White Privilege?

[*PhilHos*]

(07-16-2018, 03:30 PM)jj22 Wrote: It isn't? Have you seen the number of police calls that are being made on innocent black people. It's a new thing, however it's not new at all, it's just now getting attention with social media and the ability to record.

Black kids can't sell lemonade without police being called, can't take their kids to the pool, cookout at parks.

Law enforcement officials are even coming out and saying they can no longer (finally after decades) keep up with these calls on behalf of people with "suspect" reasoning.

Do you think if these people were white they'd get the police called on them so much our law enforcement are finally speaking out on it?

People just don't care if it doesn't effect them and that's the unfortunate thing about all of this. If the majority didn't care about issues like slavery and jim crow laws, we'd still be in that era. It's easy to ignore, defend, excuse. It takes courage for the majority to take a stand on behalf of a minority people, and no it's not "white guilt", that's just some way to shame those who dare to care. A modern way of calling someone a "n" word lover (sorry, to bring that word into it, but that was a legit attack on white people who dared to care during the those tough civil rights times).

I get it. There are still racist assholes in this country that sees a black person in their neighborhood and calls the cops. It sucks. It shouldn't happen. But, that doesn't mean there's such a thing as white privilege. It just means there are still racists out there.