Dr. Sinclair Grey III – Can ‘White Male Privilege’ Ever Come To An End?

[MrScorpio]

These ‘so-called United States of America’ has always played favorites. Even though many have seen as well as witnessed some of the strides people from all walks of life have accomplished, there is without a doubt the notion that ‘white male privilege’ is still dominant. Let me say it this way. Whenever ‘white male privilege’ gets to flex its muscle, either financially, politically, and in the recent case of Brock Turner, judicially, people are reminded that we have a long way to go to see justice and equality.

The recent sentencing of Brock Turner to only six months in jail by Judge Michael Aaron Persky shows how corrupt our criminal justice system continues to be. Think about it for a moment. Black and Brown people are convicted and sentenced to longer sentences for much lesser crimes than the sentence Turner received after being convicted of rape. There is no justification towards the leniency Judge Persky handed down to this rapist. A letter from the father stating his son had no prior legal troubles contributed to the judge’s decision. In addition to that, it should be noted that Judge Persky was probably looking out for a fellow Stanford student. How deep is alumni loyalty to a fellow student who commits the crime of rape and gets off with a slap on the wrist?

America needs to wake up and address the disparity of handing down prison sentences. No one is so naive as to think there isn’t any difference in how Blacks, Whites, and Latinos are sentenced. Those who have the financial means are afforded the best attorney’s and resources while those who don’t have the financial means or should I say (the have not’s) are stuck with insufficient representation.

What’s so troubling in this ‘white male privilege’ case of Brock Turner is that the victim has to relive her nightmare. Often times, the ‘white male privilege’ syndrome doesn’t care who it/he hurts. It’s all about self-gratification. Let’s be real for a second. ‘White male privilege’ is alive and well. Because it’s alive and well, it will crush, degrade, and demean anyone and anything that gets in its way. As soon as those who are not privileged to that upper echelon come to grips with this idea, perhaps change will happen.

http://yourblackworld.net/2016/06/07/dr-sinclair-grey-iii-can-white-male-privilege-ever-come-to-an-end/

[Recursion]

1. Only when whiteness comes to an end

The problem is, when people read that sentence, rather than opening the Hegel and DuBois and learning what that would mean, they assume it's a call for genocide.

But it really will have to be that ontologically extreme: "whiteness" is a product -- the product, really -- of the American experiment.

[forjusticethunders]

3. Whiteness is a product of the American experiment insofar

that the American experiment is a capitalist experiment. Capitalism needed "black people" and "white people" because it needed a hyperexploited slave class, and skin color is an easy and convenient class marker.

It's a paradox. You have to overcome whiteness to overcome capitalism, but capitalism is what produced whiteness in the first place.

[YoungDemCA]

4. "Whiteness" doesn't exist without racism

It is fundamentally rooted in the exploitation and degradation of black people and other people of color. Race may be a dubious-at-best concept biologically, but that certainly doesn't mean that racism is not a pervasive pathology in our society.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. "It’s all about self-gratification."

Perhaps consciously. But IMHO, subconsciously it's about "self-preservation" and the fear of being a minority, as well as being the recipient of the the same types of oppression that have been visited on others.

[Number23]

6. Didn't you just love how the judge "explained" that lenient sentence because he "took the young man

at his word?" When the hell has ANY black person had our word taken for anything, especially in a court of law by a judge?

I was completely blown away. Cops sitting on a black man screaming "I can't breathe" until he is DEAD and they get off the hook. Two guys on bicycles come across this man jumping up on an unconscious woman behind a damn dumpster in the dead of night and the judge didn't want the sentence to be too harsh because it might "ruin" the precious young thing's life. I can't take it.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. White privilege documented

[Number23]

5. MrS, could you please add this to the "Graphic Examples" thread pinned to the top of this forum?

I referred to this bewildering case of white privilege about a week ago but it would be great to have this in the thread as well.

TIA!

[MrScorpio]

7. You bet, added! nt