White Skin Privilege

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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
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I'm not knocking white skin priviledge, I think it definitely exists. I just think that some of the posters on this thread are acting like my family just showed up over here and said "Hi, we're white" and had fabulous jobs and gobs of money thrown at us. That didn't happen.

OMG Kath what are you talking about? Of course they just came over and said "Yello, I'ma from Italia but I'ma white so giveame a job". Then my dad proceeded to grow up very poor, and built his business from nothing. Don't you know that's how it goes? </sarcasm>

You wana know how people go from being nothing to being successful business men? They forget the past, but work harder for their future, and stop complaining about the way they are treated and disrespected. They prove to everyone that they can be something other than what others think them to be.

And that goes for white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Italian, Irish, Greeks.