Maybe you never saw it where you came from, but you can see it in any nice neighborhood of any US city. People bought houses there for peanuts in the post war years, see the price increase by multiples, sent their kids to good colleges, invested in their businesses, and this has gone on for several generations, compounding that wealth and nurturing a good work ethic. Meanwhile, in most areas, people of colour were simply banned from buying houses in those areas, couldn't accumulate any significant wealth, lived in ghettos, compounded by generations again.malcontent wrote: ↑Sun, 30 Jan 2022 9:54 pm
I wish your husband could have grown up in my neck of the woods, where underprivileged whites were the norm, trailer trash, stoners, hillbillies, with a smattering of inbreds too. Heck, people of color were often better off and felt sorry for all the poor white who just can’t catch a break.
From my perspective, this idea of white privilege is just a liberal narrative that elite whites in their ivory towers came up with. I never saw it on the ground where I came from. I believe that is why there is so much division in America today, the elites are simply out of touch with reality.
There is privilege alright, but I believe it’s more about money than skin color.
That's just one example. Even if things have come a long way, it's fair from a level playing field. And there's no "invented liberal narrative", just a bunch of ignorant people on the defense who like to cherry pick examples to try and disprove the disgraceful history of race in the US.