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(01-03-2016, 01:06 AM)Vlad Wrote: You're missing the point. Who said this shit never happened? And who said whites never had an advantage?
To get you back on track, this has been about TODAYS so called "white privilege myth", not the 1960's.

"White privilege" is a recently coined phrase based on todays social conditions.

I'll try this once again.  You and that white guilt complex of yours continue keep telling blacks, (the younger the better) that have never had to sit at a blacks only lunch counter, that had never had to sit at the back of the bus, that have never been forced to drink at 'colored only' water fountains etc.. that they are victims in todays society.

And cool it with the name calling, it hurts your case.

We are less that two generations away from the CRA.

Let that sink in (if it can) when you spout off that TODAY'S minorities haven't been affected by the past.

Not only do you not understand what "privilege" means apparently you don't even know how long its been talked about.

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

Quote: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: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies,” which contained forty-six examples of white privilege. (No. 21: “I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.” No. 24: “I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the ‘person in charge,’ I will be facing a person of my race.”) Those examples have since been read by countless schoolkids and college students—including, perhaps, Tal Fortgang, the Princeton freshman whose recent article, “Checking My Privilege,” has been widely debated.  

And I didn't call you a name (although I apologize for hurting your feelings) I said if you believe because *I* never met someone who was lynched (and again, how could I?) that it didn't happen,or that racial discrimination doesn't happen today, then you are a special kind of stupid.