Diversity Etiquette: A Discussion on White Privilege

Blog by +Wanda Dorn 

White Privilege?! I call it hard work. Look at countries where the majority population is black. Would you live there? Most of those people live below any version of 'poor' that we can imagine; they live in hovels - go to the bathroom on the ground outside - disfigure females, which are considered property. There is no rule of law. America is the magnet for such people who are weary of slavery. If you don't see the irony in black people bad mouthing white people in light of what blacks do to blacks every single day and a thousand time worse, then my comment ends here.

This is as a result of our hard unpaid labour as slaves and institutionalized discrimination.

By the way, I don't go to the bathroom on the ground.

There are more White men who commit murder on White men per capita than any other group.  And the Queen sent her criminals to the shores of America to get rid of the Criminals.  This is what this country is built of.   White Privilege is when White people go in and brutally take what they want including the riches of other countries leaving millions of dead bodies behind - Native Americans and Black Slaves.

So let's stop creating victims of those of us who are as good as you, as hard working as you, and don't want people like you degrading them any more than you would want to be degraded.  There are good and there are bad in every group. And if the on-percenters weren't so greedy, most all of us would have maids to clean our toilets, including the White Appalachian Mountains and White trailer trash.  See name calling is bad no matter whose mouth it comes out of.

If you were so great, why aren't you a billionaire, in the White House and not sitting on your computer building your ego at other people's expense.  Why don't you tell the millions of White women to get off welfare and the millions of White men to stop drawing unemployment - according to you, White people are perfect, there should be no White murders, no White rapes, etc.

It is only a small percentage of Blacks who are poor or in jail and the rest of us don't and won't stand by while you villainize us.  When you do that, each time I walk into a store or to make a deal in my business, I first have to prove that I am over qualified first when a White woman with less to offer than me is believed, because of the color of her skin and people talking like you she gets preferential treatment. I worked as hard as she did to get there, maybe harder.  I pay as much taxes as you and that White woman above, my family and friends have fought in as many wars ... and we will continue to demand we be treated like it.

And besides we are talking about Americans, not Black or Whites from other countries. I could take hours breaking that down to you, but you needed to have attended my diversity classes, you and I would have had a great time.  I would have probably learned a lot from you, and I know you would have learned a lot from me.  In my diversity classes, we get down and dirty and all come up smelling like a rose with better understanding and tolerance.  I hope this addresses your concerns.

First of all you didn't come to these shores, you were criminals who were sent to the shores to get you out of their country because you were criminals.  You did not fight the civil war among yourselves, Black fought along side you.  The first shot of the civil war was shot by Christopher Attucks, a Black man.  You did not free us from slavery, we fought and died ugly deaths, we fought racism to the death to get our rights.  We don't have to tell you we appreciate your freeing us, they did it because of the economy, and we fought for equality.  You owe us reparations.  Those people who came to the shores as you put it, benefitted from 400 years of free labor.  If I had one free laborer for four years, I can't imagine how much more successful I would have been.   Have the inventions that ocured in this country were Black inventions, could have been more because Blacks couldn't patten their inventions, their slave masters did.  Just like the long lasting light bulb was a Black invention, not Graham Bell... the list goes on.

Stop building your ego insulting others.  Just stick to the facts and perhaps we can all live together helping each other and working together.  If you complained about the one-percenters hogging all the money, perhaps the poor wouldn't have to struggle so hard. 

Speaking of struggling so hard, ask yourself why if Whites are perfect, there are White criminals, Whites on welfare and the list goes on.  We can help change things, but we can't do it by name calling and denying the truth of our history.