What does it mean to be white?

[Wyzrd]

Ok guys, first I apologize if this is not an appropriate topic or the wrong spot for this. This isn't really related at all to the typical Hide content, but I needed to ask several people this question for a class I'm taking.

Hopefully some of you guys will respond with an honest opinion and gut feeling response to this question of , "What does it mean to be white"?

Please don't worry about your answer being offensive or politically correct or not. I want people's honest opinion here.

If you're not comfortable posting your answer here, feel free to PM me, or you can email me your answer at ([email protected]).... Thanks all!

 

[hlee]

It means that because of a quirk of evolution, my skin produces less melanin than some others...

 

[Wyzrd]

Thank you for your awesome response, but unfortunately it's not the answer my professor is wanting. I'm hoping to get the nitty gritty that most people are scared to say because they might be looked at as being an ass, or insensitive, or potentially racist. But again, thank you for responding.

 

[Slash0311]

It means nothing to me. I don't wake up of a morning and say "thank the stars I'm white". Even asking the question is offensive to me. This country sees people succeed every day by hard work, not skin color. It sees thugs, gangsters, and wanna-be gangsters get thrown in jail every day not because of skin color but because of their actions. It also sees people work hard and make something of themselves because of not hanging a label on skin color as being a hindrance. Too many people want to always place blame on others rather than facing their choices and making a change.

Who would you want to hire? Someone with pants down to their ass or in a suit? Skin color has very little to do with it but more to do with upbringing. Not having a proper upbringing and education means a lot of the current generation know nothing other than asking "what can the government give me?" That's what needs to change rather than trying to blame a person's failures on color.

Good luck with the class and your professor / instructor is an idiot for even making this an assignment.

 

[Wyzrd]

I understand this is a pretty loaded question for some. Again, if you don't feel comfortable posting an answer here, please PM or email me your answer. Thanks guys!

 

[Wyzrd]

Slash, thank you for your response sir. I know this question might offend some as it is a pretty charged question that will make some feel uncomfortable. I'm just trying to ask as big a crowd of people as I can, white, black, brown, etc, in order to get different view points. Again though, thank you for taking the time to answer this. I do appreciate it.

 

[MtnCreek]

What's your intentions? Are you looking to tell the professor what they want to hear?

Also, can't help myself here... just how white are we talking?

 

[Wyzrd]

To be white means I get to wear sun screen and/or sun protective clothing while working outside because I have plenty of sun damage from my youth. I have "Good Hair" and my offspring have less of a chance to inherit some diseases that others are more apt to get ALSO my offspring have a higher chance of inheriting diseases that some are less apt to get. Is there anything else?

I am very thankful for my PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS and FAMILY for instilling in me proper work ethic, the need to progress in life, pride of country, the importance of family, the need for education on many topics and the love of good food. Motivation tuned to the proper direction made me what I am today. Not my "whiteness".

Cypressjeff, thank you for taking the time to answer this sir. I do greatly appreciate it.

 

[Wyzrd]

What's your intentions? Are you looking to tell the professor what they want to hear?

Also, can't help myself here... just how white are we talking?

My only intentions are to get as many different viewpoints as possible in order to have enough info to write a required essay. No, the only requirement my professor had was, she's not looking for the scientific melanin answers. She is hoping to hear honest, gut feelings and opinions about this question. She doesn't care if they're racist or offensive or PC.

 

[pmclaine]

I am not white I am red pretty much. So red a young black kid once looked at me and said "Man, you so red, you so red, you purple!"

My red/purpleness has got me nothing.

No answer will be sufficient for your professor unless you say your being white provides you better access to jobs, careers and political access thus proving you have been sufficiently indoctrinated and will be willing to tear apart our Republic when asked to do so.

My redness and this Republic have given me nothing other than the same opportunities Colin Powell, Barack Obama, Thomas Sowell and Ben Carson have grasped and achieved success with.

"Content of your character, not the color of your skin........"

 

[2ndamendfan]

Wyzrd your getting the answers most if not all conservative white people are going to say. And personally you have two choices. 1, use these answers and tell your professor to fuck off and quit "race baiting" or you can go to a Antifa area of the web and USE their racist answers to suck up to your professor.

