Respect is something you earn, sweetie. It’s not an anointing.
I’m sorry but everyone has their cross to bear and no group or members of a group are exempt. If you want to talk about the legacy of slavery, we’ll also have to speak of the 600,000 soldiers’ lives snuffed out in a war over its termination. If you want to talk about racial privilege, then we have to get to affirmative action. If you want to talk about economic deprivation, we can talk about the enormous taxes many of us pay to support a very substantial number of the people who live in Baltimore through welfare, food stamps, free medical care, etc. some of which is deserved and needed, some of which is not. If you want to talk about hurt, talk to the families of Vietnam vets who were killed or severely wounded and who were stomped on by the left — 88 percent of our casualties were white (this not in the slightest to disparage the many black men who fought very well in the war but the percentage of black casualties was actually LESS of their percentage of the population than that of Caucasian and Hispanic background soldiers). In conclusion, if you want to waste your life whining, you would have plenty of company if the rest of us decide to blame everyone else for our problems, wallow in it, and never make any progress as adult men and women citizens of the only country on earth that tries to give the best and most affordable health care, human rights, and path to advancement if you will work for it.
Great point! Too bad she won’t get it.
Exactly. Perhaps the writer can describe what the community she speaks for has done to earn our respect.
After decades of the Great Society and the advent of the welfare state I'd really like to hear it.