“I’m used to things not going my way. News, reduced down to their mugshots and petty crimes. But extend the logic behind the belief in black privilege into other areas, and there could be more strange conversations over race. society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about There are even whites now who try to pass themselves off as black activists because it's a career booster, Shapiro says. While the study explains that non-White cops are just as likely to murder Black Americans, this does not disprove the fact that law enforcement is a predominantly White space. It's part of a larger transformation: White is becoming the new black. ), even if it is paying the minimum wage. We need to channel our good intentions by speaking up In a similar vein to number two, many people use this to juxtapose the BLM While I’ve always felt that sitcoms need many a couple episodes (hell, even a couple seasons) of scrutiny before one decides whether or not the program is trash, I do believe it’s fine to simply not like a show.But, my problem with these complaints were that they were loaded with the ideology that Black-ish simply couldn’t present blackness with the same effectiveness that The Cosby Show did. These organizations have different jobs but all strive to solve Black issues just as police, firemen, and paramedics have different jobs but all intend to “protect and serve” the community. Race is not treated as an incidental background detail but part of the show’s identity. Not only does that include protecting themselves from direct violence done by White people, but it also includes fighting and killing each other over essentials. Meanwhile, .0012% of the White population is murdered by the police. In a proportional world, the rate of police killings by race would align with the population demographics. Lets go through them one by one: Side note: There is also a deep misunderstanding behind some of the more “radical” calls behind BLM. for the sake of our own comfort. Excuse me if I get a little offended, because I didn’t see all of this outrage when everything was happening to all of my people since we were stuffed on boats in chains.”. How do you go from having a nice family Halloween party to the next week being destroyed by news from a doctor?

(CNN)Here's some good news for all you black folks complaining about racism in America. Afterwards, says Barris, “so many black people were like: ‘I didn’t know that.’”.

She says she only knew that because she happened to live around poor black people. College professors practicing "affirmative grading" hold black students to lower standards than others. “Being a politician he didn’t back pedal, he sidestepped,” he reveals. If one group benefits, we all benefit, because we share the same common enemy: white supremacy. Often, this can lead to people who are not racist but are just mis-informed or easily fooled believing them. “She was like: ‘Dad! “We go where the business is and where the man ain’t looking. These people need to be educated. Being black is such a privilege that some white people, like Rachel Dolezal, a former NAACP leader, have tried to pass as black, some say.

Aries, I think we all saw this one coming... Zodiac signs make it VERY easy to predict a personality trait that each person would have in certain situations.

Yes, there are people that get scholarships but none of that comes close to the majority of people that do not have access to education.


But that’s not the focus of this blog. A lot of white people like to sanitize Dr. King’s words and life’s work Black-ish began in September 2014, during the Obama era. Perhaps the three most well-known fallacies are present in this argument. One, you’re a racist white supremacist that wants to keep the system going by using this phrase that is loaded with verbiage and thought to associate Black communities with violence or you’re uneducated in the origins and history of policing, the deep affects of white supremacy, and the actual purpose of the Black Lives Matter Movement. “I grew up in the ’hood with nothing, in an almost exclusively black neighbourhood,” Barris explains.

black people have lost their lives to gang violence, it’s crucial to keep in suffering can be heard. Don't get me wrong, we definitely saw some red flags from Clare in episodes one and two of this season of "The Bachelorette," but after (spoiler alert) Yosef got sent home last night, she's quickly become the villain of her own season, waving some pretty bright red flags we can no longer ignore. When Dre is accused of not being horrified enough about the result, he makes an impassioned speech over the strains of Nina Simone’s Strange Fruit. Imagine being a black person in the US wanting to go for a jog… knowing that a few months ago a black man called Ahmaud Arbery did just that and was shot dead by two white men. To tolerate racism in our social system is to be complicit.". You wouldn’t ask a police officer to put out a fire even though they are supposed to protect and serve because that’s not what they specialize in. Clare Regelbrugge, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Sign in to comment to your favorite stories, participate in your community and interact with your friends. That's a privilege that whites don't enjoy. He said no, but there was another type of privilege he wanted to talk about: Confused by his answer, I asked him to give me an example of a perk that I enjoyed as a black man that he couldn't. Get your day started right — and keep that budget tight. Beware of people who try and expand on and complicate an issue, not to shed light on other important and relevant issues, but to serve their own purposes of discrediting an argument they don’t agree with/don’t like.

