by the white if your Dad didn't stick around why is that because of white people?
It creates "learned helplessness."
ReplyDeleteWhen you get citizen arrested for jogging thru a neighborhood let me know
ReplyDeleteWhen 60 POC are run over while walking in a parade let me know
ReplyDeleteSee how stupid your comment is?
Are you really arguing that you should tell your children not to work hard and strive for success? That no matter what they will always fail because of the amount of melanin in their skin?
That is what it sounds like.
Your comment sounds like if you don't succeed its because your don't try. not that you were not picked because of the color of your skin or you were a female or transgender or gay. They had to make laws up to make sure that you were not. How many laws are there to make sure that if you are white and male that you are not discriminated against? Ummmm gee really. wake up you. you are so entitled you don't even know you are entitled.
ReplyDeleteYou miss the whole point. It is not about discrimination. It exists. I don’t deny it.
ReplyDeleteIt about how you rise to the challenges that life gives you, regardless of skin color. I know people who came from unbelievable poverty, yet still battled, studied, and worked to find success in life. Lots of them are white. So what?
Anyone who says you CANNOT succeed because of skin color or history or any reason at all is not helping. They are hurting, and to live a life without hope because teachers, parents, politicians, and race baiters tell you you are failure for any reason than not trying is evil.
That there are such people is sad.
It has nothing to do with entitlement. It is about attitude and effort. If you think I lived a privileged life you know nothing about my upbringing.
You think because there isn't more or any black or hispanic or women ceo, business leaders, rich, or presidents that its because they didn't try hard enough. That few if any break thru to succeed. You are the sad one. Yes you live a privileged life. You have warm home, cars, food, education, jobs, and the ability to post your thoughts and beliefs. you had have medical care, etc. And as a white male you had ability and opportunities that minorities and woman never would be given. No matter how they tried. Guess what they still tried. People tried to help, but the majority wanted them to be repressed for their benefit. Until you get real about that and stop posting your dribble about they just don't try you are part of the problem.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very simplistic view of it, I think. When white people say "I didn't have anything handed to me, I'm not privileged" - it doesn't mean you had it easy. It means you didn't have it harder solely because of the color of your skin. I'm a white woman, and one of my closest friends is black. We have sons the same age(16), except her son is autistic and non verbal. She lives in fear that some day a cop will think he's not complying and shoot him. I have never worried about that for one second.
ReplyDeleteThat's white privilege.
I concede it was White privilege that had me be the first person to graduate college in my family. It was the special scholarships only for white people and the white skin quotas that got me into a good private school, not my good grades. Of course it wasn’t that I started working at 14, or that I worked in factories and construction in the summers that paid for that education. It was given to me since I’m white. Those student loans were a figment of my imagination.
ReplyDeleteIt was my skin, not that I worked sixty hours a week in my first job learning everything possible. It was privilege that helped me parlay that experience into a better job where I worked to learn as much as possible, got promoted and worked even harder.
That got me a job offer to sales where I worked and worked to be the best in my company. I gained product knowledge that made me a global expert in my field, but that was just because of my lack of melanin.
That got me more money and promotions too. It had nothing to do with my hard work. The travel, being gone from my family; all a product of a lucky skin tone birth.
Sure. I guess you are right, my whole life is just privilege stemming from my skin color.
You don’t know shit about me, anonymous. What I have is through work and a pure determination to not fail. If you think anyone handed anything to me because of skin color you are a fool, an idiot, and a presumptuous ass.
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ReplyDeleteI never said discrimination does not exist I say that sitting home saying I can’t succeed because of my skin color is a bullshit excuse and a guarantee of failure.
you are a fool, and idiot and plain ass. If you think people just sit around complaining they can't succeed because of what ever. Ive seen plenty of white folk do the same so its not a color of the skin issue. Your stereo type of people of color just laying around complaining is disgusting. Most are out fighting to survive and do the best for their families as well. You just don't see them. For several reasons. but the biggest is that you make sure they aren't seen. Not in your schools, not in your neighborhoods, not in your social circles and to the best of your ability not at your job.
ReplyDeleteSince you know nothing, and I mean nothing, about me — where I live, work, or who my friends are, that comment makes you far more guilty of stereotyping than I ever was.
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure what jollies hanging out in your mom’s basement trolling blogs gets you, but good for you. Make sure you wipe off 5he keyboard when you ate done. But hey, keep at it, you keep everyone here entertained with your bullshit.