The thought process in our immigrant family which consisted of eight children and a mother who lost her husband when I was six months old to pneumonia was:

That nothing good came easy.   Anything worth your thoughts and worthwhile that you wanted to achieve in life would take hard work; and, if you were willing to put the effort into it – the sky was the limit – you could do anything.  In most cases there were obstacles or detours – but in the end – IT WAS ALL UP TO YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL.

CAN YOU IMAGINE – Those who came before us?

My Czech Republic Grand Parents arrived in this country as  immigrants where land was offered to them for cultivation.  Thereafter,  my Parents were born in America.

Stories passed on by my Grand Parents were that they were so excited to have left a socialist nation with no idea what was in store for them in America.  The found out quickly how hard life was going to be.  They  worked their fingers to the bone on land that produced their food and built their  communities from scratch – church, school, stores, and eventually health facilities with a doctor.  It wasn’t easy – but immigrants were use to “hard work” – that is to toil from sun-up to sun-down – day after day after committing to win in this “new country.”  Some were more successful than others.

The prior generation’s thoughts were always “to make it easier for the next generation,” regardless of ethnicity  by working and saving.  With all of this work behind them –  since 1874 in my case, the white people are now being accused of “white privilege.”

And what is the reason these racists words are being used – “WHITE PRIVILEGE?”

The generations of today should be following that same tradition “TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE NEXT GENERATION REGARDLESS OF ETHNICITY BY WORKING AND SAVING.”

We all should stop and take stock of what our country went through to get us where we are today.  The problem is – because our young people, due to politicians, do not know the history of the U.S. and the hard work and dedication to our Constitution and its laws, is what makes our country tick.  We have a lot of lazy people who were not born or properly educated and were assimilated to see America as “free everything” and are bringing their foreign-thinking with them – called corruption.

The reason people see “white privilege” is that the bulk of the people who “raised this country” into its being were whites – and that is because the rest of the country who came in later and do not know the history of the country – do not want to start at the bottom of the ladder.  Why is there white privilege – because of the thinking of our fore fathers “to make it easier for the next generation regardless of ethnicity by working and saving.”

That is where we are today with “the white privilege” gamut that other ethnicities are trying to pull on white people.  They want to replace that base by cutting in line with this notion, “your generations worked for it and we want it without my ethnicity working for it.”

Nothing in life is free – you enter this life with nothing and leave with nothing – because you don’t take what you earned with you.

What you earned is taxed by the government every day for others to enjoy  and in the end is taxed, again, and – the family is left with the difference.  End of story.

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Where and when did white privilege originate?

Patrick Sachs

So many answers, so many different definitions of “white privilege”, and none of them correctly answer the OP question.

The term “white privilege” was coined by Peggy Mcintosh, (who is White, by the way) a feminist activist and associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. She first used the term in a 1988 opinion piece that sought to explore and conceptualize how society is systematically dominated by what she perceived as a white, male power structure. So the opinion piece was as much a way to explore gender issues from a feminist perspective as well as race. In fact, in her work, she extrapolates the notion of white privilege from male privilege.

Notice the word OPINION in the word opinion piece. In her work, she doesn´t offer any empirical definition of white privilege but rather proposes how certain beliefs and perceptions she ascribes to Whites themselves create the notion of privilege at the expense of nonwhites.

In her writings, Ms. Mcintosh uses an analogy called The Invisible Knapsack to illustrate her perception of what white privilege is:

“In developing this conception, McIntosh described white privilege as “an invisible weightless knapsack of assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks” Observing that her male colleagues did not recognize their supposed privilege as men, McIntosh resolved to consciously try to uncover the contents of her own “invisible knapsack”, her own unacknowledged privileges as a white person.

(The men were protectors and fought and died in the wars to keep the rest of us safe and free.)

In her essay, McIntosh lists fifty of these tacit advantages, drawing from everyday experiences, such as “I can go shopping most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed”.This advantage was not earned by McIntosh, is not present for non-white minorities, and would go unrecognized by McIntosh if she had not engaged in her introspective endeavor. After this analysis of white privilege, McIntosh goes on to note that such examples of unacknowledged, unearned privilege can be observed in “advantage systems” in society, including heterosexual privilege, age advantage, and ethnic advantage. “ (source: Wikipedia)

So basically, Ms. Mcintosh infers white privilege from a series of perceived advantages based on what she assumes are the inherent belief structures of an entire class of people. Said advantages are enjoyed by these people by virtue of their whiteness.

I believe that Ms. Mcintosh´s work is an interesting piece that can serve as food for thought when we examine our own belief structures, much the way philosophy does. Ms. Mcintosh, however, doesn´t offer her work as hard proof of anything. She is merely offering an interesting and well-thought out perpective that she submits as something to consider.

As of late, the term white privilege has come into vogue, mainly with the pseudo-intellectual class as a solid and defined concept that has no solid definition. The concept is therefore reduced to the old phrase “I can´t define it, but I know what it is when I see it.” This hardly bodes well for reasoned and honest discussion.

The term is also exploited to challenge the role that hard work and personal mediocrity play, and, to a large extent, explain away personal responsibility in exchange for the idea that it is rather some racial caste system that determines outcomes.

I believe that the purveyors of this school of thought (mainly white liberal) play on the very real sense of unfairness and injustice that some minorities feel (mainly Black Americans) for cheap political gain. This is evidenced in the intellectually dishonest arguments that seem to belie an interest in promoting their version of what white privilege is.

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My family left their country due to socialism.  Now the left are using a fake drama to politicize everything in their quest to seize power and keep power and try to turn this country into something our fore fathers hated – and why they left that country – because socialism was filled with hate and evil.

None of us are perfect and neither is our country.  All of us have flaws.  You don’t give up something that is good for something that is evil because a group of people sees America through the lens of oppression and bigotry.  We cannot bow down to their bigotry.

We stand up to the fiercest enemy but won’t stand to the left’s bigotry.  Just because they play to be offended in their role – DOESN’T MAKE THEM RIGHT.

THEIR FEELINGS DO NOT TRUMP OUR RIGHTS.  It high time we remind them their feelings do not get to dictate what is and isn’t American.

But – A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom – can never be restored.  Liberty once lost is lost forever.

When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them – they can never regain it.  John Adams.

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President Trump is trying to right the ship of Obama which has caused all of this dissension.

Quote of the Century – By Vaclav Klaus –  former Premier of the Czech Republic.

These same ship of fools committed crimes, under Obama, and tried to take over the country.  This is where we are today, waiting for justice; and, now,  with the same Democrat fools who are trying  to make America a socialist country.

We must fight this in order to save our country.

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