Guillory talks about not only "privilege" but other aspects as well.
We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. We have let a few black and white people who want to divide us -- who want to draw us apart -- we've let them place the burden of slavery on every white person from the North, the South, the East, the West, male or female, old or young -- people whose families have never owned slaves -- never had anything to do with slavery. We have placed that yoke of slavery -- that burden of slavery upon all of them. So much so that now just plain hardworking Americans feel a need to sometimes defend their whiteness.Finally, let me state the unequivocal truth: Caucasoids are equally or "more offended" than those whose melanin counts are diametrically opposed to theirs.
This is America -- free and filled with opportunity. That opportunity is available for each and every one of us.Try it -- American privilege!
Let that sink in for a microsecond or three.
BZ
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