Jesse Williams' BET Speech did you catch it?

It's what you imply by using the word privilage. Want me to pull out the dictionary??

 

What indicates that I don't?

 

What are you talking about? Funny how this bs thinking never comes up when we are talking white privilege but any critique of the difference between light and dark skin then it's a brain washing from master. This entire thing is a deep brain washing a complete social construct but we are talking about the differences with in that construct because they exist.

 

LOL so it's a privilege if the white man lets a light skinned dude live in his house. Forget the thought of him owning his own. lol

 

Oxford online Dictionary

Priviledge: A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people:
education is a right, not a privilege


http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/privilege

 

My rights are not a privilege.

 

Why do you ignore context. It is a privilege in comparison to someone who is forced to live outside.
In a capitalist system everything is a privilege even your education as long as there are owners of production, owners of access everything they allow is considered a privilege.
We aren't talking about universal right and wrong here. Should it be a human right to have access to clean drinking water of course it should be is it? We are incredibly privileged to live in an area where all we have to do is turn a knob to get some water for most of the world that shit ain't reality.

 

Because it's not a right to deny people life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that's what this racist system does.

Because the terms "Right" and "Privilege" are mutually exclusive.

 

Are they? You really believe you have rights? Have you not been paying attention?

 

Yes. Even when they are violated or taken. Why fight or protest for something that you don't have a right to?

 

None of mine volunteered.

 

what's your point exactly?

 

Just Like ra's


I think its a hateful and unproductive conversation. Its no different in the conversations about bw .

Look at the person from which the words came from and who called it "logical"

You had an excellent pt in how jw took up the cause but took a left turn in the whole light skinned versus dark skin issue.

And overall k was right in what she said. This victim measuring stick is for the birds

 

White privilege is a thing.
Light skinned privilege, not really.

Trying to argue if two equally qualified Black applicants apply for the same job and one happens to be light skinned and the other darker from my personal experience just isn't proven out in the real world the light skinned applicant will have an advantage.

Maybe it happens sometimes, but I have never heard dark skinned people gripe and complain about the job they lost or house they didn't get because of a light skinned Black person.

Trying to turn light skinned privilege into a 'thing' almost on par with White privilege makes no sense and sounds like whining.

Jesse Williams doesn't have light skinned privilege.
He's got I-look-White-and-have-to-tell-you-I'm-Black privilege.

Light skin privilege really only exists in the Black community, since we tend to value more Black men and women with lighter skin.

 

Well darn. Good post

 

Ricardo is mad cause Jesse is light skinned and married to a bw.

 

Wish I could rep

 

Goodlove give Boba some of that purple rep. Lol

 

Yah I tried and can't either.

 

This again is some classic ignorant privilege shit. Just because YOU haven't heard of or personally experienced something doesn't mean it doesn't happen. There are several books on colorism just use Google it's really simple.
And I never once said it was on par with white privilege I use white privilege as an example because most of you need to be spoon fed with simplistic analogies to grasp certain things.
It's like if something isn't a mirror image of what you already know to be true it simply doesn't exist. Colorism is a thing in most communities, look at Hispanics and Asians there are plenty of articles and personal accounts of being allowed jobs because of skin tone but since it isn't happening to you it just isn't happening right? Literally sounds like every white denier of police brutality or any kind of racism in this country. They don't see it so black people are whining and just love to complain. Oh the irony lol