Posted on 07/13/2018 7:19:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Politics has lately become saturated with buzzwords. This is especially true on racial issues, where bumper-sticker phrases like “black lives matter,” “coexist,” and “hands up don’t shoot” have become popular, even if their meanings are vague at best.
Add “white privilege” to that list. The term is thrown around constantly, yet even people who use it seem unable to define it — and a conservative black commentator just showed how meaningless it is in a clip that is now going viral.
During a sit-down conversation with a guest, conservative commentator and author Jesse Lee Peterson posed a simple challenge: Prove white privilege exists.
It should have been pretty easy. After all, we’re supposed to believe that “white privilege” is everywhere, giving Caucasians an unfair and unearned advantage at almost every turn.
If that were true, you’d think that major examples would be prevalent, yet when pressed, the leftist guest only turned into a sputtering mess.
“Does white privilege exist?” Peterson asked his guest. “Absolutely,” she answered.
“And where’s the proof of that?” he followed up. “All around!” she responded.
“For black people, white privilege is something to leverage,” she continued, without explaining what that means.
Pressing for a definition, Peterson made a simple request. “What is it, though?” he asked. “I don’t see it anywhere. What is it?”
That straightforward question made his guest do a complete reset, and apparently made her forget the English language.
“Wh-wha-huh? What? Huh?” she uttered.
“What is it?” Peterson continued. “For people like me who don’t see it …”
“How do you not see white privilege?” the guest continued, with a puzzled look on her face as if she had just been told that the earth was flat.
“Because it doesn’t exist,” Peterson answered.
“Yes it does!” the guest countered. “So what is it, exactly?” the host once again asked.
“I believe white privilege, er, is the ability just to be free and white, and not have the same type of social-economic and social ills as black people have to deal with,” the guest went on, staying vague.
“There’s no white racial profiling. White people don’t get pulled over by the cops just because they’re white. Um … they have the ability … to, um … you know, show emotion and love to their sons without being emasculated,” she continued, clearly struggling to answer the question.
Yes, when given a wide-open chance to explain white privilege, the guest could only think of tired examples like alleged mistreatment of black Americans by police, and a bizarre answer about “showing emotion.”
Even her boilerplate answer about police targeting black people has been shown to be false. The facts show that black citizens are not targeted disproportionately by cops — and actually, police officers are less likely to use force against black citizens than other races.
“When adjusting for crime, we find no systematic evidence of anti-Black disparities in fatal shootings, fatal shootings of unarmed citizens, or fatal shootings involving misidentification of harmless objects,” a major university study recently found, as The Western Journal reported last month.
“Officers’ use of lethal force following an arrest for a violent felony is more than twice the rate for white as for black arrestees, according to one study,” reported The Wall Street Journal, essentially contradicting the woman’s “white privilege” claim.
“Another study showed that officers were three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed whites,” The Journal continued.
“Not only are blacks not more likely to be fired upon by police than whites in tense moments, the study found that, if anything, they are less likely to be shot at,” that report continued. The researcher behind that study is himself black: Prof. Roland G. Fryer Jr. of Harvard University.
Then there’s the fact that when it comes to prestigious college admissions, it is Asian and white applicants — not blacks — who are currently discriminated against.
Data shows that for medical school applicants with the same MCAT scores, black college students have a dramatically higher chance of being accepted than their white or Asian peers with nearly identical test scores.
How about the pesky fact that the two highest-earning ethnic groups in America today are actually minorities who can be classified as “people of color?”
You read that right: Contrary to the narrative about white Americans keeping others down, it is actually Indian American and Filipino Americans who are the top earners in the U.S.A.
The list of evidence disproving the “white privilege” claim goes on and on.
Yes, there are racial disparities and still problems to be solved. However, the narrative of white privilege just doesn’t hold up when the actual evidence is examined. The fact that nobody seems able to define it or provide firm examples when pressed only reiterates that point.
No country is perfect, and the United States certainly is not either. Yet we’ve come a long way in only a few decades, and have the chance to become even more unified with our neighbors — no matter their race — than ever before.
Instead of throwing around empty and divisive phrases like “white privilege,” let’s look past skin color to focus on elevating individuals and celebrating accomplishments. That is the true American way.
"Privilege": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin privilegium ‘bill or law affecting an individual,’ from privus ‘private’ + lex, leg- ‘law.’"
Privilege means being subject to a different set of rules than regular people; being able to do things that regular people would get in trouble for; being given special advantages under law.
In the US, in 2018, white people are not privileged. If anything, it is the people given special status under law, via "affirmative action" and "minority set-asides" who are privileged.
