We Took A White Privilege Test | Do Black People Have White Privilege? 

The writer: Hey can you answer these ambiguous questions so that I can determine if you are a privileged racist The reader: why are you thinking about these questions, what's wrong with you???

"White guilt" at it's finest.

YES! Whether the are black or white, they either feel guilty or victimized. It's like there are no other people out there! Then it's "african american". I had a roomate whose heritage wasn't even from Africa, but there are others folks who don't want to be called Black. I am Greek and Italian. I don't want to be called "white". They just bundle us. It's weird.

@@nicolehanes3442 Greek and Italian.. you white... or ancient times you would be White.. Im German and Irish.. Im white.... doesn't matter Where you come from.. it matters the color of your skin.. don't you get it. I got a friend.. dark as can be.. He's not African... he's South American.. but looks black.. maybe someone in his back ground there were blacks.. but he doesn't know... but other blacks... see him as black.

Indeed...

At Home Depot aren't you supposed to stay in your section? Meaning plumbing, gardening, lighting, appliances, etc. That's kind of crazy. Those sections aren't all that big.

@@Golf8802 Yes. We explained that to her. I believe the manager told the employee to stay off her aisle for a few mins to avoid any more issues.

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where i worked a black guy kept asking to swap days off which i did. one day i asked him if we could swap he said no way. a week later he again asked if we could swap i refused he reported me for racism thats how easy it is

@@dickturban8706 yep same experience here as well

It's driving us crazy too!! It's insane

@@BradLexCouchcast That's exactly what they want. Divide & Conquer. It's 🎶 sad but true 🎶 as Metallica would say.

@@BradLexCouchcast It seems like they are trying to drive a wedge between the races . They seem like they can't stand that when we actually compare ourselves like you did with this list we realize that we are not all that different and we all want the same things . Like MLK said judge someone by their character not the color of their skin.

I graduated in 99 and I can't remember a single time in my life that race was ever discussed until the last 10 years

We Americans share American privilege.

So true. So much of the stuff that comes out of the various social or "soft" sciences rely heavily on how people people feel or from stats that can be interpreted dozens of different ways. This subjective data lends itself to heavily biased conclusions and in the end the accepted "facts" are really just whatever ideas are most popular at the time. I'm personally skeptical of anything that can't be backed up by cold hard objective data.

Derek Bell and Louis Farrakhan believe that black people are "gods." We refuse to worship them as such, so we're "racists."

o7

I don’t think a check list could be made without bias.

I've traveled to more than 40 countries across 4 continents, Americans are so lucky.

The patriots are. Biden supporters in general seem to hate America. We is doomeded

Exactly

Down to the poorest American. You could take all i have away today. And i could work my way back starting the same day. It would suck. But it's doable in the US. Try that in any other country.

@@nobody617 we don’t hate America

They need to watch the Eddie Murphy "Saturday Night Live" skit where he masquerades as a white person for a day while wearing white makeup. He goes into the bank and gets the full white privilege treatment, lol.

@@ckobo84 Yes, because when black Eddie Murphy walks into a bank the teller immediately tells him to fuck off. (he said sarcastically)

@@ckobo84 you... you know that whole skit was written and rehearsed, ie: an act of fiction... right?

A few years ago I listened to a well-known spoken word artist, who was a guest at a large group meeting with our company. They asked "How many of you were brought up to not see color?" Several people raised their hands. As most of us played with ALL the kids in the (economic peers) neighborhood. The speaker then said it was wrong. (to not see color) Apparently to them, if you don't know the other's cultures and how they live in their house, you were racist? I thought, WTF? Nearly walked out. Stayed out of politeness until the first break. Didn't bother to come back. I'm probably racist now. /s

Not actually true though. If you shoot someone in the leg then pretend you don't see them limping and they ought to run the same rally ...like generational wealth.