I am not sure what your assignment is regarding fully but if it is NOT a MATH assignment and the instructor has preconceived notions of the outcome then he/she is not teaching based on fact and logic but on feelings and believes. A belief is not a fact!!

PS. I see your post above about what the paper. So my answer is . Being white means nothing. I never think about it. I know that doesn't help but that is how I feel.

 

[EddieNFL]

... unfortunately it's not the answer my professor is wanting.

Currently it means being embarrassed by the educators in our country.

Slash summed it up pretty well.

 

[FS1]

It means I am privileged.

For 40 years I have had the privilege of going to the back of the line of Education, Jobs and Govt services

I have the privilege of being called a racist cracker if I disagree with a black man. But he can call me anything he likes because he is oppressed.

I have had the privilege of watching all the black schools get money thrown at them with no results. While white schools get almost nothing and still produce people that can read and write.

I have had the privilege of watching cops be demonized for shooting black people, while black people shoot each other by the thousands while asking why the cops won't stop it.

I have had the privilege to get up everyday and go to work and save so I may give my family the things they need.

Finally I have the privilege of always being wrong even if I am right.

That's what it's like to be white.

 

[Wyzrd]

Thank you guys for your answers. I honestly don't know what my professors intentions are with this assignment. I'm guessing she's just wanting to have a healthy debate about this. I apologize for not clarifying, but this is all for my Anthropology class. We are covering a section that has to do with different cultures and discrimination, hence the topic and my assignment. Anyways, thanks again everybody for taking time out of your days to give me your responses.

 

[Wyzrd]

It means I am privileged.

For 40 years I have had the privilege of going to the back of the line of Education, Jobs and Govt services

I have the privilege of being called a racist cracker if I disagree with a black man. But he can call me anything he likes because he is oppressed.

I have had the privilege of watching all the black schools get money thrown at them with no results. While white schools get almost nothing and still produce people that can read and write.

I have had the privilege of watching cops be demonized for shooting black people, while black people shoot each other by the thousands while asking why the cops won't stop it.

I have had the privilege to get up everyday and go to work and save so I may give my family the things they need.

Finally I have the privilege of always being wrong even if I am right.

That's what it's like to be white.

FS1, thank you sir for responding to this... much appreciated sir!

 

[Guy Montag]

It means you wear white slacks after Labor Day, and love the Beach Boys.


The fact that your teacher would assign such nonsense is testimony to the state of "higher" education in America today.

 

[Veer_G]

It doesn't matter how pale my skin is, how much I talk through my nose, or how many times in my life my particular genetic idiosyncrasies have fostered a favorable reaction on the part of others. Being white means nothing, be it from within or from without, because I am first a Sikh in the eyes of a somewhat uneasy world. That filter overlying my Caucasian aspect negates whatever passive injustice your professor would like to think that my skin perpetrates. My only advantage in life is that I can get a taxi anywhere.

 

[308pirate]

If this is the kind of "education" that you're paying for, you're being scammed.

I suggest you take your money elsewhere, so that you may get an adequate ROI on your education spending.

- A tanned-skin "white" (whatever the fuck that means) man of southern European ancestry married to a very pale-skinned "white" woman of southern European ancestry, both of which happen to be hispanics

 

[Mike_in_FL]

I guess I am descended from Noah's lightest colored son. I would say it's safe to say my ancestors moved to a cooler climate after that. I wonder how this answer will go over in class.

 

[MtnCreek]

Ask this of any other racial group and you'll likely get very different answers. Whites are the only racial group that cannot advocate for themselves, at least not without penalties. Ponder on why that is when working on your report on what it means to be white. Something else you could consider is who's white and when? Could someone be white for one purpose and identify with another group for another purpose?

Is this class or assignment focused on one particular aspect of anthropology? Are you directed to look at social differences or maybe biological?

 

[Wyzrd]

Gentlemen, thank you all for your responses to this. I should have enough responses between the answers here and from others I've asked, to have a good starting point for my paper. Again, I appreciate everybody taking the time to answer this.

