black privilege exists and while being rampant, is denied by most all of them. a long read suitable for saving and reading when time arrives;
Author’s note and disclaimer: as with all matters concerning race and intergroup conflict, this essay examines whites and blacks as a collective. As with almost any phenomenon under the sun , there are invariably outliers, exceptions to the rule. Although such outliers obviously exist, they do not negate overwhelming trends. Nor should they require constant mention in seemingly endless qualifying statements.
Readers are doubtlessly aware of the many insufferable harangues about so-called white privilege. That notion could not be more offensive to those whites alienated or even dispossessed by an increasingly dystopic society defined by increasing economic uncertainty as well as ever compounding social ills. Many suppositions of white privilege are an outright lie, a fantasy that all enjoy “undeserved benefits” and coast through life, as if this were the land of chocolate and sunshine, of gum drops and sweet kisses. Much of the rhetoric surrounding white privilege is not only non-sensical, but contradictory. Some of the rhetoric leaves the impression that, as part of “white privilege,” most whites are well-to-do, trust fund baby sorts. Many advocates of this lie insist this is not the case, acknowledging there are poor or disadvantaged whites, and yet, in practically the same breath, carry on about matters such as inter-generational wealth, while also endorsing false analogies such as race metaphors where different people start at different starting points, with whites invariably starting closer to the finish line than blacks. Much has been written to dismantle the lie of white privilege, and so it will be dismissed summarily and out-of-hand. Not nearly enough, however, has been written about black privilege. Unlike its fabled counterpart that has been droned on about incessantly by leftist pigs and the assorted band of multi-culti mousketeers and racial agitators of varying hues of brown, there is much to corroborate both the existence and pervasiveness of black privilege. As circumstances become ever more dire with ever worsening demographics, these and other related topics bound up in race will only become more pressing and urgent with the passing of time.
This examination of black privilege reveals three abstract tendencies, three general principles that characterize this pariah that so many are all too cognizant of, and yet so few dare to mention except in hushed tones in places where voices are less likely to carry. A key, central characteristic defining black privilege is the taking of seemingly endless race-centered benefits on a chronic, inter-generational basis. This is compounded with the most extraordinary license, a sense of entitlement, on any number of things as explained further below. Finally, such license and entitlement is afforded to blacks on a unique standard conferred solely on the basis of being black.
One of the most immediate and striking features of black privilege is the twisted social norm whereby racially charged insults or words of disparagement are given special, unique status comparable to the otherwise dormant doctrine of “fighting words.” In all other scenarios, harsh offensive words do not dispense with the societal expectation and legal duty to refrain from physical violence. As the “fighting words” doctrine has become more and more a dead letter in all other contexts, this pertains to even the most offensive insults directed at a wife or girlfriend. If, however, a white person insults a black person, particularly with a racial insult or slur, more and more elements of modern society regard it as increasingly acceptable for the insulted individual to react with violence. In many ways it is even encouraged............more...........
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