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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...

 Sometimes admitting to your situation is cathartic and insightful, other times it is this… Photo by   Gabe Pierce   on  Unsplash . Originally published on Medium . . You may think I have given up on White people by the content of this article’s title. Before I answer that question in my on way, I wanted to provide Whites the ability to redeem themselves. I cannot say this will be an easy task, but I am sure you will consider it with an open heart, fertile mind, and an accepting embrace of the truth of your sorry judgement, lack of positive engagement, and for your personal worsening of our skin color predicament. . First, I must say.   Wow, Whitey!   You are commended for taking all that on so willingly. It is   almost   like White antiracist hopefulness is ascendant… While fabricating this wholly inaccurate mirage is repulsive, it gives me the same ignorance of bliss feeling that our racist commissions and omissions have for hundreds of years. ...

Photo by   Gene Gallin   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . . Once we have our   successful   insurrection… Republicans will fully show how   little   we think blue lines, codes, or lives matter. . Nothing can be explained or solved by science… Until a Republican pollster analyzes it. . There is something contradictory in GOP water… Republicans say Biden and school teachers are   too cautious   about COVID, the same political party that says COVID is like the flu, masks do not work, herd immunity happens after everyone who is susceptible to COVID dies from it (actually that one is true, but f’ing ghoulish), that visiting in crowded bars is good for the   economy   of casket makers (again that one is true, but disturbing and ghastly),… Biden seeks tenuous balance on school reopening and variant threats - KVIA When officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that they were relaxing the… kv...