White Male Privilege: I've Had ENOUGH!

About "White Male" Privilege

Some people, especially the social justice warriors, like to talk a lot about white male privilege. And, recently, I seem to be receiving a lot of comments like this.

I get people saying that I only know what I know because I'm a white male and if I was, for example, a black woman, I wouldn't get the same opportunities that I get and I wouldn't be where I am now.

Well, I decided to record this video to explain what I think about all this talk about white male privilege and what I really believe that is going on behind all of this.

Wanna know what I think? Watch this video and find out!

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[ConquerJS]

Look I'm a black guy from Brooklyn, a high school dropout, victim of child abuse, ran away from home at 16, didn't go to college. Nevertheless I have travelled, been on TV, as a private event bartender I have been in the homes of movie stars and billionaires, been at Chelsea Clinton's wedding, taught English at major banks in Warsaw (Poland), and though I've gone hungry sometimes I now lead a comfortable life in New York.

I want to become a developer and got a job as a QA tester at a startup a year ago and now am a QA automation engineer and transitioning into a junior developer position within that company. Our clients are fortune 500 companies! I keep getting job opportunities that I have to pass because I'm not quite ready as a developer yet but will be by next year.

So it's hard for me to listen to all this white privilege nonsense because I should be the poster-child for inner-city black disadvantage, and I see how I could have easily fallen into some traps, but to be honest it wasn't that hard to stay "straight" the entire time, and to actually succeed. You just got to get out there. Don't expect to stay in the ghetto and become the next Oprah. I actually have regrets, I feel like there were so many more opportunities I didn't take up that would have gotten me further by now, but All in all I'm in pretty good shape.

Lastly, a lot of these kids running around screaming "white privilege" are Americans. As black as they keep trying to be they are still Americans enjoying a lot of 1st world privilege most of the world can't even begin to fathom.

[russiasvechenaya]

Sorry dude you’re making too much sense. Blocked.

[billsawyer]

Being called “white priviledged” without someone knowing anything about your life, is the worst thing !!

[faithtomorrow]

I'm with you on that term "cisgender". For the longest time I deliberately refused to learn the definition of it. Even after accidentally hearing what it means I still have managed to block it out of my brain! Along with all the other lousy terms people come up with that are utterly useless...

[johnculley]

My favorite white male privilege souvenir is my draft card and enlistment contract.

[MsLemons]

I grew up as an upper middle class white male and I'll be honest, it screwed my work ethic. Now 26, I am learning to bust my ass.

[giovannafrancesconi]

This is the best mindset to have. You are so smart omg. I’ve never thought of privilege like this but it makes so much sense. Who really decides what a privilege is? Who decides what are advantages and disadvantages in life. We really shouldn’t be comparing ourselves to everyone else. We really shouldn’t have a victim mentality. It helps no one.

[jaxregona]

"I'm gonna piss off a lot of people but I don't really care at this point"
I like your mindset bro

[nukeman]

In our IT department, everyone is making over or near 6 figures. Out of nearly 25 individuals, *2 are African American* including myself, there are *4 white males*, the rest are Eastern Indian. There's no *white privilege* there.

[StarRoseAngelic]

Hmm. I think the confusion comes in when people automatically equate privilege with how hard their lives are. You can have privilege and still have hardships. White male privilege takes a solid form in American society, because there's an assumption of competence that doesn't need to be proven in the same way it does with minorities. For ex., I took one of the hardest Economics courses at my top university. On our first exam, 3 people out of 82 received an A. This included myself and two white male students. I should note I was the only Black student in the class, and one of only 11 females. Immediately after receiving my score I was asked by the professor to have a session with him, in which I had to explain my reasoning for the majority of the questions (without looking at what I had written on my exam). There were 100 questions total. I asked the other two students if they were asked to do the same. They weren't. This sort of thing happened several times again in different courses. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why my aptitude was put into question while that of my peers weren't. White male privilege does not mean that I, as a Black female, can not overcome my own adversity to find success. It simply means that the standards that I'm held to will always be more stringent, and my competence scrutinized under a more dubious light.

[pretoshohmoofcguy]

Human being are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

Alekandr Solzhenitsyn

[jonasb]

The amount of world-class football (soccer) players who grew up poor or in poverty is astounding.

[Greedst]

What a brave man.... fighting the SJWs? why risk your life like this?.... you deserve a medal....

[ChucksNourish]

I am an Asian straight male and I don't see the advantages white men have nor do I see the disadvantages minorities have. If anything, minorities got it better. Anytime a minority bitches and wines and makes something about race, a white person has to appease them to look non-racist. And on the issue of discrimination, don't even try the whole "just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist" bullshit with me. Just because you experienced it doesn't mean it is rampant.

Ffs, this whole situation feels like the witch trials of old. People putting others to the torch who have nothing to do with the cause of their ailments. And we're supposed to be okay with this shit?

[orirune]

This is a point that I have thought for a long time. The focus that people put on your innate "privilege" is such a disempowering message to anyone who is listed as not privileged - for example, if I were a black woman or some other "underprivileged" group, and all I heard all day is how disadvantaged I am, then what motivation do I have to even try? Why would I put in mountains of hard work when everyone just tells me I'm going to fail anyway?

[anarki]

I've never lived in the US, but I can say this for certain in the UK. - white privilege does not exist.
White handicap is the reality due to quotas etc.
A greater number of whites are coming from wealthier backgrounds vs. other minorities such as blacks.
However, . then we are talking about class privilege, not white privilege.
If we are talking about class privilege then I agree it exists here.

[IHopegood]

I’m white, straight and a man. I also have heart problems, autism, ADHD, and a hard time keeping a job.

Sure I haven’t been affected by brutality, racially attacked, or have any reason to complain, but I do suffer from mental abuse. Childhood trauma. Lost friends over these subjects.

Is it fair to say that I don’t have privileges that grant me invincibility like feminists claim? I suffer too.

[davidsalleyezonme]

A non white man has to work 150% harder to have the same privilege

[illuminatiyearsago]

More relevant than ever. Takes balls to be real, when these segregationist ideologies about victims and oppressors are in fashion.

[pretoshohmoofcguy]

This is a really good post. It shows that we have persons within our society that can outsmart the others within their same groups or classes. Not everyone has the same mindset to run a successful business. Not everyone has the creative skills to be able to invent a new idea. Not everyone will be the same in their job skills. Some are simply better then others at certain tasks. If they don't have the freedom to Express themselves, then you are suppressing those who may do well. Equal opportunity does not always reflect equal outcome.