@@crhu319 By your analogy, both Brad and Lex have been "shot in the leg"; meaning they've been severely disadvantaged in life. Yet neither of them seem to believe that. "Colorblind" has become a bad word, but it just means not using someone's skin pigmentation to make judgments about them. It doesn't mean ignoring history. It's very simple: Treat people as individuals, help those who need helping, deliver justice to those who deserve it, and if you want to know if someone has been shot in the leg, ask them.

yea the person who wrote the book white fragility says color bindless is a tool by white supremacy but really even with good intentions has segregation ever really benefited black people

@@TF-lk6co thinking someone had a disadvantage is a judgment we are have different levels of privilege if systematic racism has created more poor black people well poor people need more help and based on helping people who are poor that will systematic benefit black people the other ways around is just making racism again Its all about hard feelings and who can say can't blame black people for that but on the other hand the cure is not more racism the idea that black people can't make it is bullshit there are a ton of black people doing good much better then a lot of white people sadly time is not healing the wounds it just making it worse since social media sites are made to be addictive attacking one sense of person identity is profitable you get in this bubble where the algorithm is always telling you how bad you have it and it doesn't matter if that is true or not because the ones that push the narrative the hardiest are the ones the algorithm pick and its not just black people even though the cities burning but all so look at the right they stormed the capital people are refusing a vaccine this is shit you would never see before social media it has stuck people in a bubble telling them how they are victims in everything and anything all day long its got some people so bad they think the earth is flat and maybe they weren't smart to start out with but how could anyone smart enough to be a functional adult works and pays bills think the world is flat the answer the bubble it makes even sane people crazy and sadly black white left or right just seem to think the other person is crazy and its not effecting them at all they are logical

It's because this ideology was adapted from Class Marxism.. they were literally using the term "Cultural Marixism" back nearly 100 years ago.

The goal of Marxism is to break down society, grow the government, and slowly erode our rights and implement communism

It is Green Privilege not White Privilege.

@Gilbert Gaines Lmao, the hypocracy is palpable. "White people psychological stupid button" sounds EXACTLY like racism to me. Far left democrats tout themselves to be objective and only telling the facts when 99% of the time their arguements are based in a subjective morality and this chosen ignorance to real world data and concepts. The same criticism can be said of far right conservatives. This idea of me vs you is how we ended up here in this cultural battlefield, and you are only feeding into the eventual divide of the UNITED states.

@Gilbert Gaines Are you okay? You aren't making much sense beyond the clear unwarrented hatred you have for the republican party. Might wanna look inward when it comes to delusion. Hope you figure things out man. 🤔

Haha thank you, Joseph!! Welcome to the white privilege club btw! 🥳

What do you call four Mexicans in quicksand? Quatro cinco!!!!

@@josephcoon5809 How do you play baseball in Mexico? Drink the water and try to make it home.

you got it man. I'm mailing you your white card. With complimentary Dave Matthew's Band CD. That's required :)

@@SaltyTubers Or Joel Patrick! He's where I got mine! ;)

Content of character

Social justice warriors don't believe in the concept of merit. They believe in gatekeeping. What they have been doing that last 20 years is building new gates and making themselves the keepers. You can only get the job or into the school or get the certificate or credentials if you say what they want you to say and do what they want you to do.

@@axepagode33626 very well put also.

Classic straw man argument. 👎

How is it a straw man argument?

That is awesome indeed!!

According to this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4K5fbQ1-zps.html That's all I would have too. As long as we consider my parents married, since they were until my daddy died

But most of all, their both living.

"...and my biological parents..." Oh, okay. I guess us adopted people are fucked then, huh? Haha, jk. I know what you mean.

It's really true. I'm white and I've never met my biological father, had a step-dad since I was born. There's some psychological stuff that comes with it, and there is a whole half of my ancestry that I know nothing about.

Exactly 🤣🤣

Thank you!! It's great to be here!! 🥳

@@BradLexCouchcast The Hodge Twins can hook you up. Lol

@@sacreligious74 I was going to comment the same thing about the card lol

Lex gets a gold star for being a true metal head

Now that you have your white card, you may continue to live as a loving other human beings to where race don't mean shit. I love you guys. #colorblindskins #traditionalskin #trojanrecords #fucknazis #metaliscolorblind.

Exactly what I said! I don't find it a privilege to be among other Russian Jews and clearly people who wrote the list are racist if they view it as a privilege to be among people of their own race. I am comfortable among people I like, no matter what race.