What the... Where did that come from and how is loving one’s child even race related? LOL! Bizarre.
Wow! This is as close as one of the brain dead liberals will ever get to admitting how screwed a lot of black culture is and she did not even realize what she was admitting! Just wow!
Had a black supervisor once who was so beyond clueless. I constantly had to explain simple words to him. His reports were written in Ebonics.
After a redistricting, I ended up with an Iraqi supervisor who hated whites and especially white women. He came out of Ft. Hood, so yeah. The first time he visited my office to introduce himself, he flat out said he didn’t like me with not follow up explanation. A few months later, I tried to make a peace offering and offered him one of some watermelons a client had given me. He jumped back and yelled as if I had shoved a snake at him. He was such a sick horrid little creature who lied and destroyed files so we’d get the blame. Every one of the employees quit. I held on being the last to quit hoping the big bosses would fire him but I was too naïve about minority hires.
They KNOW they are ‘safe’...................
Maybe she could redefine it as “All Races Besides Black Privilege”. Most Whites (until recently) and Asians of every sort are “privileged” to be born into cultures that demand earned achievement and improved circumstances for each next generation. Black Americans might enjoy the same “privileges” once their underlying culture stops glorifying criminality and self pity, and denigrating self discipline, scholarship, and traditional moral values. The problem isn’t an inferior skin color. It’s a culture mired in self pitying misery, reinforced by a political party that relies on its voters for the maintenance of power and wealth amidst urban squalor and decay.
Perfectly stated..................
My boss was not a minority-she was just a horrible person who was accountable to NO ONE.
SO, she got to play God with MY life. As I say-no minority female would have tolerated that for a moment... so, I always wondered how I had to take this.... since I have this here white privilege??? Ha!!(sarc)
The funny thing is, all the women in that office were extreme feminists and HATED men. But the instant they got to a position of authority they began behaving worse than the worst man I ever worked for.
In fact-I never got that kind of treatment from any man in the work place.... EVER.
Men have always been MUCH better behaved and wouldn’t dream of that kind of de humanizing, disrespectful or dismissive conduct.
Yes. I should have said “or”, not “and”.
Inside every liberal there is a tyrannical despotic autocrat dictator trying to get out................
You make a solid point. Privilege, from an objective viewpoint, in a country of laws, only deals with how the law is applied to the individual. The rest is just subjective excuse making for why people have stuff you don’t have.
And yes, regarding “Privelege”, from a legal standpoint, there is no white privilege, but there most definitely is (or at least was) black privilege with things like Affirmative action.
Sh-h-h. Don’t let them find out about our secret handshake. Or all of the freebies whites get like interest free mortagages and free utilities or the fact the the internal revenue secretly refunds all white peoples tax payments. Or the fact that our bosses let us laze around and make sure only blacks work. Boy, if they find out about all the secret bennies of white privilege they’ll really complain.
Just the other day I was stopped by a cop and asked him why he stopped me. He said that, “Since you’re white, here’s a free book of coupons,” It’s awesome. There are 50 coupons that I just give to the cop when I get pulled over for speeding. They are “One free speed” coupons.
Heck, I used six just last week. I did not know my car could do 150, right through a small town.
It’s great to be white! Everybody should try it!
I had a cultural privilege. My parents married before they had children and stayed married all their lives. They taught me to value education, work hard, live within your means, obey the law, respect your country, be courteous to all, love God and give to charities. Nothing racial about it.
The British "stiff upper lip" thing is still freaking out their colonists a century later. :)
As a white-privileged American, I would encourage any other race or group of people who want to come here, to please...appropriate THIS culture! We won't mind if you do. A long time ago, people used to call this "assimilation," and it was quite celebrated as an American thing to do.
Simply put...we have “white privilege” because of some demented notion that we have the privilege of being *white*.
Other than God, I don’t know who grants such a “privilege”, and I had very little to do with my skin color at my birth.
What are we supposed to do about it? I know, I know...pay money to those who are NOT white.
It’s a ploy to find hate when there’s nothing else to prove it other than isolated incidents across time.
“If you were raised by parents that had wealth and taught you to be successful, you have “privilege”.”
Let me fix this for you...
If you were raised by parents that were married to each other, obeyed the law, and worked hard and taught you to to the same, you have “privilege”.
If you were raised by parents that were married to each other, obeyed the law, and worked hard and taught you to to the same, you have “privilege”.
It also gets to the heart of the problem here. Their position actually seeks to demonize high standards for your progeny or, at the very least make you feel guilty for it and shame you into believing it’s not fair that you have the personal qualities that others don’t have.
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