Monday, August 10, 2009

More Irony

Read at Alternet:

[Obama] and his socilist party are ruining this country ... I know that if I was a black man right now, I would be able to get help from the government with my construction business and household bills.


Lets think about this claim for a minute. This particular non-black person (I'll assume to be a white male) thinks that because there is a black president, that black folk are systematically getting black privileges.

Think on that. When people like myself bring up issues of white power structures run by white people for the benefit of white people first and foremost, people say "You're being anti-white."

To even suggest that there is white privilege will lead many a white person to talk about how they worked hard and whatever. But now with a black president white folks are imagining a so called black supremacy system that works to benefit black people first and foremost. Is this not a clear example of projection? Aren't these people stating what they know at least on an unconscious level to be true; that white people give special favors and breaks to other whites simply because they are white?