'Exploring White Privilege' #SOC119

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[pf]

I'm clear about one thing, Dr. Sam Richards has unbelievable guts and courage to teach a course on race and culture in today's climate at any university. Unreal.

[quick]

This channel makes me realize every day just how little college students know. It’s a reminder that they are still kids. They are still professional regurgitators.

[nortoro]

Every single person in that room is privileged beyond belief. They are more privileged than most people throughout history.

[dougkozak]

It’s painful watching students unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans - anything except reason.

[regina]

His lectures show the importance of history in school and how the lack of information has a profound effect

[DoctorBella]

Protect this man. He is one of the last of his kind. He is getting everyone to think critically!! This is what college is supposed to be about.

[aceshigh]

My mom came here from a different country. My family literally arrived here with nothing and had to build their lives from the ground up. I’ve worked my ass off for everything I have and I’ll be damned if someone else is gonna attribute my success to the color of my skin. If you are a blue collar middle class construction worker you don’t have privilege you have your hard work.

[brittanycoughlin]

What the professor is doing is important. More often than not when we talk about complex social issues, such as white privileged, people try to oversimplify and talk in euphemisms and cliches. But they can't explain themselves as easily as they speak in euphemisms & cliches. You can't just make loaded generalizations & be surprised when someone asks you what you mean

[ridge]

I've watched 3 of these soc119 videos on YouTube and I plan to watch all of them. What a great professor. I love how he uses a boat load of logic 101.

[alicedavi]

Prof does an excellent job of demonstrating CLASS in America.

[stelladavis]

I's shocked this prof was not shouted down and fired. I didn't think you could teach the truth in American Universities

[aleigh]

"If you're thinking like other people are thinking, you're not thinking in a very smart way." Possibly the most polite, teacherly way of saying that, broadly speaking, our culture is completely off the rails when it comes to reason and logic.

[mathewm]

#1 tactic of a narcissist - when you fail, blame someone else.

[gdog]

What on God's green earth are kids getting taught in these colleges and universities.... all I hear is victimhood and division!!

[feeshunter]

What is BLACK Privilege?
1) Privilege is wearing $200-$700 sneakers when you’ve never had a job.
2) Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance.
3) Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan, which you receive no bill for.
4) Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don’t have a utility or phone bill and where rising property taxes, rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table, which is largely covered by Government Food Stamps.
5) Privilege is having free health insurance for you and your family that's paid for by working taxpayers who often can't afford proper health coverage for their own families.
6) Privilege is having multiple national organizations promoting and protecting just your race alone -- that are subsidized by federal tax dollars.
7) Privilege is having access to a national college fund that supports only one race.
8) Privilege is having a television network that supports only one race.
9) Privilege is having most of the media news networks refuse to cover incidents wherein one race (one-eighth of the population) commits 50% of the crimes.
10) Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, without worrying about calling off from work and the consequences that accompany such.
11) Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or pre-school you don’t pay for.
12) Privilege is being able to vote in many states without showing a driver's license, voter ID card or other credentials -- just because your race claims they should be exempt from such requirements.
13) Privilege is being able to riot, loot, commit arson and tear down historic monuments without consequences -- just because you don't like folks such as Columbus, U. S. Grant or even Lincoln.
14) Privilege is being able to get into almost any college of your choosing based on your race, not your grades or merit.
15) Privilege is having most of your life paid for by the working men and women who DO HAVE TO DEAL WITH RISING TAXES AND COSTS!
16) Privilege is getting a 25% boost to your welfare in Biden's term, yet those who worked their entire lives and on social security got 5.9% -- you know, those you now call “PRIVILEGED.”

[chasatch]

The concept of "white privilege" sounds like a discussion of a "caste system". Perhaps it would be useful to examine past and current caste systems based on criteria other than skin color, to determine how other societies, both past and present, dealt or deal with the issue.

[notherntranceaddict]

He's basically saying "don't just repeat what you heard, have a think about what it means". It's great to watch.

[caldaque]

From the few videos I have seen from this professor, I like how he pushes his students to think beyond the “socially acceptable” to what is real. Life is complicated and nuanced. There is no broad brush that can cover everything.

[natedogg]

I'm a white man who grew up in a financially challenged family... I know what it means to be poor, I lived 6 months with no electricity and spent 5 on the street getting treated like junkie because I had no money. If I have white privilege... Can someone teach me how it works please? Who thought about me while I was half starved and so sleep deprived I actually hallucinated?

[floydpattersonii]

Im a Black man and I believe if you re willing to work your ass off, you can have anything you want. Focus on where you want to go and how to get there vs wasting energy on who has more or less than you. You can have it all, if you re willing to pay the price