AthenaAwakened
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When I was in high school there was a popular myth that black students got 200 points on the SAT simply for being black.
White students lamented the horrible unfairness of it. Giving such privilege to black students. It just wasn't fair. There ought to be a law.
From time to time you would even hear, "I wish I was black so I could get 200 points."
Now first, there were no 200 points. Second, even if there were 200 pts, you don't get to black just long enough to take the SAT. Once you become black, you have commit to it, FOR LIFE.
You have to black when you:
The list can be found here. Thank you Mother Jones.
When I read the attempts to paint a single incident as some universal example of privilege bestowed upon a political minority, I think of the white boys in the front hall of my high school and their lamentations over the 200 points.
When I see cisgendered heterosexual white anglo-saxon males with incomes of $250,000 a year (and all their wannabe kin) running out en masse to have sex changes and to have melanin injected into their skins and are moving in great migrations to trailer parks, I'll buy their claims of victimization from the privileges of groups not them.
Until then
Quicherwhinin'
White students lamented the horrible unfairness of it. Giving such privilege to black students. It just wasn't fair. There ought to be a law.
From time to time you would even hear, "I wish I was black so I could get 200 points."
Now first, there were no 200 points. Second, even if there were 200 pts, you don't get to black just long enough to take the SAT. Once you become black, you have commit to it, FOR LIFE.
You have to black when you:
1. Listen to loud music at a gas station.
2. Walk home from a snack run to 7-11.
3. Wear a hoodie.
4. Drive after swimming.
5. Drive in a car with a white girl.
6. Appear in public in New York City.
7. Walk on the wrong side of the street.
8. Wait for a school bus to take you to your high school basketball game.
9. Drink iced tea in a parking lot.
10. Seek help after a car accident.
11. Inspect your own property.
12. Show up at your job.
13. Talk trash after an NFL game.
14. Throw a temper tantrum in kindergarten.
15. Buy designer accessories at Barney’s.
16. Buy designer accessories at Macy’s.
17. Are a 13-year-old boy.
18. Enter your own home.
19. Botch a science experiment.
20. Are a tourist.
21. Lay face down in handcuffs.
2. Walk home from a snack run to 7-11.
3. Wear a hoodie.
4. Drive after swimming.
5. Drive in a car with a white girl.
6. Appear in public in New York City.
7. Walk on the wrong side of the street.
8. Wait for a school bus to take you to your high school basketball game.
9. Drink iced tea in a parking lot.
10. Seek help after a car accident.
11. Inspect your own property.
12. Show up at your job.
13. Talk trash after an NFL game.
14. Throw a temper tantrum in kindergarten.
15. Buy designer accessories at Barney’s.
16. Buy designer accessories at Macy’s.
17. Are a 13-year-old boy.
18. Enter your own home.
19. Botch a science experiment.
20. Are a tourist.
21. Lay face down in handcuffs.
The list can be found here. Thank you Mother Jones.
When I read the attempts to paint a single incident as some universal example of privilege bestowed upon a political minority, I think of the white boys in the front hall of my high school and their lamentations over the 200 points.
When I see cisgendered heterosexual white anglo-saxon males with incomes of $250,000 a year (and all their wannabe kin) running out en masse to have sex changes and to have melanin injected into their skins and are moving in great migrations to trailer parks, I'll buy their claims of victimization from the privileges of groups not them.
Until then
Quicherwhinin'