Black privilege?

When one newly elected Democrat congress woman attacked her conservative opponent, claiming he had white privilege on his side, I began to suspect that this new batch of Representatives might not know what they are talking about.

White privilege is a myth manufactured in the minds of liberals to explain anything bad that happens, a kind of magic potion that serves as an excuse for why African Americans after nearly 60 years of concentrated effort by the U.S. Government hasn’t yet managed to achieve what many liberals envisioned or predicted.

And nothing so far, including AOC’s recent New Green Deal proposal has done anything to convince me otherwise.

If a bird shits on someone’s head, some liberal in some elite college is going to write a thesis explaining how it was caused by white privilege.

The same would be true if someone slips on a banana peel – since clearly white men’s policies over the last century resulted in exploitation of the native Americans and other indigenous people who harvested it caused that peal to be in that particular spot at that particular moment so that that particular African American can fall.

The theory of white privilege rivals the flat earth theory in practical application. But generally, it follows the logic that white people who live in a racist society automatically inherit advantages that black people do not.

So, kids who grow up in the suburbs, where there is little crime, schools teachers aren’t scared to death to work in, and eat dinner home with a family generally consisting of a mother, father, and siblings will do better in life than blacks who grow up in the hood, where brothers shoot other brothers (and shoot sisters if they’re bad shots), whose parents (if they have any) are drug attics or drug dealers put away in jail, and go to schools that are in such deplorable conditions that they might be considered an environmental disaster area, and are so full of violence the only teachers who want to be there are those who couldn’t cut the mustard in a white suburban school or are secretly molesters, or perhaps merely machoistic.

It is clear that whites have all the advantages – if you completely ignore the billions and billions that have been shoveled into urban districts to try and to make those areas safe and to bring up their schools to the same standards as in the suburbs, or you ignore the fact that not all white kids actually have it any better, living not in suburbs, but in rural places where their father’s are hacking from black lung after years working in coal mines, and mothers prematurely age after having gotten pregnant for the first time at 12 or 13 and have kept popping kids out until the rip old age of 20.

Or whites in farmlands whose bread and butter has been scooped up by immigrant labor coming across the Mexican and other borders to work at starvation wages even below the starvation wages white farm labor worked for prior to their arrival – leaving white kids in equally dire straights and struggling to get a grip of their white privilege long enough to get a good meal.

While privilege assumes that poverty is a black condition and that poor whites somehow have an advantage over poor blacks, when the vast majority of aid to deal with poverty goes into urban (mostly black) places to make certain kids there have the fundamental necessities such as skateboards, cell phones, and weekly visits to the nail salon.

White privilege is strongly associated with the concept of reparations for slavery because of the belief that black people have been held back by the experience and that European whites were responsible. This ignores the fact that blacks in African sold blacks to traders – many of whom were European, but some were also various breeds of native Americans, and the fact that a number of native Americans also owned slaves, and that in some cases, former black slaves even owned slaves, or how many whites opposed slavery in the north and the south and worked actively to end it.

Racism – unlike God or Big Foot – does still exist in America and was not just generated in the deep south where they drive race cars and drink moonshine. Many whites in the north -- largely European immigrants (who liberals love today and have strong feelings for especially when it comes to the prospect they might be kept out of the United States by Trump’s wall) opposed the freeing of slaves, condemning Lincoln for the emancipation proclamation, because they accurately anticipated a mass move of slaves North that would steal their jobs. Not that the jobs were much better than slavery, since corporate towns often owned the houses they lived in and sold them (at exaggerated high prices) the food they ate and blackballed them from getting jobs in other similar towns if they objected and beat the crap out of them if they dared to join a union.

The mass movement did not happen immediately after the Civil War but almost a century later in what is called The Great Migration when blacks arrived in ill-equipped urban centers in the North, overwhelming many of the already strained resources. Crumbling infrastructure send jobs to other locations. Better equipped whites fled the cities with their rising crime rates, increasing poverty and inadequate services in what became known as White Flight

Blacks for the most part got stuck with what remained such as schools named after ancient political entities at a time when those political figures were still flesh and bloods. While many Americans soon discovered the fact that the streets of America were paved more with lead than with gold, blacks also found lead as one of the minerals they could count on in their drinking water.

Education is the big key to this concept of white privilege, since black kids – as pointed out in a recent editorial dealing with Rutgers University – are underrepresented, and that most black kids are at a disadvantage when they are forced to compete head to head with the better equipped and socially stable whites.

This ignores the fact that black colleges in the United States have existed since before the American Civil War, many of them located in what was considered the slave states, and massive programs have been in place since the 1960s to provide equal opportunity for blacks to become successful.

