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I responded to someone’s blog with a comment about “White Privilege”… would you believe the person responded back to me saying I was ignorant and that race doesn’t always have to do with the issues of society.

I am not big on judgement, but I do presume this person was a white male. Just the way he responded I could feel that his privilege has clouded his thoughts into believing that is something that does not exsist.

My belief is that race is inherently imbedded into every aspect of society. How could it not be…this country, from the moment Europeans set foot to land, persecuted those who were unlike them (Native Americans). Then it moved on to Slavery. Then the abollishment, that really was something that just happened and not necessarily what Lincoln set out to do. But even with Abollishment… we had Jim Crow and other segregation laws. Racism is something that is imbedded in the very nature of what it is to be America.

Now, just to clarify. I am happy to be American. I am thankful for the privilege that comes with being an American… and that American Privilege has sometimes clouded my ideas of other people…. but then I started traveling… and educating myself more… on things that maybe this country hasn’t shared so openly (and we know the gov’t hides things!) and sometimes… well sometimes I don’t like being an American… all the things that happened to get me here… I guess that’s really what I don’t like.

And now that I rambled a bit… I say all this, just say, check out the article on white privilege… It’s a real thing and white people write about it. 🙂

notjustmythoughts, keep reading friends and share your thoughts with me. I love to read your comments!