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sp1814 | 14:38 Wed 09th May 2018 | News
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These people have been found guilty of using the service whilst being in the receipt of dark skin.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/airbnb-black-police-bob-marley-granddaughter-guests-neighbour-burglars-rialto-california-a8340911.html

Only kidding...I’m sure that the people who reported these black people would’ve done the same if they were white - but how many times has anyone reported a suspected burglary to the police and benefited from a helicopter being scrambled!

Awesome.

What’s the best way for black people to show they are not thieves whilst using Airbnb?
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Can anyone name a profession, no matter how elite, where a black person hasn’t made the top grade?

No, me neither.

This leads me to the conclusion that the White Privelidge argument can only be an excuse for an individual’s lack of achievement.
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Z-M

Prime Minister?
President of the US. Rightbackatcha.
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But to clarify, white privilege is the recognition that being white in a mostly white environment affords unspoken privilege that we all take for granted.

Back in 1989, Peggy MacIntosh (writing for the Seed Project) summed it up this:

I decided to try to work on myself at least by identifying some of the daily effects of white privilege in my life. I have chosen those conditions which I think in my case attach somewhat more to skin-color privilege than to class, religion, ethnic status, or geographic location, though of course all these other factors are intricately intertwined. As far as I can see, my African American co-workers, friends, and acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact in this particular time, place and line of work cannot count on most of these conditions.

1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.
4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.
6. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.
8. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.
9. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone who can cut my hair.
10. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.
11. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.
12. I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.
13. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.
14. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.
15. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.
16. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world’s majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.
17. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.
18. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge,” I will be facing a person of my race.
19. If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.
20. I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race.
21. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared.
22. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of race.
23. I can choose public accommodations without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
24. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me.
25. If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

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In America’s 200 odd year history - how many African American Presidents have there been?

It’s one, right?

Do you think this might be an example of white privilege?
Nope. If one can make it, many can. That’s the sort of perception which holds a race back. I mean, look at where Diane Abbot has got!

Maybe that’s a poor example. Or maybe not.
You are starting to resemble AOG as each week goes by, sp.

SP, your reply above on the Peggy MacIntosh is the best you have given so far and is a decent summation. Hopefully in the almost 30 years since then things have improved but there is still a way to go.

Perceptions are hard to shake off.
* the Peggy MacIntosh piece.
I also think a lot has changed in the 30 years since Ms Mackintosh’s ramblings, many of which were clearly out of date when they were written.
If you want all those things Peggy MacIntosh then you would be better living in a black majority country dear.
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//President of the US. Rightbackatcha.//

Obama is mixed race - neither black or white - that doesn't count
sp1814

/// Do you think this might be an example of white
privilege? ///

No living in a white majority country.

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-Talbot-
/// You are starting to resemble AOG as each week goes by,
sp. ///

Why the hostility towards me, when have I ever had a go at you?
Bazile, you’re splitting hairs now. Obama identifies as Black.
Spath, I was really talking this century. The Apollo missions happened at a culturally different time, half a century ago. Here’s a list that might interest you:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_astronauts
sp........of course there is "white prejudice" in the U.K and i would agree with mamyalane and Zacs it has improved.
It will slowly improve more in time, but this was always a "white country" so seeing black skins is disconcerting as white skins were in Africa for the Africans.
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