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Do Americans   disbelieve   in privilege for purely ideological reasons, or is it due to a basic misunderstanding? Photo by   Arseny Togulev   on  Unsplash . . Originally Published on Medium . . Privilege seems to be most fiercely denied, or downplayed when it comes to skin-color, and somewhat less so, gender. Yet, Americans, who seem to discount the prevalence of privilege in every way, surely cannot believe there is no such thing as privilege, except conceding that a person with considerably more wealth than another person is privileged. To that end,   what other areas of life do we see privilege playing out on a daily basis? . Most of these other categories of privilege are not politically or ideologically challenged. Particularly, if I mentioned these categories in a one-on-one conversation, without mentioning skin color or gender privilege. While you, and I are not in a face-to-face venue now, I hope to provide some context about how privilege seeps in...

Howard Zinn,   The 5 Immortals , & the   6th   Player , Offer Insight into Our Ideals. Photo by   Matthias Cooper   on   Unsplash . Essay Originally Published on Medium . I have been looking into the background of historian and political scientist,   Howard Zinn , learning that many say he was not always historically   honest , or thorough in his citations and sources. That his interpretations were   slanted towards socialism , and consistently shaming the United States for its faults and failures. In one instance he supposedly explains how   during WWII many Black Americans were against going to war , using only a few secondary sources like personal letters, and such, as evidence. From my non-exhaustive Google searches, I can find no references to that claim of an anti-war sentiment by a large portion of Black Americans. However, at the same time there is a historical tangent in a   somewhat   similar direction, about our ...

Photo by   Rinson Chory   on  Unsplash . . Being a white male myself, I have the ability to speak for all white men, now, and those from whenever. Thank you white men for that honor. It is a similar honor you have bestowed many millions of times on the only person of color in a classroom with 29 white classmates, i.e. to speak for everyone of their color. With these reins bestowed on me to stow away the pale ancients, I have the power of a billion white sons, all the way to great, great, great, and a thousand more generations of white great grandsons. I would ask you to kneel, but I do not want to overstep my massive authority. . Some may consider my idea as that of burning books; I would rather have it compared to burning heretics at the stake. If you white men think about it for a second   ( which you likely haven’t), white men have been doing all kinds of terrible things for millennia. That makes what I am proposing a performance of justice. Justice delayed as lon...