I live Appalachian mountains. I dare someone to tell me im privileged ill show u why they call us rednecks. We grow a garden we raise cows we dont complain. We don't have our hands out we help each other ur kids hungry bring em over we have a fish fry or something.. we don't have government housing.. we dont have socail services building i havnt been to gbe doc in 15 years and ive broken bones had covid and had a gash on my arm that i glued together.. yell at me about privilege i dare u .. we have both parents and we still broke
@hollywoodswagga478 Appalachian here.. That's still a blanket statement.. It's all about your image and Where you are.. I'm dark of the Injun kind, therefore not Black, but see if I get the "benefit of the doubt" first, when I'm in the wrong part of town, or talking to upscale Club members, or talking to the Opposite (wrong) political party..
Yes I read that they demanded he go and repeat the study again because they believed he'd not done it correctly so he did it three more times using diferent people to collect the information and it still came out the same! Then he was threatened to not publish the findings thankfully to his credit he refused and still published anyway which really angered the head and she fired him. The reason is simple the idea of institutionalised racism is extremely profitable and useful to lots of people in high places and must be maintained at all cost. Like affirmative action! Which is just another word for racism.!
The police basically kill men. All over the world but in the uk and us its any and all men in lots of necessary and stupid careless ways, focus in the media on the minority of a group helps to hide the bigger problems.
So sad to hear. I had an uncle who was shot, stabbed and robbed near college park GA, because he was white. Oddly nobody saw a thing and nobody was prosecuted.
Seriously? I'm sorry for your loss. I hope somehow this is exposed and that people's actions regarding this injustice will come to light. That's a tough experience to deal with.
August 10th 2016, Tony Timpa (white male ) killed in very similar circumstances to G Floyd. No riots, no kneeling, no criminal charges no white privilege.
I grew up with an outhouse and no running water. 1st member of my family born in a hospital, 8 of us living in a 3-room shack. Kinda tired of getting told to check my privilege.
Same here! I told someone when I was about 18 about growing up using an outhouse & an outdoor pump (the kind with a handle you actually had to prime & pump. They called me a liar!
@lorastra6975 no. We don't mean all white people. That's silly. "Privilege" is only "privilege", because only a few people have it. If everyone has it, then it wouldn't be a "privilege". When you go to area's where black people tend to live on mass, like major cities and the surrounding suburbs. White people in those areas tend to be more privileged than black people in those areas. Systemic social processes have been in play to push blacks towards underachieving while pushing whites to over achieve. But not all whites make it all the way up, while not all blacks stay down. But the whites still tend to end up in more positions of power than blacks, and there are certain levels of power that black people don't have and will continue to be excluded from. And with this power comes the PRIVILEGE of giving preferential treatment THAT GIVES MORE PRIVILEGES to the types of individuals that the people in power prefer... White people in power tend to give preferential treatment and privileges to white people... There are more white people in power in America than black people... So therefore White people in these geographic areas tend to have more privilege... This does not take into account white people who don't live in these areas, so therefore we are not talking about them when we mention white privilege... I hope you read all of that, because maybe it will help you better understand what "white privilege" actually means.
I live in Eastern Kentucky and I have seen poverty the likes of which most of you probably haven't. That is why hearing about white privilege makes me a little sick.
When my daughter graduated the only college grants available were for black and brown folks. It broke my heart seeing her eyes being opened to the fact that simply because she was white, she need not apply... Her innocence was stolen and the reality was deeply felt, it even made her feel a little shaded in a way. Her entire high school career she was a honor roll, was even in gifted and talented classes, she volunteered during holidays, and had perfect attendance every year and she really wanted the recognition for her hard work. We all believed that she would be offered scholarships and sadly nothing. Zero. She was made to attend online courses... Racism is real and white people are affected by it. Period. If grants and scholarships couldn't consider race, then at least all kids would be equally in the running and based on their merits alone had an equal chance at having a college degree.
Same happened to me. Athlete High SAT High GPA Honor Roll with a lot of community service. My counselor told me to apply for black/brown scholarships anyways, and I ended up getting 3 because no one else that applied qualified academically to receive them.
It's going to get worse. Since we got people from the third world countries coming here. They are already moving up in positions to help their people. See them taking over streets with their business. Where they hire their own people. All these people would get mad if whites only helped their own people.
We're Asian, when my bro graduated highschool they took a grant he had qualified for and gave it to a Haitian kid that ended up barely squeaking by. When we attended his graduation, the number of grants given to all these kids of a specific race was pretty eye opening.
