SpeedyVagabond

I wonder what she'd say or do if she read this. I wonder if she'd rise to the occasion and be the leader she wants to be and thinks she is after reflecting upon Mr. King's words. The NAACP has lost much of my respect over this whole affair.

GogglesPisano

This is probably what AA wished they could say.

As I said, at this point it's about making a deal.

itsmytime

At least you never tried to claim you're an anti-racist. Otherwise, you failed to see the irony in your own statement.

sACKtis

Colored people in the US are fine. Wanna see real racists go to Japan

deadseal

Sooo if I say I don't like racist people then I'm racist? How does that work? Do tell.

I can't wait until your grandkids have gender identity issues or marries someone that isn't white, republican, or Christian, and it blows your old stagnant geezer head clean off. Have someone take a video and post it on liveleak please

It must be fun to completey ignore white privelage. I dare you to spend a week in the projects. Otherwise you are just a little man standing on his little hill without a drop of empathy or a clue of historical facts and how they relate to distribution of wealth.

Clown

Slaphappy

There is no such thing, that's a weak excuses for success envy.

Also wealth is created.

Unpilot

Privilege is never perceived as such by those that have it.

As far as Wealth creation goes do you mean Wealth like our current resident of the white house created?

deadseal

Or do you mean the accumulation of wealth on the backs of slaves? Or Jim Crow? Did you ever read a history book bruh?

KSwift76

WOW! You honestly believe that White males are in positions of power because just in general they are more successful. I suppose it has nothing to do with the fact that you started about 400 years ahead and it wasn't until the middle of the last century that minorities even had an opportunity to play the game. Wow!

Here's the difference. I'm a minority male at a major airline. My father was a teacher not an airline pilot. His parents were college educated (grandfather was a principal (of a segregated high school) and grandmother was a professor (at an HBCU)). I would say pretty successful for Black folks in the early 1900's. However, there were certain "opportunities" that were not available to him...for example airline pilot. Dr, lawyer, teacher, farmer, and professor at an an HBCU were about his only options. That's what many people mean when mentioning that minorities start from behind.

Not complaining, just trying to enlighten some folks who think that everyone is born equal in this country with the same opportunities. Airline pilot was not an option until my generation...and my family was from Tuskegee, AL where there was a lot of exposure to aviation.

Slaphappy

Wealth is not a finite resource, it something created so it's not something that can be distributed.

As far as so-called privilege, the playing field was leveled legally and econimically a long time ago. There are many immigrants that come here with zero (my parents included) that are able to easily achieve much in one generation so the ancestral wealth for success line doesn't hold much weight. I dare say those that are perceived as marginalized have the real privilege as there is a push for diversity at all costs. In the end failure is almost 100% the result of life choices. In 2017 you can't use Jim Crowe as a reason anymore.