My name is Wayne Allyn Root. I'm an SOB (son of a butcher). I understand this "white privilege" controversy like no one person on Earth.
I've never had it. I've never even had a whiff of it. That's why I have no "white guilt." I have nothing to be guilty about. But I have met plenty of privileged white kids. You know what you call them? Liberal Democrats. More on that in a minute.
First, my background. My Jewish ancestors were far more likely to be slaves than to have one. My ancestors were persecuted, abused, robbed, enslaved and murdered by government -- just like Black Americans.
My Jewish grandparents got to America in the early 1900s -- long after slavery. They settled in New York City, not the South. If they ever met anyone from the Ku Klux Klan, it was only because they were being persecuted by white extremists -- just like Black Americans.
My father fought in World War II and faced sure death at Okinawa. Was that "white privilege"? He spent the rest of his life as a blue-collar butcher. He woke at 3 a.m. every day to drive to the meat market in the dark and freezing cold and buy the wholesale meat he'd sell at his shop. My father struggled his entire life as a working-class man and died with an estate of nothing (other than his home).
He worried every hour of every day how he'd pay his bills. No one gave him anything in his life -- let alone because he was white.
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Excellent article. Thank you, Joe, for posting it. Brings back memories of my upbringing, which was similar. I also have nothing to apologize for.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone where you work brings up Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility' or makes you read it- quit your job. That book is Satanic. She says that all white people are irredeemably racist, there is nothing you can to do to fix it except do what she (Robin DiAngelo) tells you to do.
ReplyDeleteI mean it. Quit your job- if the other people at you place of work go along with the program, get as far away from them as quickly as possible.
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ReplyDeleteTotally agree. I've never caught a whiff of it either and I'm not apologizing for something I've never had. Also went to predominately black school and was assaulted regularly.
ReplyDeleteI approve and ditto his life's experience. However, he has failed to mention that middle class workers support Blacks. Discrimination has been reversed. Whites are now oppressed due to this support. I feel Blacks have no right to complain due to the fact that Whites have bent over backwards for their race and yet it doesn't seem to be enough. The latest destruction has nothing to do with Blacks yet they feel the need to demand more.
ReplyDeleteMOST Whites have NO damn Privilage !!! That is Only the Rich at the
ReplyDeletetop of the food chain , along with Black Privilaged ones like Oprah !!!
Democrat Privilaged Ones like Pelosi , Schumer, Schiff , Nadler !!!!!
Most Whites are Poor & work their Asses off for a living & fight the wars !
So, don't dare put that SHHHHT on the Whites in America !!!!!
Can't you all see that Obama and Soros are the two main forces behind all this racial strife. It's always been their intent. The only answer is to vote Republican all the way.
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