There is an achievement gap for black Americans: too few in college; too many in prison. The causes for this are complex, but the solutions have got to come from focusing on how to help the community itself. This is HARD. Formulating policy is really difficult.
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Putting the structures in place which support positive social change is really tough. This is complex, detailed, difficult work. I also agree with people like
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should be undertaken without fear -- because we want to make things better. Performative white self-flagellation is completely useless here. And white blame just alienates people & is divisive. And this needs to be a broad-based initiative.
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We need to think about structural changes which will enable more black Americans to achieve their full potential and cultural changes which will nudge them in that direction (people need nudges). This is going to be hard but I am a Pinkerian optimist & I think it can be achieved.
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But it will be achieved step by step through the work of improving schools, providing health care, building housing, reforming the police (this needs to happen irrespective of racial issues, frankly) etc. And through spreading positive attitudes. Not by demonising whites.
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I think it also sends a message to POC that they are helpless victims rather than agents who can influence or shape their own destiny
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Yes, it's defeatist.
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It may be hard to believe but POC don't approach their lives as a collective of defeated people. The issue is as individuals they magically wind up in the same places, same jobs, etc. So the collective thinking represents the views of those in power, etc.
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I'm sorry, I can't see how that relates to what I wrote.
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It's not a "rather." They're two distinct phenomena that interact. The point of saying that white privilege is a thing isn't to "demonize" white people, as you say, but to point out mutable problems with the status quo that white people don't see.
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Pointing out problems people don't see is great. But take that "white" out of there. Perceptiveness isn't a function of skin colour.
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If the "white" in the phrase makes you uncomfortable are you ok with calling it "privilege," or "racial privilege"?
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It's silly that we need to get into a discussion on what term for this phenomenon would be politically correct enough for you to accept it into your vocabulary so that you can agree to think about the actual topic.
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Wealth is the ultimate privilege. Not skin color.
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When one group of people is targeted and excluded because of their skin colour and another group isn't because of THEIR skin colour, I'd call that privilege, wouldn't you?
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No. I would call that discrimination or racism.
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There's just one group that is not subjected to these negative effects. That IS privilege. I think you are totally missing the point
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Not at all. I think our focus should be on helping those experiencing discrimination on the basis of race, not berating people for their skin colour. The latter achieves nothing.
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You're not helping by denying the experience of POC, you're part of the problem IMHO. I see little "berating" of white people but a lot of justifiable frustration that we don't get it. Largely a straw man argument. You're aiding racism, intentionally or not
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No we isn’t. Law is clear and reality seems to be opinion!
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I call BS. When the police treat POC differently, what is "the law" doing about that?
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Providing a remedy albeit in a flawed and often inaccessible justice system
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