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32020, your own words, once again.
Posted by chillsm00th, Tue Dec-06-05 12:23 PM
>I don't ask white folks to reject their
>white privelege, I ask them to use it to fight against
>oppressive forces.

ergo, you're fundamentally uninterested in challenging white supremacy itself. which is why you are a liberal racist.

>son. Shrug... you cannot ask white people to get rid of their
>white privelege, you can only ask enlightened white folks to
>try to educate other white folks about the reality of white
>privelege. Asking a white person to rid themselves of white
>privelege, is for a white person, to lock themselves at home,
>skin themselves, and do nothing except sit at home. That is
>impossible. Simply having white skin entitles white people to
>more than you are entitled to. What do you expect white folks
>to do and say?

LOL. so basically, rejecting white privilege causes an existential crisis for white people? guess what? DEAL WITH IT. don't try to justify holding on to white privilege because you feel that its absence will leave you w/o identity and/or purpose.

>"No, I don't want this job because my skin is white, sorry,
>give the job to a black man..."
>"Excuse me officer, you don't know, but I have a weapon on me.
>I look harmless and just like any other white citizen, but I
>am dangerous and could hurt someone."
>
>Does that seem logical to you?

no, that seems like some paternalistic bullshit that racists think: that black people want white people to give up their jobs for us based on our skin color.

>I would be interested to hear, a practical way for me to stop
>using my white privelege. It is not white privelege that is
>the problem, it is how it is used. Some people use white
>privelege, to inflict harm on others. Some use it to gain
>authority and control. However, there are those, and I have
>met hundred's of them, that use it to fight racism,
>oppression, inequality. It is our skin. You will never be able
>to have us reject it, as white people failed to influence
>black folks reject theirs. Did you simply accept that you were
>1 5th of human beings? ofcourse not, that would be to reject
>your humanity, your very biological make up. How do you expect
>anyone else in this world to do that? It is not logical, and
>is much more philosophical and impractical than what I am
>suggesting.

your skin != your humanity. that's racist in and of itself.