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Wayne Doubletree Resident (138.26.199.131) on 7/8/2016 - 2:49 p.m. says: ( 285 views , 14 likes )

"Do not like that term . . . "

Edited by Author at 7/8/2016 - 2:50 p.m.
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Good for him. White privilege is a real thing. Black parents shouldn't have to teach

their young boys they just can't do certain things their white counterparts can.==============================

it suggest we white people are getting something above what should be expected . . . that we have to be pulled back down by the state to a level acceptable to all people.  The issue is not "white privilege".  The issue is state sponsored inequality as over reactions to societies ills (the drug war, the war on terror, etc. etc.) The "war" on these things have consequences and those most able to defend themselves from such consequences are deemed "privileged".  The other aspect of this is that the state has dropped the ball on doing the things it is constitutionally required to do (not the fluff like SS, welfare, etc.) . . . private prison are BS.  Alabama is funding its whole criminal justice system on fees.  Who is hit most by that?

This is systemic and political.  The answer is not demonizing white people as "privileged" but for the state to start behaving within its powers equally, lifting others up . .. not bringing us down.

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"The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to — for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well — is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."



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