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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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All I can do is

Sympathy for white Austin bomber stirs debate about race

DEEPTI HAJELA
Associated Press

When a law enforcement official described a cellphone recording left by the Austin serial bomber as "the outcry of a very challenged young man," the remark caused an outcry of its own. Because the bomber was white, some people almost immediately questioned whether the same level of compassion would have been afforded a person of color ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sympathy...-183204054.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_16

This 2010 student ID photo released by Austin Community College shows Mark Anthony Conditt, who attended classes there between 2010 and 2012, according to the school. Conditt, the suspect in the deadly bombings that terrorized Austin, blew himself up early Wednesday, March 21, 2018, as authorities closed in on him, bringing a grisly end to a three-week manhunt. (Austin Community College via AP)

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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100% True.

Parkland: White privilege versus the black-brown plight
T.J. Legacy-ColeMy Word columnist


... Don't believe me? Think about all the unarmed black and brown people shot and killed by law enforcement. It doesn't resonate the same in this country as a mass shooting at a predominantly white school.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opin...t-white-privilege-to-work-20180323-story.html

T.J. Legacy-Cole (Courtesy photo)

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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And if that viewpoint is racist, they should be challenged , as stated, "their white privilege."

University students in Georgia forced to confess their white privilege

By Todd Starnes | Fox News

... “They are threatened. They are retaliated against all because of their viewpoint,” State. Rep. Earl Ehrhart said Wednesday on the Todd Starnes Radio Show.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...-forced-to-confess-their-white-privilege.html

State. Rep. Earl Ehrhart said some students at Kennesaw State University in Georgia were forced “as a condition of their grades to confess their white privilege in a video.”

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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... Stand Up.


Black Marjory Stoneman Douglas students want the movement to include their voices too

BY ALEX HARRIS

Eleven percent of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s 3,000 students are black, but you wouldn’t know it from the media coverage of the school’s horrific mass shooting in February or the gun control movement that sprung up in the aftermath. Black students gathered in Parkland Wednesday said they felt overlooked and underrepresented by both the media and their peers leading the charge for more gun control; and some of the solutions meant to keep them safer in the wake of a gunman slaughtering 17 of their classmates leave them feeling more afraid than before.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article207251449.html

Kai Koerber, 17, speaks about his experience as a black student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the wake of the school shooting in Februrary. Nadege Green WLRN

 

[HODEE]

At some point. We have to stop being distracted by Racism, and their call for "white privilege"
Benefits they receive is mostly unearned, but we continue to give them more opportunity to further take us off course and message.
I obtained a letter from a white guy that was written years ago. He was applying for work.
The letter didn't talk of qualifications, or experience. It only highlighted that he was a good guy.
For white america that still exist. Benefit of doubt, and passes on the ordinary things we get hampered by.

Look at the structure of america, it is how it is set up.
How to get out from most of it is to plan out some things to accomplish ( job, education etc ) and go after it.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-origins-of-privilege

The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel superior to poor blacks; during the civil-rights era, activists talked about “white-skin privilege.”

But the concept really came into its own in the late eighties, when Peggy McIntosh, a women’s-studies scholar at Wellesley, started writing about it. In 1988, McIntosh wrote a paper called “White Privilege and Male Privilege

Everybody has __a combination of unearned advantage and unearned disadvantage in life.
Whiteness is just one of the many variables that one can look at, starting with, for example, one’s place in the birth order, or your body type, or your athletic abilities, or your relationship to written and spoken words, or your parents’ places of origin, or your parents’ relationship to education and to English, or what is projected onto your religious or ethnic background.

We’re all put ahead and behind by the circumstances of our birth.
We all have a combination of both.
And it changes minute by minute, depending on where we are, who we’re seeing, or what we’re required to do.

In order to understand the way privilege works, you have to be able to see patterns and systems in social life, but you also have to care about individual experiences. I think one’s own individual experience is sacred. Testifying to it is very important—but so is seeing that it is set within a framework outside of one’s personal experience that is much bigger, and has repetitive statistical patterns in it.