WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a recently published article about racial unrest at the University of Missouri, the Rev. Harry R. Jackson Jr., gave an honest assessment of the concept of “white privilege.”
Jackson, a black man who serves as senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Washington, D.C., believes that “white privilege” exists. But he also believes that many black people, and well-meaning white people, are wasting their time focusing on the topic.
“The people – white and black – who are shining the light on white privilege must understand that focusing on it will, in and of itself, bring no measureable improvement to the lives of black people or other minorities, “ Jackson wrote.
“Our real focus should be upon how people of every race can set and achieve their personal goals. My grandfather grew up in a level of material poverty that is virtually unknown in our country today.
“Early on he did not have indoor plumbing and only a grade-school education. He did not rise above this situation and make a better life for our entire family by bemoaning the advantages that white people had. He focused wholeheartedly on what he could control, not on how other people thought about him.”
Hard work and social stability are the only reliable tickets to social advancement, for blacks or other minorities, he wrote.
“If blacks and Latinos wish for more than superficial gestures and condescending lip service, they must understand that blaming white privilege is toxic to actual advancement.
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7 comments:
None of this means anything because the truth is if it keeps up then white men 35 to 60 will give up and sit at home or start selling drugs. Society will not let that happen because this group has to pull the wagon. Facts are facts.
Until black MEN start accepting responsibility for the children they help create nothing will change in the black community.
Ban all guns and give them free money. This apparently will fix everything.
8:27 The women are the ones that need to start using birth control. We as a society also have to stop funding irresponsible choices. Stop the funding and the problem will take care of itself.
Most white men have too much pride, backbone and work ethic to just give up and sit at home. Such is the nature of "white privilege".
Men should also be equally responsible for birth control, but too many feel it isn't their responsibility, that it is the woman's body and she is its gatekeeper. Fair enough.
Birth control should be freely available, especially in poor communities where having another child is like throwing a boat anchor around a woman's neck. It will do nothing but drag her down, and she'll live a marginal and unproductive life.
This is why Planned Parenthood is so important, especially in poor communities.
This man should be applauded for looking at things from every individual's responsibility in life we were taught in school and church that it is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and I would add work hard and change your own circumstances not blaming everyone else that you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, who of us was?
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