A successful black women claims a successful black man is so because of his "white privilege." This is a great example of the arrogant assumptions of the privileged oppressed claiming grievance where none exists.
She should be fired right now. A white person would be.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.This point of this news piece, is NOT that racism does not exist.
The issue is that a SUCCESSFUL black person's default fallback opinion is that ANY MAN who is successful in the way the black man is, is only because he is "white."
Her base assumption is that only white men are successful in her industry.
What does that say about her success? How did she get to where she is?
How can we fix anything if the problems are defined in such absolutely shitty terms?
Such assumptions impede any progress to reasonable solutions.
This is dangerous. Laws are being made based upon such false narratives.
JacarC
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Jan 18, 2019
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Aren't you also being presumptive when you post isolated narratives that don't speak for the majority? For every one of these you put up, there are more that speak the other direction..the game of tit for tat is what serves to impede progress...
This exact same thing happens with every controversial tape...the Black Lives Matter groups posted hundreds of things showing the almost unrefutable targeting of blacks in police shootings and yet the ones getting the attention were the ones that showed one of them was an actual criminal....does that discount all of the others? They actual served to dilute the gravity of the situation and basically reinforced that black lives could be discounted... How is that narrative moving the discussion forward? What laws got changed? False narratives that go against what people see before their very eyes at the street level is what is dangerous...it is like telling them that what is happening is not really happening...gaslighting at its finest...
Just because a black man says he is not oppressed does not mean millions of others are not...a few outliers do not set the tone for all of the others anymore than a few rapists set the tone for the entire male population. To her defense, she was not properly prepared and did not have the visual, using only his words, which parrot those of so many white privileged people...if I heard him talk after hearing the same old lame arguments, I would probably jump to the same conclusion.
This trend of successful black people denying that racism and sexism are not part of the problem only keeps the topics under wraps so that people don't have to deal with the uncomfortable discussions that are needed to really wipe out racism and privilege of all kinds.
Stop talking to the elite and successful and pay more attention to the men and women on the street...
A white person would be fired? ha ha Yeah...look at all of the racist yahoos that still have their jobs, including those in congress...for saying so much worse things...some have been called out, and I hope it continues...
thinktwice
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Jan 17, 2019
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@thinktwice bwahahaha, you used 'mansplain' unironically. only trash here is you. Kindly take yourself out.
@thinktwice Wow considering he was just being self-deprecating - and you decided he belonged at the curb - he was being pretty darned polite here. And reasonably good natured.
Why are you so angry that you'd go right to "Mansplaining?". I'm not sure what I missed here.
I feel like I missed a few paragraphs of dialogue.
This is not what mansplaining is. You do not need to be Southern to know what it is? My goodness.
We have White Trash up here in the North too BTW.
This point of this news piece, is NOT that racism does not exist.
The issue is that a SUCCESSFUL black person's default fallback opinion is that ANY MAN who is successful in the way the black man is, is only because he is "white."
Her base assumption is that only white men are successful in her industry.
What does that say about her success? How did she get to where she is?
How can we fix anything if the problems are defined in such absolutely shitty terms?
Such assumptions impede any progress to reasonable solutions.
This is dangerous. Laws are being made based upon such false narratives.
@Jacar My point is for both of them SHE and HE..not ALL or MOST...why do we select people who have such narrow opinions and focus on them when the bigger picture is the greater majority? This doesn't appy to just race...we are constantly bombarded by a narrow perspective...the exceptions..
SHE is incorrect to have her assumptions and HE is incorrect to have his...both are speaking only for their own experiences and not for those represented by many, many more...
It is more dangerous not to acknowledge that those who make the laws are not looking at the same pictures...
That was a major gaffe and there will always be situations where white privilege isn't the case. Nonetheless, the history of racism in America has always, by definition, been about white privilege. We could talk all day about poor, uneducated white people but at the end of the day, even they knew they had at least a theoretical chance of upward mobility but the law stopped blacks in their tracks with all the power of the state.
brentan
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Jan 17, 2019
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exactly...poor and white was touted as being way better than being black..they did a poll and people still believe that...
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