If anything, what's more important to me is the right to interact with people of *other* cultures, if one wishes. Exactly the opposite of this silly test. This is from having gown up decades ago when overt racism was all around and people were much more segregated, and not by choice. Now I've observed the most racist tend be those who make the biggest deal about race.

Well said. If there IS any truth to white privilege I would say it's that we don't care about race and don't care about being white....I could care less. I don't think about it.. I care about my family, my friends, my religion and being American

To take that a step further, if it truly did matter to you, I'm sure you would be able to find a community with that option.

@@amedaius8492 And the only people who would want to be around people of their own race more than others is kind of exclusive and segregationist. The person who wrote this doesn't see the problem with that question and appears to think of that as some sort of benefit. Even if they are talking about white people, with 73% of the US being white, yeah, it wouldn't be hard to find a group of people of my race... but the real question is how many people out there really care about that? I have never avoided going somewhere simply because it wasn't 100% white... In fact, living on the southern border, it is impossible to do that anyway. Real scummy question that should be asking more about motives than possibilities.

Exactly!!

I loved that welfare cheese. Made the best grilled cheese sandwiches and Mac & cheese.

Lmao 😂💀

Hahahaaa 🤣😂 I answered pretty much the same as Brad and Lex also. I can not trust anyone with my, baby fine, thin, stringy hair, and Nobody wants to try, other than my Mom RIP who was a beautician. This test was awfully raaaaccciiiisssst.

There you go using your white privilege to beat the black man on the test

Hahaha 😂 🤣

😂🤣😂hilarious😂🤣😂

It's funny how they think Africa is one country. If you have someone from Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Somalia, etc, they will have different cultures and "African experiences".

What really throws em off is when a South African (often white, if not usually) moves to the states and calls themselves an African American. It's far truer than most blacks calling themselves that, but people lose their minds over it.

Bro I met white people who knew more about African people and the continent than American Africans do.

@Carl Coetzee WELL THEY ARE MOSTLY ARABIC, COPTIC, THE COLOUR OF THE SKI IS NOT THAT IMPORTANT AS RELIGION, TRIBE AND SO ON. Sorry for caps but i noticed only now.

I am absolutely positive you made that BS up.

Hallelujah! Me too. We were stinking poor. Playing in the woods. I remember ice on the INSIDE of our bedroom window. I grew up in east London. A council estate. We had black mould on our ceiling. It would ruin our clothes and make us ill. I was happy just to play out with my mates and we all had nothing lol.

It’s the rich people from both races who say theirs white privilege when I lived in north philly there was every single race and we didn’t care about anyones race because we were all broke as fuck.

Dam are we from the same house.lol I've been there.

