white privilege
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#OscarsSoWhite That Even Their Feminism Is Translucent
So, the Oscars were a thing that happened yesterday. I’ll be honest, I turned it off about 30 minutes after the red carpet fashion show – Neil Patrick Harris joked about how white the audience was and everyone laughed at acknowledging their privilege in a way that was too “yes I’m an asshole but at…
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All You Need To Know About Race In America Happened To Me In 90 Seconds Today
It was 10:00am. The Wife Person surprised me with tickets to the Cavs/Heat game yesterday, so we made the two hour drive to Cleveland, stayed overnight, and drove back early this morning. I took her directly to work, and drove back home. “Home” for us is an old high school building that had been closed…
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On #BlackBrunch And Bottomless White Tears
Earlier this week, NYC protesters supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement decided to take it up a notch and encroach upon “White spaces” in order to express their outrage over police brutality against Black folks. I thought it was a splendid idea. More often than not, creating awareness about an issue to facilitate change means making folks…
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Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly Argue About White Privilege, And Kelly…Surprises
Ladies and gentlemen, hell has frozen over. Heathens ’bout to let it go and build snowmen up in this piece. Bill O’Reilly recently invited Megyn Kelly on his show, The O’Reilly Factor, to discuss what he calls, “the White Privilege Theory.” For those of you who don’t remember her name, Megyn was the biggest advocate for Santa Clause’s Whiteness,…
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That Time Dr. Beverly Tatum Shared A Perfect Example Of White Privilege
It’s not every day you’re able to find a concrete and distilled “intellectual” example of White privilege (WP). Other examples are easier to find, but this particular brand of WP is as elusive as a fart in a cyclone. You don’t know exactly where it came from. But you can smell it. That said, I…