"Being black confers the advantage of rhetorical victimhood," says Shapiro, host of "The Morning Answer" radio show in Los Angeles.

See the parallels? "Accusing others of racism is a convenient way of avoiding discussion on uncomfortable topics ranging from murder rates to poverty rates to single motherhood rates.". realize our mistakes as white allies and work on them together.

"But being born white in a rural backwater in West Virginia is not an advantage over being born the son of.

Common Argument #5: I tried asking a black friend to explain privilege to me once, and they seemed annoyed. We wait all year to sprinkle some Christmas magic into our lives and forget about all the troubles of the world — especially in the year of COVID-19. Everyone has a mental health story.

It ends with a plea for unity, which has been widely acclaimed – a relief for Barris. oppressed.

Anthony Anderson who plays Dre – and who has played golf with the new president socially and has his phone number (which he won’t share) – insists it won’t. violations. Yet Lucy is given a reasonable argument, saying she voted for Obama twice but now “it’s eight years later. If your instant reaction to people pushing for justice and the destruction of a system that has roots in white supremacy is “what about Black on Black crime?” then it shows that you are either one of two things.

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The 2020 presidential election is less than a week away, and if that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will. They would be suspended for missing too many classes or being late; she was placed in a gifted program, even though she also had attendance problems.

The concept of black privilege is still so new, though, that some of the nation's most acclaimed scholars on race didn't even know it existed. As for the people who do this purposefully, the media and the politicians who try and hoodwink the believing masses with fallacious arguments to try and discredit movements not in their interest… we MUST call them out.
The term "check your privilege," a reference to white privilege, has gone mainstream.

Black privilege may be new, but some of the rhetoric defending it is at least two centuries old. Birth into wealth is an unearned advantage. He says some whites resist the term "white privilege" because they think they're being blamed for something wrong. That’s nearly double what you’d expect in a society where police killings are evenly distributed across all races. But rather than focusing on the specifics, it approaches the issue by looking at how to talk to children about difficult news events. That is false.

He longs for the day when Americans stop talking so much about race, which only increases division.

The origins of gangs were not violent, but when you add in the effects of white supremacy, it becomes so. The exclusionary racial nature of the GI Bill was repeated throughout U.S. history. “I agree with the premise of Black Lives Matter, People often use this saying to proclaim that there's a “war on police,” ignited by the BLM It is very commonly used by those who argue against positive discrimination initiatives. Wallis, who grew up in a white working-class family in Detroit, says they received special help from a massive government program that was largely denied to black families. that black activists haven’t said already, so I feel that it’s necessary to So, before you close out October, here's a brief run-through of what you need to know about domestic violence, whether you're going through it, survived it, or know someone who has. The first street gangs in the United States were White. Even though Domestic Violence Awareness Month is coming to an end, it is so important to remain alert and aware of exactly what domestic violence is, who can be affected by domestic violence (hint: everyone), how to get help if you need it, and even how to be the best support system possible if you know any survivors. While some of these arguments might appear logical and even convincing at first, they are all fallacious nonsense. In the high court's 1883 decision, Justice Joseph Bradley wrote in the majority opinion that there must come a time when blacks cease "to be the special favorite of the laws.". Congress had passed a sweeping Civil Rights Act in 1875 that banned discrimination against former slaves in public places. Sure, he may have said people should "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content Black people don’t face some sort of genetic predisposition to crime. It is only when we become educated as a population that we can see through their lies and hold them to account. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Those who argue for the existence of black privilege, however, don't deny these grim numbers. police officers, we need to keep saying “black lives matter.”.