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Originally Posted by barbara
I understand how you feel to be at odds with folks you have had kinship with. I feel that too.
I agree with your statement that there is white privilege and I agree that not all white men are recipients of it. If that was what you felt I was saying or implying... I'm sorry. I should have been more clear.
I'm not trying to place blame on white males. I think white privilege is cultural.... Woven into our society for many many years. White females share that privilege in some ways, too.
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Thank you for that. I once had a co-worker, a lovely large black woman. We got along famously. She knew my wife and kids, we'd hit a bar sometimes after work. She moved to Chicago and we kept in touch for awhile. Then she learned to hate me because I was a white man, she said I was the recipient of white privilege and was evil because of it and refused to return my message. I did nothing to earn it.
It cut like a knife.