Army Criticized for “White Privilege” EO Briefing
This is just another example of someone thinking the entire US is like the South:
Army officials are investigating a diversity training briefing at Fort Gordon, Ga., in which a slide about “white privilege” was inappropriately shown to soldiers, according to an Army spokeswoman.
The Equal Opportunity briefing took place Thursday for about 400 soldiers of the 67th Signal Battalion, Capt. Lindsay Roman, an Army spokeswoman, said Friday. The slide titled “The Luxury of Obliviousness” has bullet-point items about “white privilege.”
One item reads, “Race privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans or to how white privilege affects them. ‘To be white in America means not having to think about it.’ ” [USA Today]
You can read the rest at the link, but when I was growing up and since then living in various majority Hispanic communities I was very aware of being white.
GI Korea: “…the entire US is like the South?” That is about a racist statement if I have ever heard one. Exactly “How is the South?” Because we remain Patriotic, God-fearing, Respectful to Elders (who deserve it), Bearers of the Constitution, etc., we are somehow, in YOUR Racist mind against Southerners, inferior or whatever point you were trying to make with YOUR Racist lead-in. The rest of the U.S. would do well to emulate the finer qualities of the South. Where are the majority of modern day race problems occurring? Certainly NOT here in the South, as espoused by ignorant individuals, spewing false stereotypical images of legions of KKK Calvary brandishing Bull whips in one hand & twirling a hangman’s noose in the other (you would be hard-pressed to find more than a squad at any given meeting…check out their website). The states located in the Northern latitudes of OUR country are where rampant race infractions continuously occur, as this is where liberalism prospers…Sure, Southern states in this, OUR country, have had some serious problems…many years ago, & some vestiges of those bygone days still remain, but the problems of yesteryear are about as non-similar as they can get, almost to the point of the situation being in reverse in some of our more populous Southern Urban areas. The incident that occurred at Ft. Gordon is NOT a North vs. South problem, but an inherent problem inside of DOD, which has become wide-spread, not just amongst the uniformed military, but in the DOD Civilian ranks also. That is where your disparaging remarks need to be directed…
Depending on if white people are ignoring black people or paying attention to black people, they are privileged or racist.
Stupid white people. Is there anything they can do right?
…but, at least, if white people aren’t thinking of race, they aren’t being racist.
Certainly whatever the problem, it can be solved by white people and companies giving more money to black leadership.
I did not say anything about people from the South being non-patriotic, God fearing, or disrespectful to elders. The Southerners are all those thing you mention.
However the South has a long history of racial inequality. Many people living in the South were alive when institutionalized racial inequality still existed and these old biases on both sides persist. I still meet people from the South who think that ending slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War. Speaking of the KKK, in the South today it is still considered acceptable to name a prominent bridge after a Ku Klux Klan grand dragon. But you are right in regards to these racial issues being more widespread then just the South.
Slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, and all that were Democrat, not Republican things… Look it up…
4. They switched sides I think…
/NTTAWRT
Prove it. Show where any of those things are done by Republicans. Show us how Affirmative Action doesn’t tell everyone that Blacks and Hispanics are able to compete for college admission or employment on a level playing field. It’s still Democrats being racist pigs.
And you know it. Whether you’re gay or not, There’s a hell of a lot of space between being lynched for your suntan and having to visit a different bakery…
setnaffa: You seem like an old Nixon lover who can’t accept the fact that the U.S. has changed and not you. Face it you pig.
Even though there is a black man in the White House, Majority of Whites still feel don’t accept Obama as the POTUS. Obama got Americans out of the “Great Recession” but where is gratitude. Obama got Americans out of Iraq but where are the “thank you”s ?
The fact is the U.S. of Ass holes is racially polarized and racially casted society with fully apprarent and open White Privilege. All Minorities know it but Whites don’t because they live it.
Not every hard right religious zealot Tea Partyer is a racist white supremacist, that’s for sure.
However, ii sure seems like every racist white supremacist is a hard right religious zealot Tea Partyer.
Would anyone argue with that observation?
The democrat and republican parties have changed a great deal since the 1860’s. To deny that is folly. Hell, the republican party of the 1980’s barely resembles the republic party of today. Many on the hard right would label Saint Reagan a liberal or RINO were he running for office today.
“However, ii sure seems like every racist white supremacist is a hard right religious zealot Tea Partyer.”
…and the sister statement would be…
It sure seems like every racist black agitator is a hard left socialiist zealot Democrat.
The point being the Tea Party is filled primarily with average people, 25% not white, who have worked hard their whole lives with no expectation other than to be treated fairly and for the nation to deliver the security and lifestyle they were promised in exchange for playing by the rules and not constantly having their hands out.
The very small percentage of racist hard right religious zealots who gravitated to the Tea Party by default get all the press, as do the “mainstream” “Republicans” who have attempted to co-opt it, but they are hardly representative of the movement.
Consider that the Tea Party intentionally avoids divisive social issues and concentrates on goals that reduce intrusive government, encourage responsible spending and lower the debt, stop the bailouts to irresponsible big business, protect the borders, stop UN influence in American affairs, stop waging limited wars for undefined goals, and support the Constitution.
None of these are specifically the goals of racists, religious zealots, the hard right… or most Republicans, for that matter. Which ones do you disagree with which would cause you to associate the Tea Party in any way with them?
Leon, instead of blindly believing a media-encouraged version of what a bipartisan alliance of nervous fake Republicans and leftist Democrats would like you to believe about the Tea Party, look into the situation a little deeper.
You might find it better represents your values and interests better than the current versions of Republicans and Democrats.
“t sure seems like every racist black agitator is a hard left socialiist zealot Democrat.”
I can’t argue with that statement either.
I did not come by my opinion of the Tea Partiers from the media, rather from Tea Partiers themselves – people I know and any comment section on an article linked from Drudge. 😉
Isn’t it racist white supremacy to say that someone needs help or extra attention from society simply based on the color of their skin? Does that not imply that one race is inferior to the other?
Whose position is that?
“I did not come by my opinion of the Tea Partiers from the media, rather from Tea Partiers themselves – people I know and any comment section on an article linked from Drudge.”
Consider that, by its very nature, the majority of Tea Party members are older, educated conservatives who are not very vocal. In fact, sociologists who have studied the Tea Party find it to be an amazing example of unlikely social organization.
The vocal idiots who rant about idiotic stuff are not the majority of the Tea Party nor do they set its agenda.
Your ideas on the matter are somewhat like saying you don’t like women because too many Christians like women. You don’t eat carrots because Hitler ate carrots. You don’t like the Tea Party because a vocal minority claimes affiliation simply because both major parties have stopped representing the interests of the vast majority of Americans… turning their attention to Big Business, illegal aliens, the welfare state, and the hurt feelings of Muslims.
Again, I pointed out some of the goals of the Tea Party. Based on your past writing, they seem consistent with your interests and values.
Putting your prejudice of an imaginary Tea Party platform aside, kindly explain what goals of the Tea Party are inconsistant with your ideas.