White Privilege Is Real
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 1st, 2014
Good morning!
The comments referring to Al and the article that he posted inspired me to post this write. If you don’t think other republicans think the same same way, you are very mistaken, and up for a rude awakening. Vote the racist and sexist repubs OUT. Your chance to do that is NOW. Don’t miss out.
From the Huff Po:
Next Time Someone Says ‘White Privilege Isn’t Real,’ Show Them This
Think white privilege doesn’t exist in America? Consider just how much the color of a child’s skin changes his or her odds of escaping poverty later in life.
Roughly 16 percent of white children born into the poorest one-fifth of U.S. families will rise to become a member of the top one-fifth by the time they turn 40 years old, according to a new study by Brookings Institution researchers for the Boston Federal Reserve.
Those are fairly bleak odds, but for poor black children the odds of making it to the top are even longer: Only 3 percent of black children born into the poorest one-fifth of families will ever make the leap to the top income group, according to the study.
Even if they don’t always make it to the top of the income ladder, poor whites escape the worst forms of poverty more often than poor blacks. Only 23 percent of poor white children will still be counted among the poorest Americans when they turn 40, while a whopping 51 percent of poor black children will, the researchers found.
This chart shows the social mobility levels for white Americans. The horizontal axis shows where families start out on the income ladder, and the vertical axis shows the percentage of children from those families that end up at each income level by the age of 40.
As you can see, the poorest white Americans have a decent shot of ending up in a higher tier than their parents — 58 percent of white children from the poorest families end up in one of the top three income brackets.
But for black Americans, escaping poverty is far more difficult:
Just 22 percent of the poorest black children manage to get into the top three income brackets by the time they are 40. And note that there aren’t even enough black families in the top income bracket to do statistically significant analysis.
The findings in the paper, co-authored by Brookings economists Richard V. Reeves and Isabel V. Sawhill, run counter to the beliefs of some, like Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who argue that racism in this country has diminished to the point that white privilege no longer exists. O’Reilly visited The Daily Show last week and argued that any person, regardless of race, can get rich in America so long as they work hard.
But opportunities for success are clearly not that simple, for a host of reasons: The myriad legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, decades of racist housing policies,educational disparities, employment discrimination, and a race-fueled War on Drugs.
Where you start in life financially matters a lot, too: If you’re born in the poorest 20 percent of families of any race, yet still earn a college degree, you have roughly the same chance of being stuck in the poorest bracket as rich high-school dropouts do of staying in the richest bracket (16 and 14 percent, respectively).
Upward mobility is a much harder climb than it would seem.
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Readers: You think upward mobility is tough now. Put the repubs in charge and you’ll experience just how tough it can really be (since they don’t seem to think “white privilege” even exists! – yeah right. They’re just racist and choose not to see. You know nothing will get done to with that kind of thinking)
Or…do the smart, logical thing and ensure the Dems are successful and experience just how much more Obama can really do for you…for everyone. The choice is yours. Your future lies in your hands, and how you mark that ballot. I trust you’ll do the smart, logical, right thing, that is best for our country.
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November 1st, 2014 at 11:43 am
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November 1st, 2014 at 12:07 pm
America is a country of hypocrisy. It is a place where if you are white you are treated better than the OTWs in there country whether or not you are a citizen.
The color of your skin is everything in America. I have been visiting there for 19 years. I get treated better there than I do in my own country. They worship blond blue eyed people.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:07 pm
Sure we like white people better but that’s because we are the ones that father this country.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:08 pm
Fuck you and the author of those statistics. It is just white bashing in a new suit.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:09 pm
If you take away what the white man has contributed to this country what do you have but a bunch of parasites eating away at our contributions.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:11 pm
I love coming to America. They treat me so well. They love my Australian accent. Sure you have ghettos. But is it white america’s fault that there minorities don’t work as hard as they do.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:14 pm
Most whites know they are getting over because of the color of their skins, but they like to lie about it. It is just another in-your-face thing they can do while they hold the majority.
But time will change all they. They will not give up without a fight. They will try as hard as they can to hold on to their privilege position.
They will try to rule by SCOTUS when they lose POTUS and the Congress. But notice to SCOTUS when that time comes yours will end. Then we will appoint new judges to those seats.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:19 pm
My first time writing in. I suffer a lot at the hands of white America. I am a citizen like they are but the males in my family are abused by the police at will.
They are stopped strip searched, handcuffed and forced to lie in the hot streets. We are sometimes pawed and molested by the cops when we are pulled over.
They take our money and frame us with planted drugs. That is why they don’t want marijuana legalized because it is used as a weapon and a threat if we resist their crimes against us.
I don’t hate all white people, but the fact is most are despicable either because they look the other way when the worst of their race does terrible racist things or they pretend that they are treated equally as bad as we OTWs are.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:20 pm
Sure we get a little more better treatment but that is because there are more of us and people tend to treat their own better.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:23 pm
I used to hang out with an asian friend. She never brought up that she thought about the differences between us until one day at the mall when she was forced to get behind a white lady with two kids.