it's so frustrating to me that so many people don't seem to understand what "white privilege" even is. They seem to think that it means "ALL white people are privileged and NO one from a minority race is". That is not what white privilege is. It doesn't mean that if you're white, you're guaranteed a good life, and if not, you're guaranteed a bad one. What it ACTUALLY means, is that white people (specifically in North America and Europe, where white people make up the vast majority of the population) are generally discriminated against less than people from minority races. They're less likely to be suspected of criminal activity; they statistically receive less harsh sentences for the same crimes as those of minority races (like for example, a white guy steals a car...it's his first offense...no prior criminal record, maybe he gets a few months in lockup and some community service...a Mexican or a black man steals an identical car in the same place, and is judged in the same court, and it's also their first offense with no prior criminal record, they get a couple years in prison. BTW, those sentences aren't exact...I was just guessing to make my point); when minority races apply for jobs, home rentals, etc., they're less likely to be approved than white people (especially when whoever is making the decision is white, or the majority of the community is white); minorities are less likely to get scholarships when applying alongside white people with equal credentials; etc. I could give a thousand examples. If you're white, you can still be poor...you can still have a tough time in school...you can still be harassed by police...you can still have a hard time finding work or housing...and in areas where the community is made-up of mostly a minority race, you can still be discriminated against. "White privilege" is a general concept that doesn't ALWAYS apply in every situation. I think calling it "majority privilege" might make it a little easier to understand, because that's a more accurate term. Wherever there is any sort of diversity, the majority group (whatever that group may be) will always have the potential for a better life with more opportunities than any minority group. "Potential" is the key word there. It's certainly not guaranteed. I'm a white male that grew-up in a small town in the Pacific Northwestern U.S., with a population that was probably 95% white, and I've had a lot of friends from minority races throughout my life, and I know first-hand that they were treated differently. On the flip side, I'm also openly gay, and have definitely been treated differently as a result (despite being on the masculine side, and not "obviously gay"). I've been harassed by employers and even fired from jobs for it (and they got away with it, because they just made-up some b.s. reason to fire me, and I couldn't prove anything or afford to hire a good lawyer). I also have some piercings, and wear a lot of black; I'm in to hard rock; love all things horror; etc....those things have gotten me followed around in stores almost every time I walk in to one (not so much in the bigger cities...but certainly in smaller towns), and often judged unfairly. It's also hard to find work. The point is that those who are part of minority groups, ESPECIALLY when their minority "status" is clearly visible (like skin color), are discriminated against more than white people (again, simply because they're the majority), and generally don't have quite as many opportunities available to them (or at least have to work twice as hard for those opportunities). Again..."white privilege" does not mean all white people are guaranteed "privileged" lives, or that minority races can't live lives of privilege...it means that the POTENTIAL for opportunities is greater for white people in places where they are the majority (which is MOST places in North America and Europe...the only real exceptions being certain neighborhoods in urban areas), and the POTENTIAL for experiencing discrimination is greater for minorities in areas where their race or "group" is the minority. Here's one last simple example in case you still don't get it. Say you apply for a job...you're white. The only other applicant is black. You both have the same education, same credentials, clean backgrounds, equally good references, and the same level of experience. You both are well dressed and well-spoken in your interviews, and are equal in every way that matters. Chances are, the person giving the interview and/or deciding who to hire is white (I'm not suggesting that is necessarily due to white privilege...only that with white people being the majority, chances are, that person will be white. Mathematically speaking)...or say there's a group of people making the final decision...chances are, the majority of that group is white. So with 2 applicants that are equally qualified and did an equally good job in the application and interview process, the white applicant is more likely to get the job. It could be that whoever made the decision is blatantly racist...but maybe they're not racist at all, and their choice is one that to them seems based on something logical, but subconsciously it has more to do with them being more comfortable hiring someone of their own race, or the race of the majority of their employees. Statistically speaking...that is the reality. That's what white privilege boils down to. Life is potentially easier if you belong to a majority group.

@@TimPetrone all that paragraph to write shit. Did you even watch the video? Most of the stereotypes you mention have to do with class and the way you portray yourself (do you look like from a poor background) than with the color of your skin. I know brown skinned people that only truly experienced racism when they went to live in Africa - racism from local black people. I bet you’re white… take your white savior complex and take a hike fool. Travel some more around the world and actually learn something

That term is such a misnomer. Everyone who claims to be “woke” are the most narrow minded, racist, bigoted, and toxic people I’ve EVER experienced! Used to be, if someone was racist, they had to hide it and keep it to themselves, but these people are blatantly racist but somehow completely ignorant to the damage they are causing! They are single handedly undoing whatever progress made by individuals like MLK.. it’s honestly so sad that so many are spreading this narrow minded mindset while describing themselves with a term that implies the opposite of what they truly are.

I agree to a point. If it was purely based on merit, representation should, for the most part, line up with the demographic representation of the national population, but it doesn’t.

@@ruthortega6192 in regards to what? Be specific.

@@davidmeloche3563 Everything. Executives, Congress, STEM jobs. All white cisgendered male dominated. Meanwhile prisons are disproportionately non-white population. I’m not saying there are no non-white people in Congress or that white people don’t go to prison, just that the demographic proportions don’t line up with that of the overall population.

@@ruthortega6192 Prison population is due to Biden's 1984 crime bill.

Racism ? It's a biological fact that there are no different human races. Stop with the propaganda mindset... It's so tiring when people mix up discrimination and racism.. It's really cringeworthy... Racism is a human concept and not a fact. And yes can we now go on with life ? I don't hate but apparently i am much better informed..... Smh.