White guy here, living in a 700000 home. Started out on my own from my family of origin first living in a shed behind a friends house, then as a dealer in an apartment, then lived on a porch and in my car, then squatted in a house in foreclosure, then a series of cheap apartments and rooms for rent. Finally saved to buy my first home, now Im in my third. The whole time working one or more low wage jobs and attending a community college, until I could get skills and better work. Even now, I work all day mostly, every day. No "privilege" for me. Ever. Just labor.
White guy here, living in a 630,000 home. Last born in a family of 13 other brothers and sisters where growing up always eating the cheapest food being sold because parents had to feed and pay for raising many children. I started working at the age of 12 at the schools to help pay for my school expenses. When in college I was denied free tutoring because of my skin color then when working at UPS was denied the option to apply for a manager position because of my skin color. Father and schools did not prepare me for the real world. Bought my first home after many years of saving money when others took vacations each summer. I'm still waiting for that white privilege to arrive for me.
Wow, congratulations on such an achievement that gives me hope that no matter how bad it seems right now, if you work honest and hard, you will be successful. Thank you for that.
I've put up with a lot as well. Same with my wife. Each job we put up with led to a better job. Graduated from college at 34. Now retired, grandchildren, great grandchildren, home, garden, fruit trees, garden, truck, boat, 825 credit rating, no debt and a dog I walk a thousand miles a year. It was all worth it.
I would like to cash in my white privilege card please? Where do I go exactly to do this? I had talked to my landlord about this whole “rent” thing and how I wasn’t even supposed to be paying it because I’m white, but she looked at me like I was a little green alien. I went to the bank and gave the teller a little wink and nod, whispered “just give me whatever I’ve got in my white privilege account kind sir” and he dang near called the police because apparently, he thought I was robbing the joint because this white privilege account is not a thing. I tried it with the local law enforcement when I got pulled over for speeding, but all that happened was they called me an idiot and cited me for speeding. I was at the grocery store and filled my cart to the gills and as I was almost out the door, I was stopped by loss prevention. I let them know it was all just a misunderstanding, and rolled up my long sleeve shirt and showed them my arm, so that my skin would let me be on my way, and all that happened was that I was called an idiot and trespassed from the property. So again, going back to my original inquiry, where the heck do I go in order for this apparent privilege will actually work? The news and talking heads are all saying that I have this privilege, but everywhere I go and everything I try to use it for, in the end I’m called an idiot and end up paying money for even alluding to the privilege that literally everyone is saying I have. Is there like a office I go to?
Dont pay, blame others, steal thinking they owe you, run away or argue its their fault for pulling you over. Must be the man. Everyone is against you after all. 😂
If you come to me as a black, affirmative action collage kid spouting off about "white privilege," my response would be, I wasn't racist until just now.
Which race created the affirmative action policy? Black people are not running the senate, house, nor presidency. Since Obama, policy that benefited black people has been rolled back. No fuss. Just watching as usual. The fuss was at the capitol building on January 6.
@wano2363 Exhibit A: In 2022, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs admitted that it has been discriminating against black veterans for decades in regard to disability benefits. Exhibit B: In 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted that it has been discriminating against Black taxpayers.
I somewhat disagree. They have been brainwashed. They don't have parents that teach them anything about the actual history of this nation. They only have their version of reality that is fed to them through TV, movies, mainstream media... Tell a lie over and over again, it will finally be seen as the truth
I grew up 70 miles from Penn State in a coal mining town. It was very impoverished. I knew families that were generational welfare recipients. When I joined the U.S. Army, I was talking about the generational welfare families I grew up with. I was called a racist for talking about welfare recipients and the push to make them work during the Clinton years. I was so confused and explained their were no black peoples in my town. My Black friends were dumbfounded that White people were poor. I ended up getting my Master’s from Penn State and wrote my Master’s paper on how Appalachian Culture is ignored in Multicultural Courses. The sad truth is that many in State College, PA will never explore outsideof Happy Valley and stop in those small towns to visit those living in the mountains around them.
Same story with me. Dirt poor, never knew when the new meal was. Started working at 12 to support our family. It was only until I went to college and graduated that I finally pulled myself out Of the poverty level. We Are!
I grew up poor most of my extended family were also, trying to figure out where my privilege other than being born in America came from. Did you happen to see Joe Biden in the coal mines? He said he was a hard coal miner? :)
As long as people bury their heads in the sand of course they can't see reality,and is it just they are not around those things or is it do to they refuse to see it? I'm 68, I grew up in Indiana where there were families I knew the kids grew up with them. They had dirt floors, had outhouses, didn't have electricity, walked everywhere rain or snow cause no car. It was rural! They were white and Mexican families!!
I'm white. Been homeless. Son passed away. Got a strike and felony for something I never done. I struggled and put myself through college for HVAC. I struggled and struggled. No hand outs or help. No affirmative action for me. But I made it.
