I have so many thoughts on this, but I’m not ready yet to comment much. I really appreciate the earnestness and effort to sort this all out.
Just a quick note: I grew up in the lower end of the working class as a white male with almost no chance to attend college. I was mentored by a man of color with two masters degrees. I felt very far from upper middle class and rich white people.
I mentioned earlier that two weeks ago I went to an anti-racism training and my white privilege went unchecked for awhile. But ultimately I was able to (mostly) check it and I had a great experience that I am still processing and pondering and trying really, really hard to stay in this place of processing and ambiguity. Because I think an important truth is that learning is a process, not an end game. Wow that sounded cliche. But that’s how it’s felt for me and it’s felt great.
Since the training, I’ve been thinking a lot about how complex oppression is and how contextual and multifaceted oppression and privilege are. I’ve been doing some good old internet searches and the closest thing I’ve found to describe this complexity is kyriarchy. But even that doesn’t quite cut it for me. Not right now. Maybe I’ll feel differently in a…
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I felt the same to what you mention above too. The greatness of your honesty make everything goes on.
I agree with what Izzy says that being born a white man means I faced far less discrimination than if I was born a black man. Unfortunately, our society still has immense problems in the sense of racism.
There are so many anti-racism campaigns but not as many “let’s help black people get an education and eradicate poverty where they live” campaigns. If companies and people with money would start more programs that would try to deal with one city at a time, and then a region at a time, racism and poverty would start to fade away. I strongly feel that poverty leads to crimes which lead to hate towards black people hence racism.
I think we shouldn’t use racism as a way to start a war against people that practice it. We should find ways to make sure this phenomenon disappears, one city at a time.