I remember being a white college student who was so thin that I couldn't sleep on my back or sit on hard surfaces without getting bruises, working in restaurants in the evenings... cooking food while I was so hungry that I was seeing purple splotches because I usually couldn't afford both food and rent...
...while my classes were full of obese African-Americans who were all given scholarships.
I was warned I'd lose my job at Taco Bell for showing up with a wet and damaged shirt because I scuffed my elbow when I fainted twice while walking to work, because I was so hungry.
I always laugh when they act like there are no poor white people. I grew up poor as shit in a new England fishing village. I remember the government cheese truck rolling into the neighborhood every month and we would line up for cheese, peanut butter and real butter. Sometimes there was milk. I had two school outfits I rotated and one pair of shoes. Once some one stole all our shoes off our porch so none of us had shoes for a bit. Thi g is our shoes were shitry and worn out and pass downs. My mom said, well I imagine how bad off the people must be to steal our shoes. I was always hungry and started working at 10 years old. Nobody gave any of us a TV show.
My wife was born to a mother of 16 years old and a father who was 17. She spent the first years of her life in a trailer park. Her parents are now out of that trailer park and fairly well to do. She is an operating room nurse, a mother herself and a contributing member of society. The key was the values they held even though they were poor, they didn’t want to stay that way. America gave them the opportunity to change that.
People who wear themselves out focusing on the past that can't be changed, or the physical body that can't be changed, don't have energy left to do that. They have created their unfixable axiom on which to build an empty life.
Family filed for bankruptcy literally couldn't buy food, started working around 16, had to make sure my brother
was taken care of, but I'm a privileged racist white boy, and for that I'm so sorry for being so privlaged
Fuck her and people like her. I lived through literal hunger and had to do hard manual labor on a farm just so we have some food in winter (this was outside of US). I ended up getting Masters in nuclear physics and legally immigrating to US based on merit. Did I miss some kind of memo that White people can call some global White Bank and cash in their white privilege for a million dollars or so? Because I had to do it all by myself without rich parents. Again, fuck her and other racists like her.
You are racist! Don't you realize that your white privilege has kept her down! She could be a trillionaire, if it wasn't for you and your white privilege!
Parents made me get a "real job" at 16 on a crew building corrugated steel grain bins on farms. Before that it was mowing lawns and shoveling snow for friends neighbors and relatives. Never have not had at least one job in 40 years and I've got 11 more years to go before I can relax. I still work 70 hour work weeks. I own shit. I paid off every penny of my own school loans by eating mac/cheese fot 10 years. I put away a lot of money. I give to church and Shriners hospitals regularly.
I volunteer for an organization helping paranoid schizophrenics. I enjoy firearms. No filthy rich billionaire race baiting commie is going to take it away from me. I've never missed a single election since I was 18 and I've never voted for a democrat in my life not even for dog catcher. My parents made me based at 16 and I never looked back.
I remember being a white college student who was so thin that I couldn't sleep on my back or sit on hard surfaces without getting bruises, working in restaurants in the evenings... cooking food while I was so hungry that I was seeing purple splotches because I usually couldn't afford both food and rent...
...while my classes were full of obese African-Americans who were all given scholarships.
I was warned I'd lose my job at Taco Bell for showing up with a wet and damaged shirt because I scuffed my elbow when I fainted twice while walking to work, because I was so hungry.
I was experiencing white privilege.
I can't keep count of the number of poor white people I've given money to, or food to, and I'm not white.
This idea that "whiteness" is some magic blanket that makes all problems go away is ridiculous.
Sometimes it makes things worse because people who could help, do not help, because you've got that magic blanket. So they think.
I don't care if this gets traction or not. I don't have enough words to describe the hatred and vitriol I have for this "movement".
The sooner it dies, the better.
I always laugh when they act like there are no poor white people. I grew up poor as shit in a new England fishing village. I remember the government cheese truck rolling into the neighborhood every month and we would line up for cheese, peanut butter and real butter. Sometimes there was milk. I had two school outfits I rotated and one pair of shoes. Once some one stole all our shoes off our porch so none of us had shoes for a bit. Thi g is our shoes were shitry and worn out and pass downs. My mom said, well I imagine how bad off the people must be to steal our shoes. I was always hungry and started working at 10 years old. Nobody gave any of us a TV show.
My wife was born to a mother of 16 years old and a father who was 17. She spent the first years of her life in a trailer park. Her parents are now out of that trailer park and fairly well to do. She is an operating room nurse, a mother herself and a contributing member of society. The key was the values they held even though they were poor, they didn’t want to stay that way. America gave them the opportunity to change that.
Thats just it. I didn't really k ow I was poor and alll of us worked our way out of it and some of us really made out well.
People who wear themselves out focusing on the past that can't be changed, or the physical body that can't be changed, don't have energy left to do that. They have created their unfixable axiom on which to build an empty life.
I thought the "POC" in the headline meant "Piece of Crap." Turns out I was right.
Family filed for bankruptcy literally couldn't buy food, started working around 16, had to make sure my brother was taken care of, but I'm a privileged racist white boy, and for that I'm so sorry for being so privlaged
Fuck her and people like her. I lived through literal hunger and had to do hard manual labor on a farm just so we have some food in winter (this was outside of US). I ended up getting Masters in nuclear physics and legally immigrating to US based on merit. Did I miss some kind of memo that White people can call some global White Bank and cash in their white privilege for a million dollars or so? Because I had to do it all by myself without rich parents. Again, fuck her and other racists like her.
Such pretentious bull shit.
You are racist! Don't you realize that your white privilege has kept her down! She could be a trillionaire, if it wasn't for you and your white privilege!
Oprah Winfrey was BFs with Harvey Weinstein.
You know what, you're right. Next time it comes up, I'll ask not be white.
To hell with that race hustler!
Oprah is ASSHOLE.
Parents made me get a "real job" at 16 on a crew building corrugated steel grain bins on farms. Before that it was mowing lawns and shoveling snow for friends neighbors and relatives. Never have not had at least one job in 40 years and I've got 11 more years to go before I can relax. I still work 70 hour work weeks. I own shit. I paid off every penny of my own school loans by eating mac/cheese fot 10 years. I put away a lot of money. I give to church and Shriners hospitals regularly. I volunteer for an organization helping paranoid schizophrenics. I enjoy firearms. No filthy rich billionaire race baiting commie is going to take it away from me. I've never missed a single election since I was 18 and I've never voted for a democrat in my life not even for dog catcher. My parents made me based at 16 and I never looked back.
Willow movie. "PEC". POC. Piece Of Crap. Pejorative? Sounds like "Gook"; terrible. Person Of Color; so woke.
It always amazes me how life imitates art...