Elon James White is writer, performer and founder of This Week in Blackness, a multimedia digital platform dedicated to diversifying voices and news coverage within media. White has appeared on shows like Al Jazeera’s "Flashpoint," "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," VH1’s "Black to the Future" and "The Rachel Maddow Show," and his commentary has been featured in outlets like Slate, Colorlines, BuzzFeed and The Root.
Pull your damned pants up, don't get tatted up one side and down the other, stop saying MF every other word, stop knocking up baby-mamas to the point where 70% of all births are out of wedlock, stop blaming whitey for everything that's wrong in your 'communities', and most of all, stop being the 13% of the population that commits 50% of all violent crimes.
Then maybe we can talk.
When you proclaim to the world that you are “Woke”
You actually confirm to me that you are truly a “Joke”
If all Whites are Ray’s Sis.
Then all Blacks are Criminals.
BTW, who is this Ray guy, and why is everyone referencing his sister?
I’ve never sat in a store for hours without purchasing anything. I don’t go into McD’s while traveling and use their restrooms without buying SOMETHING. I figure I owe them the courtesy. And if a store owner asks me to leave, which is rare...I leave without arguing. Because it is their store & their property.
I’ve just described how white privilege has worked for me for 60 years. From what I’ve seen, blacks who accept the terms of ‘white privilege’ - self-control - are then treated as if they have white privilege too.
My brown Filipina wife also has lived by those rules of ‘white privilege’, and she is treated with respect.
Maybe ‘white privilege’ is just what happens when one obeys the Golden Rule. Not the White Rule, or the Black Rule, but the Golden Rule:
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” - Matt 7:12
Who are these ‘white’ people they are talking about?
Could they identify all in a group photograph?
The Starbucks *false* racism video is remarkable for just how unremarkable it is that so many black people break rules and laws and cry racism when it doesn’t work out for them.
This is an entitlement issue. Too many blacks feel entitled to special treatment because of their color. Buy something or get out applies to whitey too.
I would have just bought a small cup of coffee, how frigging hard is that?
Raising another generation of spoiled brats.