Comments on: Perils and Perks of Privilege https://sedonaeye.com/perils-and-perks-of-privilege/ Local News From All Points of View Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Glenn https://sedonaeye.com/perils-and-perks-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-97156 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:39:43 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=42305#comment-97156 Neal it is about race relations as the whites are always being blamed as the privileged race and being looked at like they are the cause of this problem. It overlooks the point that there are a lot of whites that face the same day to day problems others do day to day. In fact whites face bigger problems because there isn’t the help that is given to minorities that whites are able to use equality. Race is a problem because there are a few that continually want to stir the race relations topic.

]]> By: Neal Lester https://sedonaeye.com/perils-and-perks-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-97146 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:00:24 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=42305#comment-97146 As a co-facilitator of this 5th of 6 highly successful and diverse-audienced workshops across AZ, I so wish that those who commented above had actually attended the workshop to witness that this was not about “white guilt” –or any guilt for that matter– or even about race and economics narrowly. Your comments reveal precisely WHY this conversation is needed to assume personal responsibility without pointing fingers at others. Easy to make assumptions and jump to conclusions before actually investigating the topic, it seems, or “talking, listening, and potentially connecting.”

]]> By: Glenn https://sedonaeye.com/perils-and-perks-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-97075 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:11:44 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=42305#comment-97075 Gayle no the figures are correct for 2013, you are looking at 2011 figures. The 73% is from 2013 government figures.

]]> By: Gayle Davis https://sedonaeye.com/perils-and-perks-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-96923 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:24:42 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=42305#comment-96923 Your numbers are wrong.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-570.pdf

]]> By: Gregory Jackson https://sedonaeye.com/perils-and-perks-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-96921 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:51:02 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=42305#comment-96921 We were expected to act and do right and if we didn’t we paid consequences. We were expected to go to school and learn and if we ever thought about not doing it, our mother would’ve packed our bags and tossed them on the front step saying if you’re so smart, now go support yourself. If we did anything wrong, we had to own it and fix it. If we did something right, it was expected but our self esteem wasn’t anything my parents thought about, they had it, we should develop our own. Best parents in the world.

]]> By: Glenn https://sedonaeye.com/perils-and-perks-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-96821 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:53:05 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=42305#comment-96821 N U it will never happen as with 73% black single family households the family is already destroyed. Johnson’s great society made the black man unnecessary to support a family and so he was dumped as to be of no value. So you see it really is too late with this high of a percentage to really turn around. There is no race in the history of the U.S. that was singled out to get so much free including education and as you can see for the most part did nothing with it.

]]> By: N. U. https://sedonaeye.com/perils-and-perks-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-96775 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:07:44 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=42305#comment-96775 Professor, where would we be without white guilt? Nobody I know even had relatives who lived in America then. Doubt many in Arizona do. Take it from this black-ish post grad, make something of yourself folks and stop looking for excuses. You’re not disadvantaged by those with privilege and there’s no peril to making money. Try it and see.

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