 

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I dont know what yall are talking about......im taking full advantage of my "white privilege".......

i mean the white privilege checks ive been getting every month are great.....

and the perks dont stop there.......when i bought my truck, the salesman actually had the audacity to try and make me pay for it....now i had on a tshirt on ao he could clearly see how white i was.......and its not like i had a tan either, so he couldnt claim so was mexican or anything.....

well i asked to speak to the manager, and upon giving him the official honkey handshake, he immediatelly appologized, and fired the salesman on the spot, and handed me the keys to my new truck for free.

 

[Wyzrd]

Ask this of any other racial group and you'll likely get very different answers. Whites are the only racial group that cannot advocate for themselves, at least not without penalties. Ponder on why that is when working on your report on what it means to be white. Something else you could consider is who's white and when? Could someone be white for one purpose and identify with another group for another purpose?

Is this class or assignment focused on one particular aspect of anthropology? Are you directed to look at social differences or maybe biological?

I do agree. I am half white (Herman and polish) and half Filipino. Part of my assignment is to give my own opinion about this question, and then ask other people of varied races their opinion, and then to write a paper with all the results. As far as my class, it is just an intro anthropology class, but we are currently covering a section dealing with different races, cultures, and discrimination. Our professor directed us to focus mainly on the social differences versus biological.

 

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[Greg Langelius *]

Being white means something, just ask anyone who insists that black, or yellow, or red, or whatever lives matter, with the unsaid corollary that white lives don't even get an honorable mention.

What I got from Martin Luther King's time on the planet was that the color of an individual's skin is not supposed to have any meaning. Your professor would appear, from his insistence that the subject is important enough to be the subject of a required essay, to be either either illiterate, insensitive to King's message, or just plain looking to start another pointless, senseless race argument.

Accordingly, I'd suggest that somewhere within your required essay, the following quote could appear:

"Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Your professor may need to stand corrected on this.

Greg

 

[j-huskey]

It is my classification by governmental designation of race, based on appearance, however my DNA says a little different
My DNA says I have three different classifications of racial blood.
If I choose the least % specific DNA, I am told I can't be X because I don't look X, and the generalized "Race X" shuns me and treats me like shit, because I don't look like Race X, telling me to go back to my own kind.
If I choose DNA 2, the U.S. government still considers me a "defeated enemy still under treaty" whose bloodlines still don't have full US rights compared to all the other DNA in the US.
So, the government classifies me as white because I look white and SCOTUS gives me the least amount of rights because of past "white governmental treatment" of minorities.
Doesn't matter the government led, approved, and pushed said mistreatment of minorities, I've been chosen by SCOTUS to be considered "white" and pay the tariff for past governmental actions I took no part in, nor agreed with.
I have been made a serf of big government, expected to work, pay more tax to subsidize big government and non workers, to make do with less, to give up more than all other races, to be faithful to all big government edicts, while being a punching bag for all "haters" of anything white, and expected to keep a smile on my face and like it.
That's a lot of being "white" in today's world that I have NO CONTROL OVER.

All I really want, is to be seen as "All men are created equal", be given the opportunity to be free to choose my path, to create my path by the working of my own actions, to succeed or fail by my own actions, to enjoy the "fruits" of my actions, and to be judged by the success or failure of my actions, rather than by "race" of government designated classification of white. I just want to be an American person.......
And most of my "white life" has been exactly that, an American judged on the merits of my actions, so, tell your shit stirring teacher, that "being an American judged on the merits of my actions" is what my life means to me, that being "white" is merely a governmental classification of a race, that the government chooses to call my mixed race person.... I'm really a reddish tan.

 

[Slash0311]

I dont know what yall are talking about......im taking full advantage of my "white privilege".......

i mean the white privilege checks ive been getting every month are great.....

and the perks dont stop there.......when i bought my truck, the salesman actually had the audacity to try and make me pay for it....now i had on a tshirt on ao he could clearly see how white i was.......and its not like i had a tan either, so he couldnt claim so was mexican or anything.....

well i asked to speak to the manager, and upon giving him the official honkey handshake, he immediatelly appologized, and fired the salesman on the spot, and handed me the keys to my new truck for free.