I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by all this. You can spin all these answers in a way to show white privalage if you answer either way. So you worry about what the correct response is. Plus saying that something exists that you can't see, you're not aware of but you use it without consciously being aware of it makes you racist is confusing. They say racism us taught but if I can't consciously stop it from happening cuz I subconsciously benefit from this is mind blowing. I mean no disrespect to anyone of any race but if you can show to me so someone makes choices based off race I will stand with you against it (that being said it can't be just because a white person was a better (or equal) choice for a job than a black person). There must be honest proof that the choice has been made on skin colour alone. I refuse to be made to feel guilty because someone I have no control over chooses to like me and gate someone else. I can only be responsible for my actions. Thank you guys for doing this and showing just how much this could pertain to anyone. If you're raised to be responsible and act responsible, show compassion to others and cooperate with others chances are opportunities will come to you more often than if you don't, regardless of colour. It's getting to the point where a white person us afraid to comment because if they don't agree they're racist and if they do agree they're just pretending to be helpful or they can't be helpful regardless just because their skin colour means they can't. We have to be better people than that. I'm not suggesting racism isn't alive and well but that it can be against anybody. If you choose to segregate others based on their skin colour it's just wrong regardless if it's white on black, black on black or even black on white (or any other combination of whatever colour you choose). If we are so busy looking for things to divide us we won't ever realize that we have more in common than differences. It comes down to testing others the way you would want to be treated.

I know what we’re these questions?? Who actually came up with this test

@@murkyturkey5238 Doing some research, Peggy McIntosh as part of essays in 1989. From something I found on it: "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 1989, pp. 10-12, a publication of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA. Some of the articles of the test go back to at least 2017. So that kind of tells you that this is another one of those cyclical things that was dredged up to keep the racial divides going.

A very small minority of people at that.

i agree, i loved their take on "white privilege"

@@mre4u422 I would love to see some Americans trying to explain "White". Iam a northern european and shit Europa got so many different cultures, iam quite sure a for example Norwegian person is way more different culture wise than someone from lets say Bosnia.. Or just any european country vs anyone THAN a American with low melanin and a American with high melanin..

Yes u are right most people really aren't racist

You lucky bastard.

I’m this comments 69th like. Nice

You dont have good taste in nfl teams for sure

Or, as George Carlin said, we only have temporary privileges, and no rights at all.

@@mcloathin3354 what are you talking about the only team that won 4 Super Bowls when football was real football with players that could really hit and no protection for the quarterbacks like they have now

They are sweethearts for sure.

I feel the same way :/ ..

What? I didn't understand your comment

@@patriciamccutcheon3357 what is it you don't understand?

Same. I was followed as a teen because teens steal a lot. And I had the cheek to get mad about despite I used to steal in some stores. I'm white. I realised man's was just doing their job

Same. I was followed as a teen because teens steal a lot. And I had the cheek to get mad about despite I used to steal in some stores. I'm white. I realised man's was just doing their job

I'm a white woman and the employees watch me like a hawk at self checkout n I have been followed.

That is a general idea in retail. A person who wants to shop lift is less likely to do so if they know people know they are there. However it's also good customer service in general to acknowledge a customer, and make yourself approachable for help if needed. However retail companies have a bipolar view on theft. Some will bend over backwards to appease a thief because they do not want to be mean to a potential customer. Or they are afraid for being sued for "racism". Unless you are on the west coast or Chicago were the government is preventing police from arresting thieves.

Most stores don't even see this as a shoplifting deterrent. I've seen many retail companies that have a "10 foot rule", in which you're supposed to say hello to any customers who walk within 10 feet of you and have it feel natural. People who are intent on stealing will steal regardless, but it does help in which they feel someone is watching them constantly; or as they put it in clerks, honesty through paranoia.

Walmart... and Best Buy, preaches that and you are to do that to everyone that comes in... not just people of certain color... As a customer it's pretty annoying when I know what I'm looking for and am making a b-line to the section and often the exact isle that holds what I want.. like bitch 'outta my way, go help those lost looking motherfuckers who can't read the department or isle contents.

I've notice that people that work in a government job have the worst attitudes and are the most racist is it because they are told to be that way or do they have to be that way in order to get a government job?

@@titorodriguez1340 or you have a cognitive bias, in which you want to see it that way thus you do.