I find it rather intriguing that I, as a Roofer, seem to have a better command of the English language then these college students. On second thought, I actually find it troubling.
One small correction, sir. You have a better command of the English language "than", not then. I agree with your point though. I am by strict standards "uneducated", having only acquired my GED years after being robbed of my ability to graduate by a corrupt school system. I'm flummoxed by the numbers of idiots with degrees that I run into in person, and see online on a regular basis. I am NOT saying that's the rule, just that it's becoming the norm. There are obviously intelligent, competent people fortunate enough to attend college and pursue a field they have aptitude for. Just that there is a noticeable uptick of those that I speak of, especially when many of these professional positions are becoming vacant as people retire or literally die their way out of them. When you see people with degrees that SHOULD be getting those jobs but aren't, that's a bad sign.
I’m also a carpenter who didn’t make it past 9th grade and I seem to communicate much better than most of the college educated young people I see on videos and meet in person. It IS troubling, I agree.
Someone needs to do it,our government is brainwashing black folks into thinking it's us white folks that is keeping them oppressed,if anything, percentage wise id say there is more white folks than black folks under the poverty line,we live in an age where you have a whole lot more advantages as a low income family if you are a black person than if you are white,just look at the laws
HE didnt mention that blacks get harsher sentences because they had more crime on their rap sheet. Also needs to mention all the blacks that get away with murder. Michael White, Joni Donley, Michael Hancock, to name a few.
It's obvious that the young people sitting on the desk were uncomfortable by this conversation. We are all uncomfortable, but this sort of reasoned, non hostile conversation is what's needed.
Absolutely agree, I keep telling friends we are in times when we NEED to be having serious, important, uncomfortable and even difficult conversations, and it's one of the many reasons I feel there's been all this focus in not only hamstringing and ultimately destroying our culture and common habits of communicating and talking with each other, our neighbours, people we encounter while out and about going about our day. But also all of these groups who often explode into a tirade of abuse, threats, blackmailing, threats of cancellation etc. All of this stuff that drives a wedge between us.
@travr6 Always remember no study has ever found college students are more intelligent than non college graduates. The only thing a study found was college raises your IQ by 10 points. But dumb as rock isn't much when it's raised to average.
I never thought about the fact that the majority of poor people in a majority white country would be white! That's too much of a high thought for me! I have a college degree from an ivy League college! I never learned to read things before I signed them!
As a white man I'd receive a longer sentence from a black judge than a white judge. And God forbid I get a black jury. I'm fucked before the trial even starts
My white husband grew up in poor deep southern Mississippi, and it's insulting to have someone look at him and assume that he was fed with a silver spoon or had a leg-up because of his skin color. I, as a black woman, had an easier life, access to better education, access to opportunity, a stronger family system, and even a healthier family than he did. We were also poor, but he was in poverty.
I think it has to do with constantly being told what you can or can’t say and cancel culture overall. They are so guarded in their speech that it affects their thought pattern.. and it’s sad.
It seems like the Prussian model our public schools are based on fails to cultivate critical thinking. Its implementation was standardized to prepare as many people as possible for factory work. It really hasn't changed at all since the 19th century. I agree, college students have substandard elocution. Treating students as lemmings and teaching them what to think not how to think has left generations rudderless. I pray for our students.
so, when people spew crap about racism you have to do what this professor does question and show statistics. You have to make people think and plant seeds.
Three rich liberal people speculating about the lived experience of someone like myself and not having any idea what my experience has been while throwing out that our anger is why we vote for Trump is outrageous.
Trump is a rich liberal who donated his entire life to the Democratic party - and chose to run under the Republican banner and say whatever is necessary to convince you he's "one of you". He's a life-long con. If you did your research on his past, you'd know this. You should look at RFK... This isn't a slight on you. Trump said he'd drain the swamp, and then let a Pfizer rep run the FDA. can you explain how that's draining the swamp? His pick for the FCC was a corporate lawyer from Verizon. Just as two examples. He throws everyone under the bus to protect himself. Which would include the country. It's not about left and right. this conversation around race isn't about left or right. these "rich liberals" only speak for themselves. They don't speak for everyone. That's a generalization.
Almost everyone I know who voted for Trump did so because they are sick of the corruption and liberals saying that they are sick of corruption while voting to give more power and money to the corrupt.
@@BasedOkie The liberals are the ones, mostly, who say they are sick of corruption yet still vote to give the corrupt more power and money. Trump voters thought they were voting for some form of retribution.