Damnit man!!! You can't let the secret handshake out of the bag!!! We've kept that hidden for years!!! Know everyone will want to know it...

 

[MtnCreek]

Our professor directed us to focus mainly on the social differences versus biological.

Your professor wants to walk around a landmine without stepping on it. You'd be wise to follow that lead.

 

[pmclaine]

Thank you guys for your answers. I honestly don't know what my professors intentions are with this assignment. I'm guessing she's just wanting to have a healthy debate about this.

Whats the next assignment?

"In ten pages or more explain why you stopped beating your wife."

 

[shootist2004]

I worked hard in high school and graduated in the top tenth of my class. I applied to Rutgers but was turned down so I went to Devry Tech.
Getting in was easy I just wrote them a check. About a year later I saw an old friend from high school (black kid who finished last in the class)
and asked him what he was doing.... he said he was going to Rutgers. I asked him how he got in and how he afforded it and he told me "it was free
cause they be liken the way I play basketball." So I couldn't go to Rutgers because some moron took my seat. That was my first taste of white privilege.
When I was forty I got a job as a janitor at an adult bookstore peepshow arcade. Finishing up at work one day I was confronted by a Mexican gentleman who said to me
"we do the jobs you wont do!"....I had to chuckle under my breath as I washed the sperm from my hands....Ive spent the better part of my life as a cab driver and a
security guard. Now Im 63 making 12.40 and hour with no pension and I keep hearing how lucky I am to be white. Every week one third of my paycheck
goes to Uncle Sam so lazy people can eat steak and lobster while I treat myself to chopped meat on weekends........to make matters worse I have to
listen to millionaires like Kaepernick tell me how old white men should just die already......yup, its sure great to be white................

 

[supercorndogs]

If this is the kind of "education" that you're paying for, you're being scammed.

I suggest you take your money elsewhere, so that you may get an adequate ROI on your education spending.

- A tanned-skin "white" (whatever the fuck that means) man of southern European ancestry married to a very pale-skinned "white" woman of southern European ancestry, both of which happen to be hispanics

You have to pay the troll tole, to get them good jobs yo.

 

[SilentStalkr]

I can tell you what it’s like to be white. It has caused me a lot of grief. No, simply being white in itself hasn’t caused me grief but this false narrative of modern day society certainly has. In fact, I could argue that I have had to work 2-3x as hard as my black friends and female counterparts just to get where I am. You see I have worked tons of different kinds of jobs, gaining experience in many different things, gone to college and got 2 degrees, done a lot of things most people could never do or want to do and I currently work 2 jobs to make my $50-$75k a year. Everything I have gotten I have gotten because I have worked my ass off, not because of some white privilege. I assume that’s where this was going since that’s all they like to talk about in the news these days. No sir, me being white hasn’t done me any favors. I think it has caused me to work harder and you know what I am ok with that because it has made me stronger. Most of my black friends and female friends would agree. Some of them that are successful even feel disappointment because they have admitted that they didn’t feel like they earned their spot, so to speak. In fact, every female I know makes significantly more money than I do. So, no I don’t believe this racist/gender discrimination problem exists on the level the media makes it out to. Does it exist? I am sure it does somewhere but not on those levels that they want us to believe. Now that’s in regards to the so called white privilege.

Mad far as just being a white person goes, it doesn’t mean anything more than others have already expressed. I get up and go to work everyday, I put on my pants one leg at a time like most people, my blood is red when it hits oxygen like everyone else, I listen to talk radio, rap, country, rock, metal etc. I can go on and on. I watch college football on Saturdays like most people I know. I have Indian, middle eastern, white, Mexican, American Indian and black friends like most everyone else I know. I can go on and on. I don’t think of myself any different than I do anyone else. I think this special privilege, gender problem, race problem etc. is all in people’s heads or falsely created by bigger societal problems that are the root of the issue. And most societal problems stem from a breakdown in the family unit but that’s a whole different conversation. We can argue the reasons as to why that has happened in a different thread but population density and the fall of the family unit has most definitely contributed to a large majority of issues we see manifesting themselves today.

