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[–]kittykahoots 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

White privilege is a monoscopic "solution" to all of life's problems for people of color. This enables them to heap all of their life's ills into one singular point of failure. They would have a great life if only they had been born white or were afforded the perceived privileges of white people.

This is no different from fat people thinking being thin will make life better or poor people who dream of winning the lottery only to file for bankruptcy a year latter.

The only real solution to this problem is to elevate all people. What I mean is that instead of schools and places of work doing diversity hires or acceptances (aka picking lower performers for the sake of having different colors of skin in the office/school) we should put an effort towards creating more equal opportunities for people to have similar educational and training opportunities.

School vouchers; allow those irregardless of color to take their federal monies to school that actually produce results. Why are subpar schools getting 11-12k in funding per student and yet students are less prepared today? (https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66)

The second part of the solution is for those broken communities to heal themselves. Why are police called over missing nugget sauces, when kids are truant, and a whole host of problems that people should deal with themselves? Form neighborhood watches, quit tolerating bad behaviors under the guise that "this is just our culture". IMO black people need to solve black problems not ask the government for more oversight (like a parent) to make life fair.

Was their a time when being white was an advantage? Yes. But that does not hold true any more- they need to find a new excuse.

[–]Optimus85[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for your perspective. It's easy scapegoating certain groups of people for one's shortcomings or downfalls and everyone, regardless of ethnicity, skin colour or whatever, has been guilty of doing that at a certain point in their lives. I'd say it's inherent of human nature.