I grew up very poor. There were times when we were homeless, lived in my mom's car, and lived in nasty hotels where my mom got a room by sleeping with one of the cleaning people. In some of the places we couldn't afford both electricity and running water at the same time or gas so we could have hot showers and cook. Then, as an adult, I've had people look down on me and say nasty things about me having white privilege because I'm a white female when they know nothing about my life. They weren't there when I was growing up. One of those same people also was super nice and praised one of our Puerto Rican coworkers who grew up with wealth because his family was able to lift themselves up even though the guy said his parents also came from wealth. That Puerto Rican guy told us he had never experienced poverty, yet he was praised for not being poor while I was ridiculed for being white because, according to the first guy, I had it better than both of them. I pulled myself out of a terrible situation, but I don't want praise, I don't want acknowledgment. What I want is people to stop making assumptions based on skin color and gender. Just because someone is black, Hispanic, or any other minority doesn't automatically mean they grew up impoverished, and just because someone is white doesn't mean they grew up in wealth. Making assumptions is dividing our nation instead of bringing people together, and things won't get better for anyone until we stop doing it. Provide help and support for people who need it regardless of race or gender. It is painful to pull myself up out of poverty only to be told that I always had it better just because I'm a woman and I'm white. It makes things worse when I'm told all the issues other races have are my fault and that nothing I do or say can fix it.
The media is to blame for all this. When you live in real life. You would know we are all the same in the struggle. Trying to provide a good life for our families. Doesn’t matter if your white black Hispanic purple or blue 😊
What's interesting is as a white person I've got to live in both the poor white part of a town and the poor black part of a town. Both parts believed that their misfortune wasn't due to anything they did or did not do, it was because of some external force (ex. it was because of rich white people or it was because of minorities taking all the benefits). Both sides had the exact same problems, the only difference was who they blamed. But they both blamed someone other then themselves.
Funny that when the professor tells them most poor people here are white, the kid goes immediately to the “I am blessed” and “didn’t go down the wrong path” as if that has anything to do it. And “it’s cool to see a stat like that “? Cool? The only thing difficult to believe is that this is university. It sounds like junior high.
Yeah and when the professor asks him what poor white students would think of him as a privileged black male living at Penn State, he said it must suck to be them
The majority of the list of country singer came out of the cotton fields and coal minds. and that is how some of the children got out of the housing projects and ghettos by using sports as a way out.
Hell, Doctors Ben Carson and Thomas Sowell both came from very poor backgrounds. One became a surgeon, the other one of the preeminent economists of the late-Twentieth and early-Twenty-First centuries.
@@JanetYoung-k5k That's the reason why singing about poverty, farming, and country life is so prevalent in the genre, even if a good number of the current artists don't have that kind of background. The early greats often did. Honestly, any early female country star (Dolly and Reba being two example) should also receive some recognition for pushing boundaries in a male dominated industry (especially when they were starting out)
"People have this idea that black people just make excuses for bad black behavior..." Interesting when alot of people naturally come to the same conclusion independently.
When people show me what they do to stop bad "black behavior," then I will gladly reject the claim "black people just make excuses for bad black behavior." Unfortunately, there isn't much of that evidence going around.
That is the true villain in all this. When a population, race not mattering, grows up in an enviorment, most are going to only know that as there way. I have watched women that tell there daughters to quit school, get knocked up and get on welfare so they can cover her because with the daughter hitting 18, mom does not get the checks any more and she needs to do it to keep them from being thrown out. How can anyone do better when they have to put everything you can into survival.
I think poor people don't get to experience things. The kids don't know what is available to them or something they want to do might cost a lot to get into.
Statistically, poverty does not cause poor behavior. Poor behavior causes poverty. There are far more areas that are poor with good acting people in the community then for there to be a community of bad acting people that isn't poor
The MSM is a big part of it... in *what* they choose to cover... and *how* they choose to cover it (the language/terms/spin that they inject)... and sometimes even more importantly, what they choose *not* to cover. The latter item is particularly relevant to the conversation in this video. The MSM doesn't care about poor white people, so they don't cover it. When the "popo" delete someone, it only gets covered if he was black...
The media's portrayal of poverty often misrepresents it as predominantly affecting black and Hispanic communities, neglecting the significant poverty in rural white areas like Appalachia. This selective coverage perpetuates a victim mentality among minorities and overlooks broader economic issues, fueling racial tensions and misunderstanding. By focusing only on urban poverty, the media uses this narrative as a tool of ideological subversion, undermining societal unity and distracting from the systemic reforms needed to address poverty across all demographics. This approach prevents an actual, unified and effective response to poverty, essential for societal equity and coherence.
The image of poor blacks living in a city that has immense wealth portrays a false image of racism and wealth inequality. It sells. Poor white people predominantly live in rural areas so their lifestyle isn’t highlighted within the media.
I watched a programme about the American diet that focused on the Appalachians and it was honestly horrific. I didn’t think anyone lived like that in the west (I’m English).