Yep most people are retarded and end up believing or valuing something which empowers a manipulative minority peddling that bullshit belief or intangible value, so you end up with wealth privilege gained from followers valuing what is being sold to them (usually something intangible so no work actually has to be done or earned). All life must value it's experience in order to be able to make decisions for survival (if something is either good or bad for your survival all life keeps some kind of memory of these interactions/experiences to be valued and later used to make future decisions), there's a tiny minority that understands this inherent logic of value can actually be exploited. Even a frigging plant has a simpler system of chemical logic that'll make it grow towards light etc... People will do anything to obtain or defend what they value it's in our very nature for survival. Try and take food away from a hungry wolf and you'll see the system in action.

You forgot about the whale call CDs. LOL

Doesn't like Chocolate milk, bet he likes his milk White, obviously a racist.

@@michaelparker5030 Then there's me, with my caramel milk.... Or lime. Lime milk is great.

@@-Gax- hmmm, Lime milk, never heard of it. Is it a regional thing?

Best comment ever XD XD

I'm 60 years old and racism is worse than now than when MLK did his marches and the VAAAAAAAAAAAAST majority of racsim is coming from liberals and minorties. See CRT.

Exactly! It's all the government using the same old tired divide and conquer tactics that the people are too dumb to see through!

Yeah, I'm hoping the same. The worst thing would be for us to overcorrect again, except in the opposite direction--thereby taking another generation to try fixing.

And here's what I don't get. All races enslaved other races at one point, and some still do. If you can get reparations without going through it, every race should get reparations! Lol and if it's based on the Country you are in, should white people in Africa get reparations? People like to pretend the white man is the only one to commit such a wrong.

Our society is currently destroying most of the social cohesion and sense of community we developed up until 2000.

A few years older. Was pulled over a number of times I believe because police didn't believe a young punk kid with a leather jacket and spiked hair should be driving a bright red, 10 year old Volvo. Happened that I worked at a car dealership at the time and my boss was the used car manager who hooked me up.

@@brentottoson6974 that's the root of the age old argument between my dad and my brother. My brother wanted to look like a punk, and my dad wanted my brother to look more "respectable" In my opinion, it's a decision between expressing your individuality and dressing in a way that brings less trouble to yourself.

@Russian bot Not true bot. 2 days after my incident, there was an article in the local paper saying that at least 5 other people from the same show experienced similar abuse. I know an investigation of those 2 officers followed, don't know what happened with it though.

@Russian bot Though might not be the case of the OP, but I can back this up we use to do this a lot to folks that go to rough or would hit girls while in the pit back in the 90's when I did a lot of security for shows. Not to the level the OP is talking about but you got a reality check real fast. That or a walk out the back door and end of show for you while your now stuck in a dark back alley.

You can order a "White Privlidge" card online to prove it.

Right on! the color that really matters most is *green,* if ya know what I mean, but the real privileged want to move us away from cash to have even more control and a greater share of the pie of which they already have the lion's share.

@@ballhawk387 which is why the right thing to do is to increase works in other projects as well as job opportunities in low-income areas ( not just black areas) you can go to any large city in the US and find a homeless population living together on many streets and tents of many different races and ethnicities but this shouldn't even be possible at the percentage we have in a country as great as this and I know there are people who are homeless by choice me being one of them as well as people who are strung out on drugs but I remember dropping out of school in 2015 to get a job because my single mother with four kids couldn't afford anything more than bread and cup of noodles for us to eat for 3 years straight and this woman had two jobs let alone the fact that they were out in the boonies to make matters worse the education system basically put me in special Ed because I slept in class in first grade and it might sound very racist but when I looked at it there are plenty of highly intelligent kids of many different races and backgrounds and special ed so many who had no problems who are kept in there because of bureaucracy and paperwork issues it's almost like if you live in substandard housing in the inner City your life is worth nothing and at that level races not even taken into account

Hell yeah I'm white and we grew up eating that and I still eat it and woukd never turn down a plate of that me.

lol, Now what about when you're too broke to afford hamburger and just get Helper?

