Making an assumption here, but I can only imagine what you must think when you hear the phrase 'white privilege'.
@skeeter I literally laugh out loud,even though I have mixed blood. I am 1/4 Tuscarora Indian. Other than my black eyes,I easily pass for white,though. And no,there is ABSOLUTELY NO danger of my ever putting in for professional vic-tum Indian status,either. So people did bad stuff to your ancestors 200 years ago. BGD! Get over it,losers!
And there are and were many,MANY other white children who had it a hell of a lot worse than me. Especially the ones born a generation or more earlier.
In FACT,my mother and father had it a HELL of a lot worse. My father had 5 brothers and sisters younger than him,and he had to quit school in the 3rd grade after HIS father died and go to work as an apprentice at a local shipyard to help support his family and send his younger brothers and sisters to school. He basically went though life with a 2nd grade education.
My mother arguably had it worse. Both her parents died in the flue epidemic of 1918,leaving her and her 5 year old sister alone in the world. The local "shadow government" (The local KKK) stepped in and found a place for them to live with a crippled Civil War veteran. He only had one leg and was old and needed help,and those two little girls had no where to live and no money,so they needed help,too. The Klan figured they could help each other,so they sent the girls to live with him to cook,sew,clean house,and keep him company.
My mother told me it wasn't long before the old man started "being mean to them",so 1 Friday night they showed up out in the yard on horseback with torches,and called the old man out into the yard and read the law to him. She said the leader told him something like "We understand you have not been sending those girls to school,and that you haven't been buying groceries suitable for two small children,and that you have been spending your pension on whisky and gambling instead. That ends NOW! If we ever hear of this happening again we will come back and tie you to that tree in the yard and beat you half to death with horse whips.",and left.
My mother said the only man treated them just fine after that,but he died when she was 13,so she married a WW-1 Vet in his 30's in order to have a place for her and her sister to live. He got gassed during WW-1 and it turned him into a mean drunk,so she divorced him when she was older and able to be independent and took his daughter from a previous marriage with her. Actually went to court and got legal custody. I actually met and knew this man when I was a child. We would sometimes visit him.
Anyhow,she and my father got married sometime in the late 30's and remained married until she died in 1980.
And what today's PC history books are NOT telling people is lives like that were as common for white children prior to the 1950's as they were black children or any other children. Nobody GAVE them a damn thing but a hard time. What they got,they got by going out and working for it.
Nobody "GAVE" the white man a single damn thing but a attitude. He/we got to where he is by working hard and fighting for it.
