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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Memo to America: Defending White Privilege

Hi America! 

I'm a blogger and a black person. I have some concerns, to say the least, about your continuous defence of white privilege. A defence that translates into the blatant disregard for and refusal to acknowledge the fact that black people are human beings worthy of time, effort, justice, understanding, and other things of that nature. It bothers me - again, to say the least - that people who are considered "white" have the privilege of being above the law. I'm not even sure if that is the correct way to describe what black people are living. When a white man can shoot a 17-year old black boy in the chest because he found that he "looked suspicious" and there be no repercussions, do we call that being above the law? Or is that just evidence that the white man is the law, period? 

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