White Privilege
The first time I ever heard the phrase “White Privilege”, I was listening to a young, wealthy, Negress from an Ivy League school accusing a someone not as wealthy, not from an elite school, and Jewess of having it.
As an attorney, the only race-based privileges of which I am aware in any common law ruling, Constitutional provision, law, statute, or administrative ruling, involve affirmative action, which openly and purposefully grants certain minorities legal privileges northern European Caucasians do not enjoy.
However, the asseveration of “White Privilege” is that the majority in this nation, because we are in the majority, see those of our race more often depicted in movies, &c. I am not sure how this alleged privilege, which is neither a legal privilege nor a deliberate policy enacted by any given individual, but seems instead to be an inevitable by-product of the nonuniform distribution of all races and both sexes across the globe of the Earth, actually affords me any benefit whatsoever.
On the other hand, can anyone familiar with the theory that is the central contention agitating the public discourse and fueling the opening stages of a revolt or civil war, please explain why the following individuals attempted to forswear the alleged benefits of their white privilege by adopting the identity of a minority race:
- Elizabeth Warren
According to Warren and her brothers, older family members told them during their childhood that they had Red Indian ancestry. In 2012, she said that “being Native American [sic] has been part of my story, I guess, since the day I was born”. In 1984, Warren contributed recipes to “Powwow Chow” a American Indian cookbook and identified herself as Cherokee. The Washington Post reported that in 1986, Warren identified her race as “American Indian” on a State Bar of Texas write-in form. From 1995 to 2004, her employer, Harvard Law School, listed her as an American Indian in its federal affirmative action forms. - Rachel Dolezal
aka Nkechi Amare Diallo. Hate-crime fraud perpetrator, civil rights activist and “Africana studies” instructor. She was president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, Washington, from 2014 until June 15, 2015, when she resigned after it was revealed that she had lied about being African American. - Jessica Krug
aka Jess La Bombalera. An associate professor of history at George Washington University (since resigned). Krug lived for years under an assumed race and ethnicity, namely that of a Afro-Puerto Rican, and confessed the falsehood when discovered. She is a Jewess from suburban Kansas City. - Satchuel Cole
aka Satch Paige. Born Jennifer Lynn Benton. A community organizer for Black Lives Matter, also involved in activists group Showing Up for Racial Justice. Served as Vice President for the advocacy group Don’t Sleep. Apologized when it was discovered she was not Black. A white woman. - Civi Vitolo-Haddad
A University of Wisconsin-Madison grad student a PhD candidate in journalism. California State University rescinded a job offer to her when it was revealed she comes from a wealthy Italian family in Florida. - Shaun King
A far-left race agitator and co-founder of Real Justice PAC. King is known for his use of social media to promote left-wing political causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement.King’s birth certificate lists Naomi Fleming and Jeffrey Wayne King, both of whom are white, as King’s parents and that a police report cited King’s race as “white.” King alleged that the man listed on his birth certificate is his adoptive father and that his mother has told him his biological father supposedly was a “light-skinned black man.”
The question arises, if all these folk could have easily availed themselves of the White Privilege of passing for White, and receiving all the alleged benefits appertaining thereto, why risk the fraud and public humiliation of being accused of race-swapping?
The benefit of the privilege seems to be nominal, at best.
I am not aware, in history, of any member of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party who impersonated a Jew and falsely claimed to be a member of that accomplished people, in order to avoid the legal privileges accorded to Aryans under Nazi law.
Perhaps one can measure the difference between the degree of oppression any given racial privilege affords one by numbering the percentage of persons who eschew the benefits and join the oppressed class or race.
Another question, more to the point, is why anyone apologizes for pretending to be a member of another race, when pretending to be a member of the opposite sex, as of last Supreme Court ruling, is a matter of protected civil and constitutional right?
The differences between sex are obvious and biological, whereas the distinctions between race, particularly with haflbreeed, quadroons and octoroons, are a matter of doubt and debate.
So, if Right and Left agree that men should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, and if, as we all agree, there is no moral difference between the races, and therefore should be no legal difference, why is there an alleged racial privilege attached to being Anglosaxon in America, and, to judge by the behavior of at least this sample, a real racial privilege attached to not being Anglosaxon in America?
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