I said that it was not racist that the clerk just wanted to give a mother a break. She screamed at me that I was condoning racism and never spoke to me again.
It is articles like this that make race relations difficult.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:25 pm
When I don’t use my name I get treated just fine because I look white. But if it is a situation where my name comes before I show up, the racism is very apparent.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:30 pm
I am a Cuban. I live in Florida. Here most of the time I am treated as if I am white. I don’t have an accent and I speak english very well.
My family votes republican because they still hate the party Kennedy was part of because of the bay of pigs. Me I vote democratic because I am aware of “white privilege.” I have benefited from it over hispanics and other OTWs.
White privilege is not only real, 99% of white people are aware of it. They deny it because they are saying “so fucking what, you can’t do shit about it.”
November 1st, 2014 at 12:35 pm
The way I see it from my family’s point of view what does it matter if the country gets better and we as whites lose what our forefathers gave their lives for, White Privilege.
I’m voting republican. I don’t think they will be good for the entire country or even for the country period. But I do know they will do what it takes to hold off this demographic change I keep hearing about.
It frightens me to think I as a white person will be a minority in my own country. The republicans will stop this from happening.
November 1st, 2014 at 12:53 pm
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November 1st, 2014 at 3:50 pm
I’m married to a Japanese man. He tries to ignore the privileges I get when we are out. If I have the children we always make out better than if he approaches with them.
The way I look at is this won’t change, so why make a big deal of it.
November 2nd, 2014 at 10:49 am
It’s real. So fucking what. We deserve it. Fuck the jews, niggers, rag heads, and slopes.
After November 2, 2014 we will have our country back. That is after we impeach that nigger in the White House. It is the White House for a reason.
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:08 am
At least you are honest John#16. I am tired of white people pretending they don’t know that they are privileged for being white not for any particular thing they do.
If you are white you don’t have to deal with racism! You don’t have to deal with people following you through stores or refusing to hire you or housing discrimination. The cops don’t pull you over for ‘driving while white’! You don’t get stopped and frisked walking down the street in New York city! Don’t you see how privileged you are?
So shut the fuck up about being poor, overcoming enormous obstacles, being mistreated etc. If that happens to you, it is NOT because of the color of your skin but something a member of your own race has laid upon you.
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:17 am
If you are still believe there is no white privilege, then listen how one white boy, John Scalzi, feels white males should have the privilege to discard the word because it bothers them to hear it.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:30 am
White america has no problem using the term “race card.” But they want to claim that using the word “privilege” is bad because it is just too loaded to be useful.
How is that since it accurately describes getting something one didn’t earn because it is given, granted, or available only to a particular race.
That’s your calling “a spade a spade” white America.
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:34 am
Frankly I’m tired of blacks saying that black race-based hostility towards isn’t racism because racism requires power to back it up.
If you nigs hate us because of the color of our skins, then you are every bit as racist as a white person who hates your black asses because you are niggers.
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:44 am
This comment goes out especially to Women and OTWs of all colors.
VOTE DEMOCRAT for your future in America. I do not suppose any of you wish to be treated as second class citizens.
If you believe that this is your chance to be treated like a Human by the Republican candidates voted in, you are mistaken. Unfortunately you will always be thought of as second class by the Republican white man . . . even white Women will be told how their bodies are not theirs — Not as important as an unborn fetus and if it is you vs the fetus, it will win. You will be forced to cooperate and even die if necessary in order for the fetus to survive and live.
Please vote Democrat or suffer the consequences. White Women are notorius for not coming through and expecting others to vote in their place. The only way to be sure you voted for the right candidates is to vote for them youselves.
HOWIE
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:52 am
Equality is a lot more important when you are being deprived of it. The same applies to power. Having the power to carry out your bigotry is what racists had in Germany.
It is the same power whites had for 200 plus years in this country, Today, that power has just dimmed a bit, but it is the same power white cops have to kill OTWs at will. That is racism.
Not liking a race because of the race has no power if you can not use that dislike to disenfranchise or harm that race with impunity. Your dislike is strictly an opinion. An opinion is bigotry. It is powerless.
Power is important if you are deprived of it because it prevents you from making racism just an opinion, bigotry. Without it, assholes like Douglass#20, get to use their bigotry with the power to deprive the targeted race or group of equality and even their lives. That is racism.
I doubt Douglas#20 would switch positions. That is what his race is trying so hard to prevent, the coming demographic change. It is also why they deprive OTWs, at every opportunity, of using their voting rights at the polls.
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:21 am
As a white person I think there’s an important point hidden in the term “white privilege” that OTWS see that most in my race don’t.
A lot of what racism is about is just OTWs being denied their rights…not that white people have unearned privileges that they didn’t deserve, but that non-white people get treated in unacceptable ways that they don’t deserve.
