(07-05-2020 04:12 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: Interesting too that only blacks talk about it.
Not surprising at all. It goes by another name among whites. Class Supremacy.
For the middle class there is no real avenue to becoming a billionaire. The tax system is against it, it's damned tough to defend you patents against multi-billion dollar corporations who can simply steal them and tie you up in court until you are broke.
From the vantage point of a retired white person (though I truly have Native American heritage) what African Americans see as white privilege was not what was created by the middle class, but rather what the ultra wealthy permitted the middle class to have in order to stave off our revolution against them.
If I was going to offer a suggestion to African Americans it's that they are aiming at the wrong whites. Those Corporations that sponsor this mess, who have CEO's who live in gated and guarded compounds, and who have mansions all over the world with similar arrangements, those are the designers of what is called White Supremacy which is really a dummy target set up to keep the true poor from turning on them.
I wonder if every poor person was given a middle class home and middle class property if they would really feel free. We don't! Pay off your house and the government can still take it if you can't afford the property taxes that they raise every year. Try to get you kid, smart as they may be, into a posh Ivy League school and see how rigid the class prejudice really is, and if like a close relative of mine they actually get in they are treated like the kitchen help because by clothing, transportation, and clubs they can access everyone knows them to just be bright pretenders merely sampling what the others will own.
There is very little distance between poverty and the middle class and those who apply their education and bust their butts can cross that barrier. But crossing from the middle class into the truly upper class is nearly impossible. That my friend is by divine right. That means if you are born into it you can't lose it no matter how stupid you are and if you aren't born into it and even approximate their wealth you'll still never be in the club.
And that sir is what minorities think of as "White Privilege" not realizing that the Middle Class whites are just as shut out as they are. If you can earn a position its not Privilege. If you are gifted one it is. No working class people are privileged. When you live above the law, or can buy the law, and can escape prosecution for crimes, and travel the world with your own entourage to protect you then you know what Privilege is, but it's not "White" as wealthy Arabs, Chinese, Russians, and Africans know. It's Rich Privilege and it knows no race. To attach race to it is stupid. This struggle that is going on is just over who's going to be the least advantaged. It's not about "Privilege" because those who have it aren't hurt by toppled statues, looted stores, burned businesses, and burned homes.
It was always the super wealthy who had slaves by the virtue of whatever the culture called wealth. It was always the super wealthy who stole your sons for combat, turned your daughters into their whores, raped your wife, and killed you for your land. And the faces of those victims were white in Europe, black and brown in Africa, different hues of brown in Asia and America and South America. But it was never the working class in another country that enslaved you. It is only the 5% that control 95% of the worlds wealth and use every means and trick to get the rest of us to kill each other. But until we unite and refuse to take their bait they will continue to manipulate us all.
Now does that answer your question. Whites don't call it "White" privilege because we only see the privilege of the "Super Rich". It is they who oppress us. Every victim tends to put a different face to his bogeyman, but there is only one in reality and Lord Acton described it so well when he said "Power Corrupts, but Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely!"
Now I ask you this question, does not the spirts of envy, jealously, hatred, malice, and murder exist in us all? You bet it does. Therefore none of us have a moral imperative over another. But to allow 5% to control 95% of the resources is quite another matter.