 

[Rthur]

"Race" as regards to skin color is a social construct created by people with nefarious ideals concerning a "pecking order".
This then justifies either the preferential or discriminatory treatment of chosen "race".
Many example are available to justify the abuse and or preferential treatment of said subjects.
Your "professor" is fishing for "racial" leanings to justify his already current opinion on the matter.

R

 

[308pirate]

"Race" as regards to skin color is a social construct created by people with nefarious ideals concerning a "pecking order".
This then justifies either the preferential or discriminatory treatment of chosen "race".
Many example are available to justify the abuse and or preferential treatment of said subjects.
Your "professor" is fishing for "racial" leanings to justify his already current opinion on the matter.

R

+1

 

[Wyzrd]

Guys, yes this is a charged question and so far I appreciate all the answers. As far as I know, this assignment I have to do is purely for academic reasons. Yes, people have agendas, but I feel that my professors pedagogical purpose in assigning this was just to get many different perspectives and then have a healthy, hopefully non confrontational discussion about our findings. It will be interesting. I myself am trying to be neutral in this as I just need to collect info. This is my first post here on the Hide that is non firearms related. I love this site and have learned a ton from lots of guys here, and I'm glad that you guys are helping me out with something like this, totally non related to what we frequent this site for. Again, thanks guys!

 

[Redmanss]

The sooner race stops being a discussion, the sooner it stops being an issue.

And pay professors lip service, get your A, and think for yourself otherwise.


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[oneshot86]

redman has said it best, put that in your writing...
i will say, Mike C is really white, like really...me, not so much, got the dago skin thing going...
where i grew up we would have worried more about being italian vs being white, god damn micks on the other side of the tracks were bastards

 

[j-huskey]

In other places and discussions, the general consensus of being white in the generations over 40, is working for the man, because the horatio Alger success story was propagandized in education for a long long time.
In that same time frame, non white people were of the opinion that white privilege would keep them working low wage low place.
Then came the 60's revolution against all the previous values, and being "something" changed to today's issues, where the 60's revolution changes didn't produce the expected results, and the people younger than 30 want something more stable and better than exists now.
People holding on to the 60's revolution create chaos to push their agenda. we have "today's world" because of this.

 

[QuickNDirty]

Yeah, you're getting scammed, dude. Spend your money elsewhere.

 

[2ndamendfan]

The sooner race stops being a discussion, the sooner it stops being an issue.

And pay professors lip service, get your A, and think for yourself otherwise.


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It pisses me off every time I see some form to fill out and it asks the race question. Have you guys seen the latest form 4473 it singles out hispanic/latinos (10a vs 10b). I get the use of race for identity but for a college or loan application that seems wrong.

Screw the lip service to the professor. I have taught my daughter to stand up to her teachers if needed. She doesn't need to be a bitch about it. When she was in K-12 I had a few trips to the school but that was fine. Now she is in college and pretty sure she is getting a little bit of a reputation, she can hold her own.

If the professor chooses to lower your grade to a level you don't think you deserve, call him/her out on it. There are avenues to follow after that. Don't be a dick about it, but stand up for yourself. One thing that took a couple weeks to get through to my daughter is that K-12 was Free (oh fuck don't start) but she had to be there. College is her money (mine actually) and she needs to make sure she is getting what she expects for her money.

 

[QuickNDirty]

It pisses me off every time I see some form to fill out and it asks the race question. Have you guys seen the latest form 4473 it singles out hispanic/latinos (10a vs 10b). I get the use of race for identity but for a college or loan application that seems wrong.

Screw the lip service to the professor. I have taught my daughter to stand up to her teachers if needed. She doesn't need to be a bitch about it. When she was in K-12 I had a few trips to the school but that was fine. Now she is in college and pretty sure she is getting a little bit of a reputation, she can hold her own.

If the professor chooses to lower your grade to a level you don't think you deserve, call him/her out on it. There are avenues to follow after that. Don't be a dick about it, but stand up for yourself. One thing that took a couple weeks to get through to my daughter is that K-12 was Free (oh fuck don't start) but she had to be there. College is her money (mine actually) and she needs to make sure she is getting what she expects for her money.

Fuckin A. Some of my professors when I was in would bitch at me for getting too far ahead of the class, and would refuse to answer questions about things they didn't cover in previous lectures.

