canpakes wrote:Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I want commitments from the White People on this board that truly believe White Privilege exists today to follow through on requests 1-6.
Who is willing to put their White Privilege where their mouths are at?
- Doc
You keep framing this in a way that states that white people have to
give up some specific thing to POC, as if a handout of some type would fix the problem anyway. That’s not the solution. The example that I gave above doesn’t suggest that any white folks line up to transfer their property to anyone. All that it asks for is that the system, when and where possible, is made to provide an equality of opportunity and consideration that reaches across different demographics when the out group is doing what it can to play by the rules that sometimes were written to exclude them.
And even so, as pointed out by EA, even this simple strategy isn’t a requirement. It’s just the decent and human thing to do. How hard is it to do that?
Maybe Ceeboo or ajax can share some stories about how acknowledging the existence of white privilege has adversely affected their lives. I’d be up for that.
It ain't my idea. I embedded a Nelson Mandela quote in one of my statements, which I find curious no one could identify, and I posted the request from a BLM leader. And you are, in fact, asking me to give up the advantages I enjoy individually as a White Male, whatever they are, because apparently no one can damned list them off for me or refer me to some sort of commonly recognized White Privilege schemata. You're also asking, presumably, that I give up opportuntiy to someone based off the color of their skin, and you're asking me to subsidize executive order, government contracts, promotion slots, jobs, and educational opportunities based soley on skin color, gender, and probably sexual orientation, not necessarily in that order. This requires money and resources taken from my group, I guess, and handing them to other groups because you're telling me we're all in a 100M sprint and my starting line began at the 80M mark because I'm White, male, and incredibly good looking. Nevermind that due to all the aforementioned attempts at equalizing our starting points, meter by meter pushing my starting line back while pushing oppressed groups forward, I'm still guilty of having an unfair lead. Doesn't that give you pause for one moment?
I suspect that I'll always be guilty of having a lead, even if my starting point is moved outside the stadium, and their starting point begins at the finish line.
- Doc
I see Lemmie refuses to answer the scenario in question. Noted, not surprised, but noted.