My next @oprahsbookclub pick, “Caste” by @Isabelwilkerson, should be required reading for humanity. It eloquently examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America. Download a copy on @AppleBooks here: https://t.co/cAkzEPCFL3 #ReadWithUs pic.twitter.com/9WAXk7QP9r
— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) August 4, 2020
Oprah’s net worth is 2.5 billion dollars. Must be nice belonging to the billionaire caste.
An exercise in leftist sophistry I recently witnessed on another site:
White people have privilege because even if you are white and completely destitute, you still haven’t experienced hardship because of racism.
For you see, it is impossible for there to be racism against white people, since racism requires a historical context of racism.
And that historical context can never be developed in the future, since that would require racism against white people to occur, which we’ve already shown to be impossible.
Thus it will forever be the case that even the poorest white will be more privileged than the richest black, and hence the black should always be considered first when determining who to help out.
Ted Cruz is right. The truth is there is little racism in America. Our cultural separations result from education, economic success, and religion to a lesser extent.
Black folks are often looked down upon because of their childlike ignorance, welfare dependence, poverty and, most important, criminality. White people having the same characteristics are also treated the same way.
A lot of good whiteness did for the Irish during the potato famine. Oinkra doesn’t look like she has missed a meal in a long time
My Irish and Scottish dirt farmer ancestors reveled in their white privilege when they weren’t dodging the English!
The Klan burned a cross in front of my immigrant, Catholic and Polish, non-English speaking Grandfather’s house. That’s some serious white privilege there. The only solution, of course, was for him to work his way to success, which he did.
Come on now, Oprah has a point. If it weren’t for racism, she’d be a trillionaire, not just a lowly billionaire.
Greg, my guess is, if Oprah had been born white, she’d have twice the wealth. I think that’s how it works.
How did we whites, with our collective white privilege, fail to hold Oprah back from success?
“White privilege/whiteness” are the worst formulations you could give to the question of what smart Americans called the “badges of servitude.”
For starters, it hand-waves away 31.5 million people who are living in poverty, decaying communities and increasing drug abuse. It’s a sort of bizarro world boot-strap argument: “You’re still privileged, rural crackers. Unlike those millionaires in their gated communities over there.”
It’s an obscene mockery.
How much of the white privilege mantra is simply a mechanism to allow relatively well off whites to pour vials of hate over lower middle class and poor whites and feel good about it? The attitude of privileged, by family wealth, white kids to white and black cops I have found truly nauseating. Glenn Reynolds has noted that most class war conflicts in this country are disguised as culture war conflicts and he has a point.
Right on Dale Price