At least in my profession, I think there are only a few ($$$$) options for universities that aren't complete scams. I cut my losses after executing a program I wrote that took 26 online tests for 18 credit hours worth of classes, around 1500 questions, in an hour with IIRC 92% being 100s and the rest being high 90s and no one thought that was suspicious.

I had reached a point where I was paying thousands of dollars just to run a program that would take my tests for me. Didn't have to study, do homework, or any of that shit and still maintain a good GPA.

I redirected those funds to good books and spent a few years grinding on all the shit I cared about, and it actually worked out pretty well.

Lots of times in there I was dealing with subjects I didn't know if I could grasp or not, or have any idea how I'd get a job as an engineer without a degree, or if all the time and money I was blowing on this idea would ever pay off, but I stuck with it.

It's not until I get around Google and IBM senior/principle engineers that I begin to feel like a retard. They do have some really fucking smart people working for them.

 

[Threadcutter308]

Guys, yes this is a charged question and so far I appreciate all the answers. As far as I know, this assignment I have to do is purely for academic reasons. Yes, people have agendas, but I feel that my professors pedagogical purpose in assigning this was just to get many different perspectives and then have a healthy, hopefully non confrontational discussion about our findings. It will be interesting. I myself am trying to be neutral in this as I just need to collect info. This is my first post here on the Hide that is non firearms related. I love this site and have learned a ton from lots of guys here, and I'm glad that you guys are helping me out with something like this, totally non related to what we frequent this site for. Again, thanks guys!

I think (and I hope) that you have already found that most people here on the Hide don't really give a shit one way or another about someone's color or heritage. If anything, differences tend to be "positive seasoning for the soup". I have found it interesting in my relatively short time here the extent to which that is true and it's both refreshing and re-assuring. I find it particularly interesting that there seems to be a lot more diversity of thoughts and opinions here than the majority of those shown by the left in the MSM. At least, there tends to be a higher level of rational thinking here. Sure, there are disagreements periodically, but by and large, dialogue tends to be fairly civilized.....at least compared to all the groups that soros and hildebeast are funding.

Others have already said it, but I would like to second (third, fourth, fifth......) the notion that you do your own thinking and not let anyone else do it for you. It sure sounds like your prof has a thinly veiled agenda. IMHO, it's a ridiculously myopic, narrow minded, agenda serving question to ask. From my standpoint, I have (physically) never been anything other than what I am, which is White. How could I possibly make any valid or rational comparison to anything else ?

I don't typically think about someone's color at all. I don't care in the least bit. A person's character is what matters to me. What I do think of periodically is the fact that I am lucky, fortunate and blessed to have been born in this country and not some third world shit hole. I am particularly grateful that there have been and continue to be those that put themselves in harms way to protect this country. They have my deepest appreciation, admiration and respect.

 

[Mike_Honcho]

Thank you for your awesome response, but unfortunately it's not the answer my professor is wanting. I'm hoping to get the nitty gritty that most people are scared to say because they might be looked at as being an ass, or insensitive, or potentially racist. But again, thank you for responding.

Your prof wants wants to know about the nitty gritty........

I’d be interested in asking the prof who selected the topic for him, as well as what is substantive conversation he hoped to evoke?

In today’s day and age only a fool would answer such a question in a formal setting such as a paper turned in, graded and in their name.

Your prof is either an esoteric nit wit, or he is strident member looking to fuck you all.

 

[Mike Casselton]

redman has said it best, put that in your writing...
i will say, Mike C is really white, like really...me, not so much, got the dago skin thing going...
where i grew up we would have worried more about being italian vs being white, god damn micks on the other side of the tracks were bastards

White my ass! I'm a cross of pink and red. ;^)

My "whiteness" comes from my mother's Irish side.
She's an actual hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee.
A real Hatfield for those who know what that means.
Yep, she grew up poor white Irish hillbilly trash.


What does it mean to be white?
When I was younger, it meant absolutely nothing. Then in 4th or 5th grade, our government decided to start a program called busing.
For those unaware of it, they decided to redistribute kids in schools all over Hillsborough county and the rest of the country.
When the new kids came to our school we didn't think much about it. Apparently the new kids didn't like it. There was a lot of name calling, fights, theft and general discourse all over our school. We wondered what the hell had happened.

