White Privilege does it exist in America?
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That story was appalling.....This is a good example of 'white' privilege.....I must agree though, it has more to do with GREEN than with white........I felt horrible for the black man and his family....\n\nThat judge, should be impeached!
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Morals have little to do with what color you are and more to do with how you were raised. I think that in the USA, there is a large diversity in beliefs and moral values as that was the basis of the country.  This diversity does span from coast to coast and you'll find that people see things differently depending on how they came up.  There may be diversity, but the one common thing is that everyone knows there's a right and a wrong.
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Probally ours...take a look at the presidents of the US for the past 200 or so years...all white...
576192
It occurs to me that there are DAMN few people in America that are not decended from immigrants. If we had a bunch of illegal white people living and working in the USA, no one would be upset about it.
866983
I agree...on some forms I've seen the phrase "Euro-American" rather than "white." I wish this phrase/label was used more often.  The words black and white have such powerful connotations (white=good/pure, black=bad/evil). It should change.
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I don't think the majority of this country has a superiority complex. Government might... ha ha. Americans are self-involved and don't seem to care what goes on in other parts of the world. That might fuel the superior stereotype.
600474
Hell yes, white America are some of the biggest hypocrites in the world, but they will not pay willingly........................................
969051
Really, it matters not where you live as to wether your children will suffer any form of racial hatred or abuse, or not. I have lived in seven different counties in the U.K. and each time one of my children have suffered. My eldest daughter (12 y.o) was sexually abused by two classmates, my twin boys were targeted and bullied at two different schools because of their color, and finally my youngest daughter had her left arm and leg broken because she 'is not white' and 'wasn't allowed to play with the same toys as white folks'. I am an American citizen, I was born in West Virginia, but my father (who is Jamaican) married a beautiful white woman and my skin color is is btween the two. My wife is African (Morocco) and so our children are not white. \nSo, to answer your question, no, interacial couples are NOT wrong, we have every right to be a couple as the Bushes or the Blairs.
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i ask you this has the white male not become the minority? it certainly seems there are plenty of laws and loopholes to screw us out of jobs and promotions for underqualified applicants that may be a woman or of different ethnicity. what happened to the days of hiring the best person for the job?
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This is one of those I'll answer, hoping it's an honest question and not a goofy rant.\nWhite people can be discriminated against and it happens all the time, but can't be discriminated against in modern America for racial reasons.\nDiscrimination is NOT disliking another race...\nIt isn't even behaving badly toward those of another race...\nDiscrimination in modern America is institutionalized and has a component of POWER.  History has given whites a 'power' advantage over blacks in this country.  Whether we (as whites) choose to use that advantage or not, IT CONTINUES TO WORK TOWARD OUR FAVOR and gives us institutional and cultural edges.\nDiscrimination is the combination of the racial bias with the use (purposeful or inadvertent) of that cultural power.  Because whites HAVE that cultural power edge, they can't be discriminated AGAINST.\nWhat is frequently referred to as 'reverse discrimination' is -- if we're honest with ourselves -- sour grapes when someone else gets a break that we wish we'd gotten, whether we deserved it or not.\nNo, whites can't be racially discriminated against in modern America.
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I disagree.  Slavery was over 100 years ago, and US wasn't the only country to do it.  Granted civil rights didn't occur until the '60s, but now in US there is "affirmative action" which is basically reverse discrimination.  Any minority in the US has more opportunities at their fingertips than any white person will ever have.  The minorities merely have to reach out for it, but spend way too much time blaming "whitey" because it's easier.  Anything worth having takes time and hard work.  If a minority applied for the same job as i did, that person would get it over me, even if I had more experience, so I don't feel that the legacy is on Western man(which is another way to say white people)....I should not be held responsible for something ancestors did(especially since I'm Irish/NativeAmerican/German and mine didn't own slaves)  I feel that if you were born in this country you are American...end of story, Celebrate our sameness and quit shouting about our differences.
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It's called a 'double standard'. White Americans have the strength, stamina, backbone, intelligence and determination to build a country out of wilderness. I, personally, consider the source. It seems to come from people who still can't find anything in their own heritage to be proud of, so they bash us and ours. They try to bring us down to their level. I don't let it bother me. They show their racism every time they spout such bigotry. Let it roll off and remain above it.