I see at as much less of a class or race issue. Frankly, I see this as a culture war. The WOKE are telling the country that its ideals are racist. All this in an effort to change the culture from 1 of equity to equality. 2 very different things. I myself was raised by a single father. He worked (and still does) as an entry level framer for My entire life. I am 30 and I drive trucks, never been arrested (not to be interpreted as a brag. My dad was, quite often too.) and I am in the market for my first home. This is all to say that while I certainly could have done better, I’ve made better decisions than he did when he was my age. Thus putting myself in a more favorable situation. I had a similar upbringing as you too. Condemnable trailer life!!!

In a general sense I agree that it's more classism than racism, but when you look at the statistics of how many Black families live in poverty vs Whites, Black vs. White median income, etc., it starts to paint a broader picture. This is where people on both sides of the debate often miss a step. It's class AND race, both separately and combined.

@@Stirrups I know the statistics. Its just not been my experience. I don't like taking headline statistics without considering mitigating factors and what they aren't saying about those statistics to steer the optics to whatever the reports point of view is. I sometimes wonder if they are skewed by the big high population cities like Chicago, Detroit, NY and LA which I have never been which is why I don't see it. Or maybe its also the time its taking for people of color to organically move into wealth since discrimination was outlawed, because its not easy. But once 1 parent gets in that wealth bracket and the family grows up in that environment your much more likely to stay there I think. People of color that grow up in wealthy neighborhoods tend to come out with much higher paying jobs than a white guy that grew up poor. Its a wealth, mentality, connections, and status advantage from growing up in that environment. I haven't seen 2 people of equal skill where the person of color would be overlooked. In fact its incentivized through diversity programs to pick the person of color over a Caucasian even if the caucasian is more qualified. BTW just to be clear I'm not trying to argue racism doesn't exist all around. Just seems like more often its just being weaponized than not.

The people that have more in common with other cultures, nation states all over the world is always the lower classes (the global south). As ubiquitious as the global economy is, (I'll quote Axl here) It feeds the rich while it buries the poor. It is less about colour and more about class these days, however racism is more of 'soft power' presence than the overt days of the past, it hasn't disappeared, it has just become subtle. It can permeate as policies of meritocracy, policy based on means tested assets. If you want an accurate view of this test, look through the lens of the colonised, your native Americans and ask the same questions.

@@MowMowMowDiittyMow this is why when I have traveled to enpoverish countries, I get along with everyone so well....they are my people! Poor folk understand poor ways.

I know! I love them!

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@@jonasturklbach2705 yes, their conversations are great.

YES! I had the similar reaction.

As a Hunkpapa who's family left the reservation behind (in the 40's) and made it; I don't really believe that to be true. Lived in every state on the west coast and all but 4 on the east coast and NEVER found "white privilege" (a recently coined term) to be anything more than a loser's excuse as to why THEY failed.

This is hardly the forum for such heavy vibes, so I'll just suggest you read up a bit on what the term 'white privilege' actually means vs. what you apparently think it means, and bow out : ) * I'm not sure why 'recently coined' would matter? The term 'crowdfunding' isn't very old either, doesn't make it less real

@@TheMookNet Well Natives are know for honesty and calling out a lie when we hear it so that is why I corrected your lies and misinformation. Carry your racism elsewhere. White privilege is a lie losers use when they fail in life.

@@chantenupa Hahahaha, okay, I'm really out this time, and apologies to Brad & Lex for polluting their comments with this drivel, but I just *have* to point out the hilarity of being called a racist by A) someone who doesn't believe racial privilege exists, and B) someone who believes that being Native American somehow makes one more honest 🤣🤣🤣 I'ma go watch their reaction to Dio now. Peace out.

It's not independent, if you think the U.S. is a good place then the propaganda took.

@@inttrovertedmonk851 The U.S. may not be a good place, but it's still the best place. Do your research.

Affirmative action in and of itself is exceptionally racist. It's the only thing allowed to tell blacks that you are lesser and incapable of succeeding without help, and not be called racist.

@@dalehammers4425 Then there is also the other end of the spectrum when you look at things like the ongoing Asian Students Vs Harvard admissions lawsuit where the message is instead "Your scores are more than good enough, if you looked like you belonged to some other race/ ethnic group, but we have too many people that look like you already so go away"

I loved that welfare cheese. Made the best grilled cheese sandwiches and Mac & cheese.