Spot on! If we're fighting amongst ourselves, we're not focused on them. The true oppressors are the ruling elites. As they scurry around like cochroaches gobbling up all the wealth, they trick us into fighting each other to distract us from what they are doing. Wake up.
Work ethic and morality are NOT the sole things that determine whether or not youre impoverished … Don’t get too self-righteous and forget that theres still quite a bit of context and geographic realities that need to go along with what youre saying… Morals have nothing to do with the issue of poverty, and work ethic is needed, yes… but when you live in an area where there is no work to really be had… dont just assume that it automatically means someone is immoral and has no work ethic…
They are two of the biggest factors regardless of geoography. I live in one of those areas, if you do not have drive, good morals , and a good work ethic. You will not go through the struggle required in a tiny job market to live a decent life. I see many around me lay on the couch and blame everyone and anyone for the state of thier lives, sell drugs, steal, and live a self fufilling of despair and bitterness that has destroyed so many people i know. It is hard to be a good moral person today, it takes a strong heart to not give in to the anger and despair that causes so many poor people to give up. These same people make every effort to belittle and degrade you on your way to your 2nd job, or call you a sellout or snob for caring about your home and career. These thingd matter alot , and the geography a person is born in is an easily overcome obstacle. The bus runs everday, but it takes a desire to be better and a leap of faith to get on it.
- *"It’s called work ethic and morals"* According to black Marxists within our education system, those two things are products of white supremacy and are therefore racist lol
@@bullthatsalive9111 There are areas where all the job openings are filled, and unless you're willing to move, zero reserve resources and all, to a completely new area, there ARE NO JOBS AVAILABLE. Then maybe you can get a job in asbestos abatement, or mold removal, or crime scene clean-up, mainly because those jobs shorten your lifespan significantly. You need to list where you went to school on your resume, and that in many cases will "out" you as coming from a depressed economic area, which says "poor white trash" regardless of your actual socio-economic situation. Socially, saying you're from a rural area will doom you socially in many situations.
I'm a white woman who grew up on welfare, learned to short grift at the age of twelve to make money and have worked very, very hard to have the things that I do now and I'm still living paycheck to paycheck.
I seen several of these videos where this professor is trying to have a conversation with the so-called educated students? It sounds like these young students don’t know or can’t have a conversation like grown-ups at their age” they respond like if you’re having a conversation with six and seven-year-olds? They are slow to respond, slow to express what they are thinking” totally having a problem about the information they are just hearing from this professor? they are just so disconnected from reality of life and from others from around the country on how other races live and the problems they are going through? No wonder why it’s so easy for them to vote for the Democrat party? They don’t stand on solid ground on their own.. They are struggling to comprehend the information they are receiving.
It’s not their faults, they’re being failed by society and the “education system”. They’re indoctrinated by far left ideology from academia, bombarded by far left ideology on social media and fed a very particular narrative by mainstream media.
An instructor who teaches by Socratic method. The difficulty in thought that you are illustrating is probably due to a few factors. The uncertainty comes from exploring new ground and insecurity when challenging information that they have been fed (likely their entire life). In this it doesn't necessarily matter what conclusion is made at this point. These students are learning something valuable. They are learning to question and think for themselves. Politicians don't want a population who question, digs deep, reasons.
I was actually born in a trailer park years later my grandmother moved into that trailer park and she could not afford the upkeep on the house. There was not one brown or black person I ever remember seeing in that entire trailer park. They were all white people now that’s not saying there weren’t any minorities in there, but I never remembered seeing one white people and all poor, but the guy nailed the video only talks about minorities being poor, not the white people that are just as poor all across this country
poor blacks prefer inner city. poor honk keys prefer the boonies. in the city u have close proximity to social svcs. in the boonies they gotta fend for themselves. it's just the nature of the 2 species. ghettos vs honk keys
Not so sure about that.. he's a dem voter, a lifer. Just my gut. He cares for these kids, but only after they leave the womb. Again, just a gut feeling but I'd bet $100 on it.
I decided to retire in West Virginia, and there are a lot of poor people here. I have to say I have lived all over this country, and these are the nicest most giving people I have ever met in my life.
That’s a learned skill mostly. And the opposite is currently being taught in schools. Being intolerant of intolerance is a complete shutdown of understanding and conversation. When I see Maxine Waters say “if you see anyone opposed to your political thinking (anyone who voted republican or for Trump) you stand up and yell at them and make scene at a department store, at a grocery store, at a gasoline station. You get out and start crowding them and shouting them down and you make sure that they do not feel welcome anywhere anymore”. When I see ad hominem being used instead of a genuine push back on an idea (which I see often), that is a tool to shut down conversations. It’s truly sad that children are taught these types of behaviors from the actions of those around them and society rewards ignorance and actual intolerance. I’m not surprised at what I see at college campuses now. Extreme ignorance extreme language extreme behavior extreme intolerance of any idea that doesn’t align with yours extreme feelings instead of logic extreme coddling…. It baffles me that people will go into extreme debt in order to enter such inhospitable, toxic, hateful, radical environments. Our youth has been taught all of this weaponized language and attitudes and in the name of acceptance, tolerance, and love. It’s quite machiavellian.
