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Originally posted by Lindz928
Ok, you are just ASSUMING that these are happening because you are white. And I see none of them as "cebebrating".
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I'm not celebrating it. Its just the way it is. Its celebrated by our culture on my behalf.
These things dont just happen to me random. They happen to me because I have 'value added' credability that people of color dont get. Its like an unstated 'credit' thats given to you because were white. Ive seen the gas station thing happen time and time again. I was on road trips in college and my friends of color would ask me to getout and pump, because they knew the shopkeeper would turn on the pump for me. And they always did. When my friends pumped, someone had to go in and pay first.
Its been shown in study after study that whites make more professionally than non-whites. I'll leave the reseacrch to someone else if they want to do the legwork.
One has to really step out of their box to get it, but its there all along. Most of us whites just take it for advantage, because its all weve known, but a double standard does exist. To think of believe otherwise is foolish, but easy to do in the lilly-white world in which we live.
Lindz, when you make a mistake at work or in school, have you ever thought, "god, I bet some fool here is gonna think all white people are like me'? Or wonder if someone is saying to themselves, 'dumb ass white people"? Do you live your life always having to be one step better than everyone elses expectations because you know you are always acting as an ambassador of white people everywhere? No? Because you dont have to.
ETA: Lindz, I dont want you to think I am saying that this is your fault, or that by participating in the system unknowingly is your fault either. This system was set up long before any of us were a glimmer in someones eyes. I am just saying that we can all be aware of the benefits our race affords us. That way when someone else gets the racial short end of the stick (someone of color being at the store and having to show three more forms of ID to write a check than a white person), we can call it out. Cause we should. Nothings gonna change till we do.