Wonderful story. But irrelevant to my post. I simply said this country was built on white privilege. Which is 100% true.
The majority built this country.
What you said is an opinion and what I said is a historical fact. It’s not “white privilege”, it’s a successful culture and any color of human being can play.
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I recall getting an essay back in high school with some very positive feedback from my teacher. One of them being I should take a look at developing my skills further because I showed talent.
These are the kinds of things kids need to hear when they show potential in a certain area, not that they are privileged.
Are you a writer?
In some aspects of my business, yes.
Is your business writing essays?
No, it isn’t. I chose a different path. However, it could very well be that kind of encouragement could form the seeds of a career path for children.
Using their white skin as a cost of entry to the ideals of what they “built”. Technically what they oversaw… black people did the manual labor. For free.
It’s not an opinion. White people built this country. I mean of course they did… they were the majority right. They used slave labor to do it and used their skin to determine who was a citizen and who was property.
Do you dispute any of that?
I agree with being generally encouraging, not crushing dreams. However it is not the purview of public education teachers to “form seeds”.
How many people have unrealistic expectations (and college debt) because of a lack of honesty about capabilities?
…and bingo…there it is. No my friend. Very few white people used slavery…period. There were by far more who didn’t, than did but that’s your pacifier in this life that you’ve been sucking on here in Hannity Land.
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The majority constructed the systems to support and maintain the country they built based on the majority’s ideals, sure.
Very true. I would hope that is where parents/mentors come in.
I do not want teachers forming seeds. Rather than privileged bingo which makes people feel bad about themselves, why not take a moment to say, “Student, you are very good at this” whether is be woodworking in a shop class or an affinity for chemistry.
Because it’s not true outside of that controlled environment.
The country and it legal citizens benefited from the institution of slavery. Where or not one owned one is irrelevant. You didn’t need to own a slave to have access to schools, paid labor etc. that slaves or even freedmen did not have.
Now you’re moving the goalposts. Slavery ended close to two centuries ago and any benefit has long since expired. It’s time for the black race to move on. The direction many have chosen is hurting themselves, their race, the country and their future.
What I said about getting married, then have children, love them and guide them into adulthood along the path of education is the right path. I also believe applying Biblical principles to this strengthens everything thing even more and results in personal success and internal happiness. I love my fellow man and wish him/her the very best life has to offer. I can’t make anyone live like this but I can model it, which with a great wife, is what I’ve been doing for almost four decades.
No what you posted is a glorification of the past. The fact that it began with factual description of how families worked 60-70 years ago doesn’t make it any less of a glorification. Romanticized nonsense.
Uh,huh…and yet the United States and it’s place in this world suggests you’re wrong and I’m right.
This is patently false. Slavery made the US an economic superpower.