I lived in the mountains of nc for well over a decade and I got plenty of stories of poverty from my friends back on the mountain. I know one guy who had to bury his own father because his family did not have money for a funeral. Another guy I worked with who was from West Virginia told me about his neighbors who arranged a marriage for their daughter to another neighbor in exchange for a donkey to pull a plow for their garden. Some people hear that story and laugh because they don’t think about the reality of their situation. People just don’t know what they don’t know
I was a family of 11. I was white. And trust me I was never privileged. I lost my mom at twelve. My dad was a drunk. My sister was 18teen. And I thank she did a amazing job
Same. And those black and brown people I’ve been nice to while in the city have either looked at me with anger, have tried to rob me or have physically assaulted me without provocation. I’ve stopped being nice. White people didn’t make me feel some type of way, the black and brown people have by the way they have generally treated me.
Well, i see my comment was deleted… as usual. Basically, I said that i also don’t live in the city but, when i go there I’m not nice to them anymore because they have been violent towards me far too many times when i have been nice and did absolutely nothing to provoke them.
@@kevinsedwards Actually, LEFTY WHITES, and some Liberal Whites are Racists towards Blacks. They think they are less than them...For example. They think Blacks Can't get Driver License, or Just an ID as much as the Whites...Lets peel back the layers. They think Blacks don't have the ability to get the driver license or an ID because they are LESS CAPABLE.
To have common sense now of days is unfortunately not easy, there is a maze of indoctrination and woke politics these kids have tp hurdle through. Worst part is I don't even feel bad for them because I know they will be the problem eventually. If not already
A co-worker of mine, white girl, lived in the south, dirt poor and lived with dirt floors in her house. I was homeless as a kid but man she was POOR lol
I am glad that I had good parents and a reasonably good upbringing, But there's virtually nothing that I can do about the family structure of black people. When I was in the military, I worked with black people nearly every day. I worked for a black supervisor for 2 years and there were black people in my 'shop'. I have no beef with people over the color of their skin. I am middle/upper middle class and white - and what the hell can I do about that?
Family structure of black people ??? You think all black families are all messed up ??? All across america ??? Come on man,you're smarter than that. I hope.
@@kerry-j4m Your emotions aren't facts, and a simple Google search can give you the correlational stats you question, but OP merely mentioned black family structure; you mentally filled in the blank of what you already thought that consisted of. 🤷🏾♀️
@@kerry-j4m I'm talking about the claim that I have "White privilege". So doesn't that imply that I had advantages over minority families? So I'm referring to the left's claim against me. I didn't create that claim. My inference is that money and income are not the primary reason for escaping bad outcomes in life...
@@nrsimmons178 Not going on emotions,just common sense. Google search doesn't mean you've seen every black family in america or that you've actually sat down and talked to a black family.Which would give you a whole different perspective of a black family. You're falling for the banana in the tail-pipe narrative.
Why is it that someone assuming a black person might be a criminal is more upsetting to people like this than the high percentage of criminals in their population who give others that impression? Seems to me like their anger is misplaced. Worse, the culture not only embraces but protects the criminals. You rarely hear anyone focusing on that criminal behavior. Instead, the finger gets pointed at the people who call it out. We’ve come to the point where even pointing out the crime statistics is seen as racist! You’d think the high level of criminality would be more upsetting than the people who make assumptions based on evidence. To excuse it they blame white people and poverty. As if being poor makes you a criminal. 🙄
The best part is he is willing to play both sides. He fixes them to think. Where an u getting information? What assumptions am I making? How did the other side feel? Producing young people who can ask those questions is far more important than trying to force them into a pigeon holed political affiliation. Most ammericans are moderate, but the most vocal ones are to the extremes politically.
I was in the military with a guy from Kentucky whose family was dirt poor. When he would go home on leave he would spend the whole time trying to fix their roof from falling in using trees cut down cause they got no help from any grants or any DEI shit. I thought growing up in the hood was poor. But he was really poor. I had a TV growing up. He didn’t.
The poorest American is richer than 70 percent of the world. We are all privileged as Americans, and the sooner we see that the politicians will lose their minds.
A dollar is worth different things in different countries. $15,000 a year salary in America is poverty but the same amount in say, Egypt lets you live like a Pharaoh.
