See that screen name?
See that screen name?
Wow!!! I’m completely blown away! I never thought about it before! Remembering all the individual police dramas. I’d never thought to even consider it before. That trying to remember all the times being repeatedly threatened by the police had gradually become akin to trying to remember all the times you saw people…
Four boys and one girl (middle child, I might add) in my family.
If you’re gonna go there, then the Hallmark Channel would be the top contender to be renamed the White-ish Network.
I think you just won the interwebs for August 16th!!!
Plus there’s the whole, “we been talking about this ish for four whole centuries, and you’re gonna try to convince me that you don’t know nuthin’ about it???”
Plus that whole 7 years “legally” limited indenture. Followed by full citizenship (with full civil rights) and land. Versus, the open-ended and multi-generational chattel slavery thing (for more than 10 generations, depending on how you measure it).
It is the exclusive privilege to not have to explain your right to simply exist throughout a majority of America.
Your basic understanding of privilege is flawed. The backwoods kid can get a shave, haircut and decent clothes and be fully “white” throughout most of America.
A quick trip home with black school friends for the weekend. A car breakdown 20 miles south of Atlanta. A moment caught in a speed trap virtually anywhere in Texas or Tennessee.
I think you may have to do like the NCAA and expand to 65. Because Matthew Heimbach (sp). From self-appointed and sworn, “interplanetary protector of the dignity and superiority of white people everywhere” — how superhero-ish does that sound? — to no character, redneck, trailer trash infamy overnight. Caught…