If white privilege was real, why don't Colin Kaepernick, Barack Obama, Bubba Wallace, and many other half-white people identify as white? Simple.
Because white privilege doesn't exist.
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Let me refer you to the “one drop” rule.
Also, minority communities have historically more accepting of multiracial people than white communities have.
If white privilege was real, why don't Colin Kaepernick, Barack Obama, Bubba Wallace, and many other half-white people identify as white? Simple. Because that would be lying.
Because the racists don’t want to share said privilege, nor did they want people of different races to fraternise and realise that in the end, the differences are just skin-deep, so they spread the notion that, once you have any amount of non-white admixture, your bloodline is tainted forever.
Right, right, right.
@Malingspann #47631
Sorry to say that you just don’t understand what white privilege is. I researched it so I could be informed before I made the wrong comments.
I would call most of the men you mentioned coffee-coloured, rather than white, because like your cup of coffee, they are a mix of both. Someone who does pass for white would be Mariah Carey: I didn't know she was part African-American for years, but probably should have, by her singing.
As we have seen recently, white privilege is still very real.
Gee, why don’t people of colour try to escape the prejudice of people who base their entire opinion of them on imaginary caricatures closing off all further logic and the input of their own senses at a mere glance at the colour of someone’s skin or perhaps just from assumptions made from hearing/reading their names by attempting to correct (which even non-assholes often resent) the prejudiced party who have already made up their minds about the person in front of them and are currently tuning them out and mentally replacing everything they say with cartoonish ebonics and chimp noises and assuming whatever the noises are they are leading up to a criminal act, emphasizing the white half of their heritage which is something more overt racists despise spitting invective about miscegenation and requires the other party to be willing to believe there is any white ancestry and not ascribe to the “one drop rule” or generally have degrees of how much they care about race beyond “not pure,” and uttering the phrase “I identify as…” which invokes a visceral emotional reaction of pure unreasoning hatred opening the floodgates for another kind of bigotry altogether that could well make them the target of people whose bigotry does not normally concern race but identity?
All in a purely self-serving, opportunistic way that somewhat bolsters the racial divide by emphasizing the line being drawn completely ignoring if not actively minimizing the underlying problem and incidentally giving you fodder to use in broad stroke smears about being inclined to opportunism and dishonesty saying whatever will get them ahead trading dignity and trampling their integrity underfoot for superficial gains undermining the legitimacy of their grievances?
Could it be because that’s unimaginably stupid, not how anything works, and beside the point? Or that such actions only make sense to the narrative racists push that the entire fight for civil rights is nothing more than a smokescreen to create emotional leverage to con supposed “gibs” out of white people? Something that only makes sense to them because they personally are self-serving and have no scruples or principles they wouldn’t barter away paying lip service to values because they think it shields them and would gladly exploit anything given half the opportunity not for gain but for the principle of teaching a “lesson” to the “suckers” who aren’t looking out for number 1?
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