But there’s also this fact: if you’re in a society where a significant sector of the population is discriminated against and disadvantaged, that gives you advantages. If the folks at the jobs I’m applying for, or trying to get promoted in, subconsciously discriminate against black applicants, I am in fact MORE likely to get a job there than I deserve, or to get promoted, because without that discrimination it might have gone to a better-qualified OTW instead.
Alternately, I can expect my race to be considered “standard” or “normal;” the fact that I have a race at all and that it’s only one of many possibilities becomes nearly invisible.
The truth is that the overall system of racism does end up providing certain systematic undeserved advantages to white people.
I think this fact, unrealized, ends up serving subconsciously as the source of some resistance to anti-racist efforts. Sometimes, it might actually happen that an anti-racist effort takes something away from me that I would have gotten before, however trivial.
And because human beings all tend to interpret everything we have had in the past as ours by right, when something is threatened to be taken away from me, I will feel like I’m being unjustly attacked, that I’m losing what was rightfully mine, and that it’s OTWs who are unjustly pushing for special privileges.
One can see this same behavior by Christians when they react to resistance to the privilege that Christians enjoy in America. I’m a Christian too, so I mean no offense.
Christians will often very sincerely, genuinely feel that their right to religious freedom is being attacked, when in fact all that is happening is that other people are asking for their OWN right to religious freedom be respected, which unfortunately means that Christianity cannot maintain its unjustly privileged status in the public sphere.
The term “white privilege” DOES tend to be upsetting to white people, but maybe there’s no way around that. If we’re going to be able to respond to the problem of racism sensibly, white people need to realize that NOT everything they have historically gotten by being white was a right. Some of it was unjust privilege.
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:39 am
Lucy,ST#23, I agree with what you’re saying. And I think you’re right that this blindness to the advantages that come with being white in America allows a lot of racism to go unchecked.
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:49 am
This is scary. Guam is not prepared for Ebola,
Dr. Vince Akimoto, a Guam Medical Association member, is assisted by his staff in putting on protective gear as part of an Ebola preparedness drill at American Medical Center yesterday. The purpose of the drill was to demonstrate the recommended protocol medical professionals should take to handle the Ebola virus.
A leader in Guam’s medical community contends the island is not ready for a possible case of the Ebola virus, although lawmakers and other government officials have said otherwise.
“The truth to be told is that the island is not prepared,” said Tom Shieh, president of the Guam Medical Association. “To tell the people of Guam that we are prepared is basically lying to the people, and I think that’s wrong.”
Shieh said private medical clinics have so far received no logistics or training support from the government of Guam.
Shieh also said GMA has asked Public Health multiple times to reach out to its community of doctors to teach them about the virus and to provide training and support, but the help hasn’t come.
The medical association represents more than 200 physicians and allied health professionals, and its members provide care for more than 75 percent of Guam’s population, Shieh said in a press release.
Disagreement
Patrick Lujan, Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services emergency preparedness manager, disagreed with Shieh’s statements and said the island is, in fact, ready.
Lujan said in terms of personal protection equipment, the island is prepared.
“We cannot say that we are not ready whatsoever because we are ready and we are getting more ready,” Lujan said. “We’re ready to a degree because we have things in place if one or two (Ebola cases) comes through the island.”
Lujan said Public Health has put together a task force and is constantly meeting with the airport, Port Authority, the airlines and other agencies to give briefings on Ebola.
Lujan acknowledged a gap between the preparedness plans in the government and private sector.
“The government works with each other,” he said. “The government works well with military. We need to work better with the private sector.”
Some private clinics are taking matters into their own hands.
Mock drill
Dr. Vince Akimoto, a GMA member, held an Ebola preparedness drill yesterday to practice and demonstrate the protocol medical professionals should take to handle the disease.
Akimoto held the drill yesterday at the American Medical Center in Upper Tumon. He created a mock scenario of an infected family of three and practiced what the clinic would do to treat patients with Ebola symptoms.
As part of the drill, he and his two nurses donned a face mask and wore trash bags over their scrubs. The team assessed the patients’ symptoms in their car.
Akimoto said in the case a person was symptomatic of Ebola, he would not have the patient enter the clinic as a safety precaution.
He advises any person who feels they have Ebola symptoms to call the clinic beforehand so medical personnel can prepare for their arrival.
“Mock trials are good. It allows us to look at gaps and areas to make improvements,” Shieh said.
Lujan was present for the drill and said he provided Akimoto with ways the drill could be improved.
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Me, I tend to accept the word of the Head of the Guam Medical Association. Hafa Adai
November 2nd, 2014 at 12:17 pm
[…] Vicki: I found your comment interesting. I am going to assume you are white, since you are experiencing the “privilege, right? I guess if you are, it is easy to say, “…this won’t change, so why make a big deal of it,” when it appears from your comment that you aren’t the one feeling the angst from racist actions. […]