The Dark King
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https://medium.com/@elizabethgrattan/my-white-privilege-12804fb20697
Just read this piece on white privilege and it was very interesting. I appreciated how aware and insightful the author was but then I had a thought. So what if she's aware, so what if she acknowledges how wrong things are?
Does it change anything? Is it really a lack of education and overwhelming ignorance that marries people to this chaotic way of thinking where skin tone can and often times determines quality of life?
I often wonder what incentive does any white person have to want things change. Don't they have their own problems, their own goals and dreams to be met? What does an even playing field do for them?
It's the same issue many of us have in the Western world where we are upset about outsourcing and globalization. It's great for a lot of emerging countries who's standard of living has greatly increased but horrible for American workers who could have at one time earned a decent lifestyle with as little as a hs diploma but now people with Masters degrees are struggling.
When I sit back from an objective perspective removing my own personal well being from the picture I have to wonder.
What's in it for them to be fair? Why not let inequality push on since it ensures they're less likely to go hungry, less likely to go to prison, less likely to be unemployed, less likely to be homeless, less likely to endure the systematic injustices designed for the least amongst us?
Just musing would love to hear what some of you think especially the women.
Just read this piece on white privilege and it was very interesting. I appreciated how aware and insightful the author was but then I had a thought. So what if she's aware, so what if she acknowledges how wrong things are?
Does it change anything? Is it really a lack of education and overwhelming ignorance that marries people to this chaotic way of thinking where skin tone can and often times determines quality of life?
I often wonder what incentive does any white person have to want things change. Don't they have their own problems, their own goals and dreams to be met? What does an even playing field do for them?
It's the same issue many of us have in the Western world where we are upset about outsourcing and globalization. It's great for a lot of emerging countries who's standard of living has greatly increased but horrible for American workers who could have at one time earned a decent lifestyle with as little as a hs diploma but now people with Masters degrees are struggling.
When I sit back from an objective perspective removing my own personal well being from the picture I have to wonder.
What's in it for them to be fair? Why not let inequality push on since it ensures they're less likely to go hungry, less likely to go to prison, less likely to be unemployed, less likely to be homeless, less likely to endure the systematic injustices designed for the least amongst us?
Just musing would love to hear what some of you think especially the women.