@CrabTastingMan It's not about money it's more about opportunities. Things that we take for granted are luxuries in other countries. People risk their lives just for those opportunities that we don't appreciate. Americans are the most privileged people on this planet. Where else can you waste time talking about what a woman is?
Sure, a penny has more value than a seashell. But, that’s not how we measure poverty. There’s a global standard for defining poverty and there shouldn’t be ANY in America. But, shamefully, there is. And you think politicians will “lose their minds” if people adopt the belief that they’re privileged to even get the scraps… in the wealthiest nation on the planet… where poverty is allowed to even happen? Lol No. no no no no no.
@isJudgingYou In America, poverty is a state of mind. Once we realize that we are not victims and that we hold all the power because that is how America is structured. The people can make the politicians do their job. That's the reason they want to get rid of the 1A and 2A.
@@adriannamoreno8649 if you can say with a straight face that “poverty is a state of mind”, then you’ve NEVER been poor. Going hungry isn’t in your head and we have PLENTY of hungry, underfed, and undereducated children in this country. We have rural communities that truly lack resources and are deeply impoverished. But, we can keep lowering the standards for what we define as “poverty” as you’d like…Kinda like we lower the standards for what it means to be “literate”. Problem solved.
Well, that's nonsense. Find where a well paying job has an entry position in a place where housing is affordable and go work 50-60 hours a week. You won't be rich, but you won't be poor. It's all about the labor and housing markets. Utah has the lowest wealth disparity in the US, so there is the least poverty and least super wealthy. Places like that have the most opportunity not to be poor. California has the highest wealth disparity with the least work opportunities and the highest housing costs.
White guy here, just got profiled THIS WEEK by police….literally wrote me a ticket without even checking my registration papers cause I called him out….black privilege is out of hand…
I have lived in the Appalachian and on the coast. Around 2:40, you begin the conflate "rural" or outside of the inner city with white people. While it is predominately white people, I can tell you, there are still pockets of black communities, especially in the South. Do not fall into the same trap as the students. The issue is rural vs. urban. It is a rhythmic tune we in the South understand. The media and race-baiting democrats only care about urban areas because they get the biggest bang for their buck with concentrated populations.
“Who comes to mind” was the right way to frame the question. The poor will always be with us according to the eternal wisdom of the Bible. Identifying obstacles that can be reduced (assuming they exist) is good but the person has to grab the life preserver. Then they need to be taught the basics and understand consistency to practice daily, simple things like make your bed, clean your room, door your dishes , do your homework, graduate, get a full-time job, work hard, save some money, fall in love, get married, don’t have a child out of wedlock. I know plenty of lower class people that lived this way and had contented lives.
My white male husband had excellent grades in high school in math and science; plus he scored very high on the SAT, really stratospherically SAT high score. By any standard he should have been admitted to M.I.T.' he was clearly qualified by the standards held by M.I.T. for generations. However, he had the misfortune of applying during a time in which a whack-a-doodle women in charge of admissions. The woman skewed all admission to women and POC. He made himself a success anyway, but, he lost out to a woman or a POC. He was penalized for being white and coming from a middle class intact family.
Another problem with these statistics on income levels is that most of the programs used in our society to “help” people are not counted as income. So who is better off, the guy working 50 hours a week making 50k a year or the welfare queen abusing the system getting 100k in benefits. Free healthcare, free housing, free food, free education etc …. Btw, the poor chump working is helping pay for these people that are abusing the system. It’s quite disgusting 🤮
This is an excellent teacher, both in the method of disarming the topic, and for trying to get the students to engage rather than just regurgitate what they believe the right answer is. For topics like poverty, it’s important because we don’t see the difference daily. But compare poor in Atlanta to poor in rural Appalachia, and the difference is almost impossible to reconcile.
He said something very important. "If I go doen yhe wrong payh". So it has nothing to do with color and everything to do with choices. Remember, you're born looking like your parents and you die looking like your life choices.
There is a very small group of white people who have as their interest to place on race of people in conflict with their peers from a different race. It's a distraction that benefits the top few of the market that benefit.
I'm not surprised at all that poor whytes are ignored, whether rural or inner city, because to the powers that be, there's no story there. Liberal media will only interview them if there is weather devastation, a sensational event in their midst (like a pew-pewing/ revisting of waycist history literally no one wanted), or need a political foe to point to as "the problem" liberals need to vote against. I felt the conversation was a bit too delicate and leading, but I appreciate the professor allowing them to use critical thinking, which is sorely lacking in too many kids today.
We live in a rural area. We are not poor at all. Many liberals who move here are disappointed. 😅 They are shocked we dont fit their stereotypes. Our kids have survived/succeeded, and doing well. That just doesn't seem right to them.