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I KNOW THIS WHITE AMERICANS DONT KNOW SHI*T EVEN IF THEY STEPPED ON IT  LOL\n\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8321638919907380752&q=SPM&hl=en\n\n\nYEAH BRITAIN WAS A GREAT POWER , BUT THEY STILL HAVE THEIR LAND LOL  THEY ROBBED US OF OURS
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Below is an article from Race Traitor (http://racetraitor.org). I thought that being a sociology major that it might interest you.\n\n\nNow that White Studies has become an academic industry, with its own dissertation mill, conference, publications, and no doubt soon its junior faculty, it is time for the abolitionists to declare where they stand in relation to it. Abolitionism is first of all a political project: the abolitionists study whiteness in order to abolish it. \n \nWhiteness is not a culture... Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. \n\nVarious commentators have stated that their aim is to identify and preserve a positive white identity. Abolitionists deny the existence of a positive white identity. We at Race Traitor, the journal with which I am associated, have asked some of those who think whiteness contains positive elements to indicate what they are. We are still waiting for an answer. Until we get one, we will take our stand with David Roediger, who has insisted that whiteness is not merely oppressive and false, it is nothing but oppressive and false. As James Baldwin said, "So long as you think you are white, there is no hope for you."\n\nWhiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug culture and queer culture; but there is no such thing as white culture. Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet.\n\nBefore the advocates of positive whiteness remind us of the oppression of the white poor, let me say that we have never denied it. The United States, like every capitalist society, is composed of masters and slaves. The problem is that many of the slaves think they are part of the master class because they partake of the privileges of the white skin. We cannot say it too often: whiteness does not exempt people from exploitation, it reconciles them to it. It is for those who have nothing else. \n \nEither America is a very democratic country, where cab drivers beat up city councilmen with impunity, or the privileges of whiteness reach far down into the ranks of the laboring class. \n\nHowever exploited the poor whites of this country, they are not direct victims of racial oppression, and "white trash" is not a term of racial degradation analogous to the various epithets commonly applied to black people; in fact, the poor whites are the objects of race privilege, which ties them to their masters more firmly than did the arrows of Vulcan bind Prometheus to the rock. Not long ago there was an incident in Boston in which a well-dressed black man hailed a taxi and directed the driver to take him to Roxbury, a black district. The white cab driver refused, and when the man insisted she take him or call someone who would, as the law provided, she called her boyfriend, also a cabdriver, on the car radio, who showed up, dragged the black man out of the cab and called him a "nigger." The black man turned out to be a city councilman. The case was unusual only in that it made the papers. Either America is a very democratic country, where cab drivers beat up city councilmen with impunity, or the privileges of whiteness reach far down into the ranks of the laboring class.\n\nWe are anti-white, but we are not in general against the people who are called white. Those for whom the distinction is too subtle are advised to read the speeches of Malcolm X. No one ever spoke more harshly and crit
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I think there are cases where I have extra privileges for no other reason than I am white.  I also feel grateful for my blessings (being intelligent, healthy, etc).  I know that racism is real and there are many less-privileged people with fewer advantages than I have had.\n\nOn the other hand I don't think racism is the cause of people's problems as often as they think.  I think things are not so cut and dry.  If you want to pick one cause for things being unfair then in my experience, especially in the corporate world, it's not what you know it's who you know.  I've seen it many times: an undeserving person gets a promotion because he knows the boss.  I guess you can't blame people.  Everyone wants to help their own.
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U.S. land of opportunities why not? education is a right not a privilege
251731
Parts of that were a great question.  The world used to be governed by status.  There were nobles and serfs, blacks and whites, men and women - and they all got treated differently for no reason other than who they were.  Then the US came along and said everybody's equal.  But there's one last status left - marriage.  Married people have different rights and responsibilities than the unmarried.  They're taxed differently, given credit differently, even rent cars differently.  And it's all because of who they are.\n\nIs it fair?\n\nI suppose you'd have to look at the social costs and benefits of maintaining the last status.  There really were no benefits to discriminating in favor of whiteness.  But maybe a society that encourages marriage is better than one that doesn't.\n\nWhat do you, the viewer, think?