“I once had a black person accuse me of being born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had to stop him right there and explain that my father was a blue collar member of the United Auto Workers, and my mother didn’t work at all. She stayed home to raise children. There was no wealth or privilege in my home as a child. I had no special advantage growing up other than what I could do with my own talents and abilities and mostly hard work.”
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Had a chick lecture me on white privilege on a first (and last) date. When I explained that I grew up as 1 of 9 kids in a single-earner blue collar family, she said it didn’t matter. I was only able to raise myself out of those humble beginnings because I was white, and a black man wouldn’t have been able to do that.
I told her she should prevent me from further exercising my white privilege by dating a black man instead. I put a twenty on the bar and left.