@@scottowensbyable I was born and raised in Texas, lived and travelled throughout the south and the Midwest, and majority of the country lives in beautiful, scenic, rural areas. Liberals love to put labels on everyone to make them feel safe, so of course they think everyone in a rural area is poor. 🙄 I love bursting their little safe space bubbles! 🥰
They vote Republican. They only brainwash black people to keep them enslaved to the democrat voting plantation. They don't need your labor, they need your vote, and that is what they enslave them to.
3:40 If we're gonna apply the per capita arguement to crime (as you did at 11:00), we need to apply it to these poverty statistics too. That's only fair. Disappointed that these students didn't challenge this misleading aspect of the teacher's statistics. Here, I'll fix it for you: US population in 2020: 329.5 million Racial breakdown of 2020 US population: White: 61.6% or 203 million people Black: 12.4% or 40.8 million people Asian: 6% or 19.8 million people Hispanic: 15% or 49.4 million people American Indian: 2.9% or 9.6 million people Living in Poverty in the US - 2020 White: 15.9 million or 7.8% of all White people Black: 8.4 million or 20.6% of all Black people Asian: 1.6 million or 8.1% of all Asian people Hispanic: 10.4 million or 21.1% of all Hispanic people American Indian: 3.2 million or 33.3% of all American Indian people So... look at that. White people are the LEAST represented in poverty per capita. American Indians are the most, followed by Hispanic, closely followed by Black. In conclusion, you either don't understand your statistics or you're misusing them to make a point. Either way, ignorance or dishonesty, your confirmation biases are plainly evident.
Yes, there are a lot of white people in the poverty group and they are usually living in extremely rural areas and yes the black and brown communities are don't know this, because the focus is always on the more urban communities which have a higher population. I think its good to have these open discussions, so that all of our communities can understand the financial struggles that so many Americans are going through and come together with a better understanding. That being said, many elitists of all ethnicities don't really have a clue about the big picture and the struggles. They put their blinders on and go about their day, even the middle class Americans do this. I really hope that Biden and his extremely wealthy friends and "funders" had a great time at their fancy fundraising party talking about EVs and climate change that is costing billions of dollars, while our poor families, American citizens and worried that all they can feed their children that night is maybe Kraft mac and cheese and hopefully some milk. THAT'S THE REALITY OF THINGS MISTER PRESIDENT!!! Oh, while you were at your fancy fundraising event, Trump was visiting a bodega in NYC, where the DA tried to.prosecute the owner for shooting a robber. What kind of America are we living in right now? Shame!!!!
As a white guy, I grew up with the lower class. We didn't have much. I started working at 15 so I could bring some money into the family. I paid for my younger brother's student photos and lunches. I never got a high school picture, because I used the money to keep the power on. Joined the Navy, because college was not affordable for me. The Navy taught me how to study, read and apply myself. I still sent money back, but I sent it directly to my brothers, my mom would take the money and use it on her first. The 60's was not as fun as some people make it sound.
My white privilege was working all day in a minimum wage job and going to community college at night. Took me 10 years to get my BS. Finally, then I started making a decent wage. These kids need to be taught to not believe what they are told, but to get information and then investigate.
The most famous person who made it out of poor Kentucky was Abraham Lincoln. He grew up in a log cabin with a dirt floor. What changed his life was a stepmother who taught him to read Lincoln learned the law by studying books of law. The problem in America is, our children do not learn our History.
I've alluded to this EDUCATOR before...he is helping his students to learn how to think, NOT what to think. Critical thinking (not thinking critically) is essential for an education.
The Duck Dynasty father was once asked since he lived through the Jim Crow south if he was part of that. He said when you are working picking vegetables or cotton in the hot fields with others of every color doing the same for little money, there was no racism, everyone around him was equally poor.
It is not a “privilege“ to come from a two parent household; it is a deficit to come from a single parent household. A two parent household is the standard, it is the normal arrangement. It is not a privilege, it is the way things are supposed to be. Anything other than that is a disadvantage. While those coming from single parent households might be looking up at people coming from two family households and think that they are privileged, the reality is that those people coming from a single parent household have been dealt a bad hand by their parents who chose to procreate irresponsibly. I am sick and tired of hearing how when people live their lives the way they are supposed to live their lives (i.e., responsibly) and when they derive the outcomes that normally follow from living your life the right way, that they are “privileged“. That is simply not the case. They are not “advantaged“, but rather, they simply have not been “disadvantage“ by immature, irresponsible, self-centered, selfish parents who have placed their own needs (and often their own wants) ahead of their children‘s needs.
He certainly has a gift for relating to young people and helping them think. The left will come for him. Mark my words. They WILL come for him. The left cannnnnnnnot handle dissent or logical discussion.