In places like New Jersey and to some degree the rest of the country State and federal money poured into the urban centers in an effort to rebuild the structure there as to provide African Americans with equal opportunities the whites in the suburbs enjoyed.

This, of course, meant more than cities getting regular visits from Mr. Softy trucks to equal Good Humor trucks prowling suburban parks, money thrown around like that often doesn’t get spent appropriately. Incompetence and corruption followed. Even black leaders, who claimed to have the heart of their people in mind, lived the highlife, driving expensive cars, wearing expensive clothing, living in expensive homes – while the people around them starved or worse became victims of another aspect of poverty: black on black crime.

Although clearly enlightened by well-meaning and isolated professors in college, white liberals got a taste of ghetto conditions starting in the 1990s when odious laws had cleared the streets enough for them to feel safe to return, replacing Mr. Softy trucks with gello store, and corner coffee shops with Starbucks. They also discovered what they could not see at a distance: crumbling schools, terrible roads and bridges, and social conditions they did not encounter when watching Friends or Sex in the City on TV in the suburbs.

These, of course, really were the privileged whites that the congresswoman claimed make up the essence of white privilege, and whites that became cheerleaders in college, condemning themselves for their privilege without actually giving up any of those privileges – talk about having your cake and eating it, too.

Unfortunately for this congresswoman who accused her black opponent of benefiting from white privilege, she hasn’t a clue what she is talking about, and like many radicals and liberals throws around the word “racism” like a curse word, condemning anyone successful as being in league with white supremacists or worse.

Once you wave the flag of racism, there’s no arguing with it, even when in most cases it isn’t true.

In some ways, white privilege is more like the old myth of the greener grass next door.

Liberals look at successful white people and automatically assume the successful white person had some advantage a black person didn’t have.

Liberals wave around statistics to show the great disparity, pointing to how many fewer black doctors or lawyers (god help us) there are, or how fewer black students are in this college or that, but do not understand what it means to get there.

Many who invoke white privilege confuse “providing opportunities” with “outcome” and so assume that if black students aren’t in college, whites somehow had an advantage – even when society has spent billions upon billions to equal the playfield, often giving blacks “a more equal” opportunity through programs such as affirmative action.

What might have been White Privilege in 1860 or even 1960 is an illusion today when so many opportunities are available and are part of a massive financial effort to make right what slavery and other factors created in the past.

We do live in a competitive society in which if you don't get your kid into the right preschool, he or she most likely will never get into one of the better colleges either.

This is something liberals know very well, but we do not see many liberals taking their kids out of elite pre-k to make room for a poor black kid either.

Black kids do have a disadvantage, but it has nothing to do with white privilege – except that many of the kids that come out of white homes come from stable supportive families, and many of the kids coming out of the ghetto do not. But to claim whites have a privilege is to ignore the vast number of poor white kids from rural and other parts of the country that do not get into those schools either.

The fact that Asian and other minority kids attending the same urban schools as black kids manage to succeed invalidates the whole white privilege argument.

Call it class privilege maybe, where rich kids do better than poor, but to claim this as a race issue is bogus.

While disparities do exist, the reasons are more complicated than having a black woman attack her black opponent.

This concept of white privilege is largely a myth created to explain something that other people do not want explained, why after all the resources we have put into this over the last half-century the disparity still exists.

The idea of a fair society is to erase colored boundaries entirely and to create opportunities that will elevate black to the same positions that white currently have, not to burn down a neighbor’s house because you don’t have what they have or to hold them for ransom to settle some imaginary grievance from generations past.

Society has tried for the last half-century to do even the score, sending billions upon billions upon billions of dollars into the community to help African-Americans and other minorities through programs like affirmative action and Head Start not to mention the massive welfare state which helped try to maintain a basic level of finance and medical care.

Where did all that money go and why was it ineffective? People like this congresswoman likes to think that there is racism, but it really is something else entirely.

While racism does exist in America it is hardly the mass movement liberals want to make it out to be or what media portray it as. In fact, calling people racist eventually turns them into racist just out of spite.

We have spent more money set up more institutions created more programs and done much more than was ever envisioned in the Civil Rights Act over the last 60 years to make conditions equal and yet for some reason everything has failed.

For this congresswoman and for the radical left want is the same outcome.

They want every kid to get everything they see in the candy store, whether they have earned it or not, whether they have the same skills, the same motivation or more importantly the same family support people elsewhere have.

In other words, the congresswoman doesn’t merely want black kids to get the same opportunity, she wants them to be guaranteed the same results.

White privilege is a crock