Thankfully, my parents taught me to accept people for who they are, and not judge them based on skin color.

After a while, a lot of the bad behavior disappeared. We made a lot of friends.

When I became an adult, the division of black, white, yellow, etc seemed to disappear. Life was easy.
I joined the USAF and worked with plenty of people that weren't white. Never did I experience any racial issues in the 21 years I served.
Fast forward 14 years after retirement.
Some how, in the last few years (8 or so)
racial tensions have skyrocketed.
The racism I saw as a kid thrust upon others has now reversed.
Yes, I'm going to say it. As a white male Republican over 50, I have to walk on eggshells with what I say. The millennials treat me like I'm a criminal, like a disease that needs to be eliminated.
The faults of the world apparently rest on my shoulders and the shoulders of my peers.
Throughout my life, I've treated everyone with the same respect. As I get to know a person, they are in charge of whether the respect grows or diminishes.

As a white male I'm sickened by the media.
Sickened by the behavior of certain groups.
Sickened by the rioting in the name race relations.
Sick of being the person all the blame is heaped upon.

Have I been passed over for a job or promotion because of my race?

Absolutely!

I've not gotten jobs because of my gender. At least the boss was straight up about it. He told me "Mike, you're more than qualified. I just like looking at tits".
Can't blame the guy...


There's hope though.

What gives me hope is simple. I live in a very diverse community.
A trip to Publix for groceries can ease the tension. Usually I'll get into a conversation with another shopper and these culturally diverse people have the same concerns, likes and dislikes of what's happening in our country as I do.

It shows me what I've always known.
Blaming others for your own faults, causes unnecessary tension, resentment and gives birth to hatred.
Taking charge of your life and your actions allows one to move forward, not backwards.

Treat others as you wish to be treated and getting along is quite simple.

If everyone did that, being white wouldn't matter.
We could actually live up to the words in the bible where all men are created equal.
And yes, that also includes women in my eyes

 

[Mike Casselton]

Threadcutter308

Threadcutter,
your post pretty much fills in where I lost my train of thought.
Can't say I would disagree with anything you wrote. Wish I would have said it that well

 

[TheGerman]

It means that for some unknown reason, I am part of a race that cannot make an excuse for any bad life decisions, bad luck or anything that prevents me from being better off, more intelligent, wealthy or gives me the inability to not go out and kill people of my own race.

Oh and apparently I am supposed to be part of some super privilege club (kind of like costco?) but they must have not gotten my new address because I never got a white privilege card and don't know who to call to give them my new address to send it to. If anyone does know please IM me because I'd love to finally use it.

 

[Threadcutter308]

Threadcutter308

Threadcutter,
your post pretty much fills in where I lost my train of thought.
Can't say I would disagree with anything you wrote. Wish I would have said it that well

Thanks Mike, but I think you've been doing pretty dad gummed well yourself........

 

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Oh and apparently I am supposed to be part of some super privilege club (kind of like costco?) but they must have not gotten my new address because I never got a white privilege card and don't know who to call to give them my new address to send it to. If anyone does know please IM me because I'd love to finally use it.

same thing happened to me....you need to contact the Office of Caucasian Affairs......and theyll get you straightened out

the office is located next to the fudge counter at your local bass pro.

just be aware they are going to test you for "whiteness"....youre gonna have to sing 3 country music songs, prove you can get a sunburn, and eat a tuna sandwich with extra mayo....

 

[TheGerman]

same thing happened to me....you need to contact the Office of Caucasian Affairs......and theyll get you straightened out

the office is located next to the fudge counter at your local bass pro.

just be aware they are going to test you for "whiteness"....youre gonna have to sing 3 country music songs, prove you can get a sunburn, and eat a tuna sandwich with extra mayo....

Thanks!

I feel like I'm missing out on a ton of sweet privilege deals!

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Only White People are stupid enough to appear in Infomercials...

Not one 'brother! Because they aren't stupid enough to wear a Snuggie...