Dear Mr Beck: Let me tell you about White Privilege

[kpete]

How do I know I'm privileged?

1] I'm a trust fund brat, it paid for my education and the house in which my partner and I live, and it pays for our everyday needs. At 33 I have no debts nor financial worries.

2] Private education, I have no experience in what it would be like not to have the best education money can buy. Quite frankly until I went to university it just seemed banal.

3] The people we all know tend to be able to get things done to our advantage.

4] We were raised with the goal in mind of helping others, since apparently we didn't need help ourselves.

How do I know it was white privilege?

Well quite frankly, you didn't meet anyone else.

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/8/28/896932/-Dear-Mr-Beck:-Let-me-tell-you-about-White-Privilege

[geckosfeet]

1. However, it is my right to be ignorant.

And that Mr Beck is White privilege in a nutshell.

It is also why I am distressed by the co-option of a remarkable day by a group of whiners. Instead of remembering one of the greatest Americans ever to live they will moan about taking their country back. The history of this day wasn't to whine about government, it was about being an equal player in government and society.

Mr Beck you are the antithesis of Martin Luther King.

Dear Mr Beck: Let me tell you about White Privilege