If only those blacks weren't so uppity! Am I hearing you correctly?

This whole issue is incredibly complex. There is no one root cause that if solved would correct the discrimination experienced by minorities. Until Americans can get past the issue that minorities, and particularly blacks, are sub-human, we'll never make sufficient progress towards "all men (and women) are created equal."

To close, I ran across an op-ed penned a few days ago by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the LA Times. It scratches the surface but provides a perspective worth considering.

George Floyd protests: People are pushed to the edge - Los Angeles Times

Yes Steve, it is. You saw what you wanted to see. You saw Christian references and it caused you to feel supportive. You forgot that the OP posted this specifically in reference to white privilege and current news events. As yourself how you react when a young black man is behind you at night. Do you notice his skin color or simply that he is young and male?

My son in law’s family came from Barbados. He was born in Boston. His Johns Hopkins Masters degree is in Electrical Engineering. He is a triathlete. His first run from our home during Christmas resulted in the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office being called because a young black man was in the neighborhood.

You and I are privileged. He is not. None of us had anything to do with this.

The next generation ... will NOT be "born white and priviledged."
Many/most government jobs going to minorities
Social security going to minorities and lots of whites being turned down. (yes, its true)
Scholorships available for minorities and less for white kids
Minorities are banding together against whites.
Ok for a black to be a racist - not ok for a white.
If you think your grandkids are going to have it EZ - U R asleep in the real world.

YEP...you nailed it. :thumbup:

You've nailed the root of the problem. :thumbup:

The white male reference tainted the rest of what could have been an uplifting message.

My thoughts on your post:

1. Social Security goes to people who pay into it. There are more white people employed in this country than there are black people. Unemployment is higher in blacks than in whites. People who don't pay into social security don't ever get social security checks. And people who have a lower income, will see a smaller social security check, than people with higher incomes. That's how social security works.

2. Maybe if you learned to spell, and learned to use actual words instead of chatroom shortcuts in an internet forum, you would've gotten a scholarship too.

Exactly that. And the scary part is that there are a few people in this community who don't think it's a problem. Those are the people who need to learn facts more than anyone else, but they refuse to because it doesn't fit their narrative of "everything is fine, those people just don't work hard enough."

The demise of the black family unit is a major cause of our current social problems. Children need fathers as well as mothers. IMHO our welfare system is a major cause of today's problems. 80% of the men in prison, black or white, were raised in fatherless homes.

Excellently stated! :thumbup:

And yet, we keep hearing from the usual suspects that it really doesn't make a difference...having black skin.

Funny (funny sad) thing is though, you don't hear a single one of those same people...saying that they wish they had been born black.

Why is that? :ohdear:

All about choices and decisions And yes we can and do make them. White privilege? What. A. Joke.

....seems like SO many decades ago. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
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This makes me sick . I was a policeman in a large city and never harassed any person black or white . It was always about who are the ones who commit the crimes . More often than not it was blacks who did it and often against whites . But you would never hear about that . Oh no !

If there is white privilege, then why does virtually every person with a smidgen of minority blood or affiliation identify as being minority or "of color," especially when applying for colleges, jobs, government programs, etc.?