raydawg wrote on 04/05/18 at 13:32:57:I just showed this to my Black boss....
Yes there are many things wrong with the white world and black world, but the wrong things in the white world have power over the black world (right or wrong) in a way that the black world does NOT have power over the white world.
He told me to reply back to you, for him, that your premise is based on a false assumption that Blacks, because of their race, are inferior, solely based on their skin color.
He said this is your deep held guilt, and a attempt at appeasing it, by wholesaling ALL Black folk as victims, and in need of the a white man own need to think he can help, rescue, a Blackman, because he needs it.
He said, no thanks, he is able to overcome many obstacles in his life, and that includes a white dude who thinks this crazy white privilege is holding HIM back as a human being....
I told him I would, but that you would not get it.....
Well, I respect his opinion, but not his judgment, He doesn't know me, and you don't know me, not really you don't and I don't really know you either. Maybe I should have spoken more carefully but I always give people the benefit of the doubt that they'd think the best of someone and make them prove that they deserve to be thought less of.
And it's not because of the color of their skin, but the History of the United States. This nation, in general, has historically allowed the powerful, regardless of skin color to abuse and create extremely negative environment to control those that benefit them. Whether it be though slavery, indentured servitude, Jewish Ghettos, the plight of the Irish and Italians when they came here, child labor, women, etc...
I'm not trying, nor do I want to rescue the "black man" I want to remove barriers that the past has built up, not just stopping them, but stopping anyone regardless of color or sexual orientation or religion or etc.... who doesn't follow the "traditions and heritage" of traditional white culture/power.
I was speaking in broad generalities, not specifics, so I wasn't specifically speaking about your boss, or any specific man/woman/child. And unfortunately the stats would back me up.
But it's awesome that he's in an environment, and many if not most other black people are in similar environments that allow them to achieve greatness, probably far greater than I will ever be. And yes, in general that's most of America today, but there are still remnants that need to be addressed.
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and it's not the blacks that are inferior, if anything it's the greed that has corrupted our culture in general that had made us ALL inferior