JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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Haven't these idiots heard of affirmative action???
Yeah my life as a white person is so hard. .
I know a guy who spent years going to night school to get a degree in computer IT, got certified as a Microsoft network admin and was making good money, finally, till his mom died and he had to go and take care of his Dad. After his father dided, he cant get another job just a few years later, and he has started a new career as a 58 year old pizza delivery driver.
Is that 'so hard?'
How about the white kid who grew up in a home led by two alcoholics who would beat him when they werent yelling and screaming at each other. Grew up and got married and was having a hard time managing the hard-wired tendency to resort to anger and violence when problems came up in his marriage. Finally after twelve years of marriage the wife left him and took the three kids to a location on the other side of the country. He missed them so bad he finally killed himself out of depression he could not escape because it came from the lonely reality he could not avoid all around him.
Is that 'so hard'? Is it 'privilege'?
I know anothere white guy who grew up as the only white kid in a hispanic neighborhood. He was in a fist fight nearly every day growing up, and his parents got him martial arts lessons to help him out some. He hated hispanics with a cold silent fury, and one day when I was teasing him about having killed some Mexicans if he could have, he stopped talking and I thought he was angry with me, but I finally understood he was hiding something. When he got back from the Gulf War in 91, he was a walking time bomb. He tried to do the normal life style, but he couldnt handle it and killed himself leaving behind two kids and a lovely wife. I heard his suicide note said that he was afraid he would hurt them, couldnt leave them, and killed himself before he might hurt any of them.
Treating people categorically by race and talking about how they have white privilege is just one more example of ideological racism and white guilt-bondage agit-prop.