How privilege works, a graphic short story.
Tutors. Moral support. Maybe a trust fund to pay educational expenses. One kid graduates with no debt, able to start building their own nest egg. The other kid, not so much.
The first kid, like our incoming president, believes he did it all on his own. Which he didn't.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
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My parents called it "born with a silver spoon in you mouth".
ReplyDeleteMoney privilege. Most were assholes.
Eck!
CM: Perhaps off topic, but I want to say in this time of confusion and upheaval, I require routine and regularity to maintain my tenuous grasp on reality. Your forgetting to do a Jet/Prop noise post on Sunday hurt me. Please don't forget to post "The Shepherd" for Christmas.
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I apologize for that. I accidentally cued it up for next week.
DeleteThe Shepherd is already loaded for the evening of the 24th. Both versions.
Herd Invisibility: Individual Motivations, Aggregate Consequences
ReplyDeletePrivilege is unearned advantage derived from one’s group membership, and privilege based on race is embedded in the foundation of the United States (Haney-López, 1996; McIntosh, 1988). Early European settlers hewed the United States from the expropriated land of native peoples, robbed labor from enslaved Africans, and enacted myriad policies and practices designed to produce racialized benefits (Baptist, 2014; Katznelson, 2005). Descendants of these settlers and newer European immigrants continue to benefit from racist policies and practices, both past and present: Black/White disparities persist in the domains of health, housing, education, employment, finances, and criminal justice, to name a few (e.g., Alexander, 2012; Katznelson, 2005). Evidence that race-based privilege persists to the present day comes close to irrefutable.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721417753600
Since the beginning of our nation; All white men are created equal. Most were contemtable. Other genders and races are there to serve them.
I did not think I would see a repeat of American citizen internment camps, but here we are.