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kleinbl00  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America's struggle

Again - it's not that you haven't experienced hardship. It's that based on your skin color, you are much less likely to continue to experience hardship.

I dated a Serbian. One of my best friends is Croatian. We hang out with Albanians. From a mile high, all anybody can really tell about any of them is they've got bushier eyebrows and eat more lamb. You need to be in the know to get the nuance of that particular ethnographic clusterfuck. On the other hand, a black kid can experience prejudice from across the street simply for being a black kid.

No one is saying white people don't experience hardship. What's being said is that white people don't experience hardship driven by their whiteness. It's not an easy discussion to have, but it's worth having. And those of us benefitting owe it to those of us suffering to have it on their terms.