You and I are so elite that we don’t even realize it. I also had the Privilege of serving in the USAF 1972-1976. We I moved back to Alabama after discharge I had a hard time finding a job with a large company to use my high tech skills. Why? Most companies in the south were under strict EEOC manadates. Due to Privilege, I finally accepted a low tech job with the phone company, they gave me 2 years senority credit for my military service. That’s right, my Privilege secured me a job as a Long Distance Directory Assistance Operator. For 2 years I had the Privilege of working rotating shifts and rotating off days. Then due to 5 non-privileged individuals in a row with less seniority than me washing out of pole climbing school, my Privilege kicked in again and I got a Residence Installer job. Three years later I took a commissioned sales job selling business telephone equipment and services. Privilege and not hard work kept me in the top 5 commissioned sales reps nationally. I climbed from there up the ladder to upper middle management and then took an early retirement after 20 years at the age of 42 rather than uproot my family to follow my department’s move to Atlanta. Now at 60 years old I still make big bucks due to Privilege, not hard work and risk taking. I feel so guilty some days.
I know what you mean. I had the privilege of joining the United States Navy straight out of high school in 1962, that was the continuation of my privileged life of cutting firewood, picking cotton, hauling watermelons, walking behind a plow, milking the cow and feeding livestock for as far back as I can remember. Now I have the privilege of listening to people who have never known how to make their own way in the world spout off about how smart they are. Oh, yes, the glories of white privilege, I feel ever so guilty. Such an amazingly easy life I have had as a privileged white man.
If this needs a sarcasm tag there is no hope for this nation.