I received this in my email today. I've pasted the message that accompanied it below. But I wonder how I get on some of the group emails I receive.
In a few days I'll write to
the person who sent it and ask that I not be mailed such garbage again. Especially
not with a prefatory note attached that said: "This is great! Please
share it with your friends!!!!!" So, I'm sharing it. Even though it
didn't say "Pretty please."
I
know I've enjoyed White Privilege since birth. I have never
been hassled walking toward my front doors in Maryland, Washington State or even
California, simply because of the color of my skin.
I have never been
pulled over by the police and questioned because of the color of my
skin.
I have never been stopped
and searched when I lived in Arkansas, just because I was eating an ice
cream cone outside a grocery store. But a lot of the Black adults and
adolescents I worked with were.
I have never had graffiti sprayed on my house, with messages that said
for me to go back where I came from, either. But the people who opened
the first Mexican restaurant in Colville, WA, were when they moved to
that little town.
After Pearl Harbor, nobody rounded up my family and sent them to Manzanar or another "relocation" camp.
I remember those who bought homes
on the G.I. Bill all those decades ago post-WW II, when new housing
communities built to accommodate those upwardly mobile families. And I remember those neighborhoods had
CC&Rs that prohibited selling them to Jews and people of color who were veterans.
None
of my ancestors were rounded up and sold as slaves. I've never been
discriminated against as have friends of mine in South Africa who were
not admitted to medical school because they had black skin.
White
privilege? Yep. My card has saved me from enduring many of the
indignities that others who hold these alleged valuable "Race Cards" face.
FOR SALE:
I'm
selling my white privilege card. It's over 70 years old but is in mint
condition. It has never been used, not even one time. Reason for
selling is that it hasn't done a damn thing for me! No free college, no
free food, no free housing, no free anything, I actually had to go to
work every day of my life while paying a boatload of taxes to carry
those who chose not to work! If
you are interested, I prefer cash but would be willing to do and even
trade for a Race Card which seems much more widely accepted and comes
with countless benefits if you fit the profile!
Contact me on my Non-Obama, Non-Biden cell phone that I pay for every month..Serious buyers only.