This is America, or so I am told. I wonder when a verbal observation became offensive just because others do not like it.
I was trying to speak to my son about this so called " white privilege."
It is a hard thing to explain as we are not privileged in anyway, you see I was a ward of the state, I was taken out of the home because my mom was beating me silly and the adopted family I used to have( I use the word family loosely) have never helped us, we haven't any outside help at all,its just him and myself. No Aunts, Uncles , grandmas to help emotionally. financially, just us. No father because he decided long ago we were not his problem, we haven't seen him in 9 years, nor do we hear from him.
We live on 1200 a month with rent being half of that, then there is the bills, and my son buys clothes at the thrift store and we live on beans, rice and whatever we grow in the garden.
Some how I am supposed to have a magic life because I am white, well I lived on the streets when I was young and I cannot tell you how many times I was kidnapped by pimps( black) and beaten to try and force me to work the streets for them, I was all of 13.
I managed to get a decent foster home in the end and straightened my life out.
Privileged ....hmmmm.
I was walking down the street and it was storming, I tried to keep my child close to the wall so he would not get so wet, along from the other direction was a very large black man, who stood in my way, called me a white bitch and pushed my son and myself into the street, and when I got back on the side walk, he proceeded to follow us shouting racist slurs.
My son has had his head stomped on the school bus and called stupid white boy, he was stabbed with a pencil and called ' white trash" all from black kids.
Now my son is a straight A's kinda nerdy kid with not a foul word coming from his mouth, he does not deserve this because he is white.
White privilege? Not here, and I will not be teaching it.
If someone gets arrested for doing something wrong, its because the did something wrong, not because the color of the skin. I will not be calling blacks African American, they are American. There are many types of blacks and I think its offensive calling them all African, because it isn't true.
Stop trying to get privileges because your ancestors were mis treated.
Every race has been subjected to slavery and hurtful actions of others, just ask the Chinese, Native Americans, Irish, Jews and many orphaned children forced into child labor , beaten and starved. Many children were adopted because families wanted free farm help and were often worked to death, girls were often raped and thrown out when they had a baby out of wedlock , ending up as prostitutes in the street until sickness and death took them.
I am white, and I approve this message........
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