Posted on 07/11/2014 7:28:41 PM PDT by TigerClaws
The news: It's no $45,000 potato salad, but it may be just as important.
GoFundMe user Yaya M. is raising $135,000 to buy something many people have but all of us could use: some white privilege.
(Excerpt) Read more at mic.com ...
> Then get a job, pay your taxes and be called a racist for wanting to send illegals home...
Pay more than your fair share of taxes, watch freeloaders receive welfare while staying at home getting high and drunk playing video games, then go out at night and make more money than you make in a week tax free selling drugs...welcome to white privilege
P.S. don’t forget the white guilt
Her either :)
She is the typical parasite....
> Me...? I got yellow privilege. Asian persuasion. Higher IQ’s overall than white folk. Plus we got Jeremy Lin....
Not to mention children that are playing better at 5 years old on pianos, guitars, and violins than most adults 4 times their age. Actually I think that’s also due to discipline and the ability to focus like a laser beam on the task at hand. I could see the culture being a factor as well. You’ll have to wait until an entire generation has been Americanized to test that theory though...: )
Is this person a female? If she is I have a “certified white woman” card that my (rather liberal but most humorous and fwiw 100% gay) brother made me, back in the day when we still had humor.
At least I’m pretty sure I still have it, in my special drawer, along with the poems the homeless man from my coffee shop used to write for me on napkins.
Those were the days, my friends!
I will be more than happy to sell that bona fide white woman certificate to this person, of whatever race, for a mere $50K.
And it’s a bargain, it guarantees you will be treated wtih all the due respect a white woman is entitled to.
Quite frankly I need the money and my white privilege has been doing bubkas for me lately. Maybe she’ll have more luck with it that I have.
This is a serious offer, feel free to pass it along to that other site. I can be reached via freepmail at any time!
Maybe she should just be given a Nobel Peace Prize.That will set her right!
Agree. She can buy my white-ness for less than 135k.
Thus far it’s only cost me a job for not being part of the ‘quota’ club.
There ARE other ways to get White Privilege. Many well known Black actors and/or athletes are simply marrying white women; I guess that gets them their white privilege.
She will probably get the $135k she is looking for and start a new industry!
The news: It’s no $45,000 potato salad, but it may be just as important.
GoFundMe user Yaya M. is raising $135,000 to buy something many people have but all of us could use: some white privilege.
Why: “Although I have layered oppressions that have affected my ability to access my slice of the American Pie™, no issue has affected me more readily than my lack of white privilege,” Yaya writes.
White privilege — for the uninitiated — is defined as “a set of societal privileges … which benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people in the same social, political or economic circumstances.”
Examples of white privilege include: Not having to ensure your children are aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection, for one thing.
Yaya elaborates: “From being assumed to have ‘cheated’ my way into programs for gifted children AND college (via affirmative action), to having my natural hair viewed as unprofessional amongst professional peers, to having people make negative assumptions about my competency level, interests, and job knowledge, to being viewed as naturally dangerous or threatening, my lack of white privilege has created numerous obstacles as I’ve struggled to successfully compete in a white dominated workforce,” Yaya writes.
As a result: Yaya hopes that, “through this campaign, I will begin to make some headway towards closing the gap that white privilege has created in my life.” To that end, Yaya calculated the $135,000 figure by taking the statistical wage gap between Yaya and the typical white male then multiplying it by the 15 years Yaya has been in the job market.
And in case you’re still not on board: There’s a long list of benefits for donating:
$5 pledge: “At this level, I agree to be the black friend you are referencing when you tell people ‘I’m not racist, I have a black friend!’”
$65 pledge: “At this level, you may touch my hair without asking, enabling you to potentially absorb some of my magical afro powers.”
$200 pledge: “At this level, I will dress like a cop and harass you on the street for what will seem like no reason. Earn some street cred amongst your friends!”
Plus many, many more.
The irony: Of course, we all know that white privilege is born, not made. The point of Yaya’s account appears to be to draw attention to the persistence of white privilege in American society, and the broader costs of resulting black disadvantage.
Or, it could be just to have $135,000 to spend.
Either way: Respect the hustle.
does he get to help around the house or have a job while in HS?...
does he get to apply for scholarships and loans so he can pay the full cost of going to college instead of getting a pass ?....
does he have to actually do well on the SAT's to get into college?...
and when in college, does he get to study, study, work, and study and actually attend real hard classes and actually pass them?...
and does he have to put in resume after resume to get a good job, a job that some "others" would use the "race" card or the "poor" card to just walk right in?
If this “budding entrepreneur” can bottle “White Privilege” I will take some with me on my next project in Singapore ...
A clue? :)
a more inventive request....white wealthy liberal privilege!
This means having the ability to whine about being broke when one has been given a multimillion dollar book deal.
Being able to denounce tax cuts for the rich while taking advatage of every possible deduction and scheme to lower ones tax rate..
Being able to say how one cares for union members while not employing union members
Being able to trash those wealthy Republican trust funders born with silver spoons while one is a wealthy Lefty trust funder born with a silver spoon...
I’m sure there are plenty of folks who would be willing to trade their white privilege for illegal alien privilege.
I got “White Privilege” and yet nobody ever gives me free stuff. Go figure.
What is White privilege?
When I try to tan my White Privelege away at the tanning salon, zero double-taxes me. This one I can’t figure out.
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