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When there are more poor white kids than all others combined, can we still claim white privilege?


THIS IS DEDICATED TO ALL MY RURAL LIBERAL FRIENDS

I never discount anyone's individual story because we've all faced disaster and loss.

But seriously, how many black people do you know personally? Have you ever been in the Deep South? Lived in a minority neighborhood? I find that those who have aren't as rabid about this issue.

I'm just sayin. Los Angeles and SoCal are a very mixed bag of cultures and religions and races and whatever other groups we split ourselves into. But I don't see that mixture in the rural areas because a few things are missing: Black people.

There just aren't many out here which makes me wonder.

Before going on, I want to frame this as only Vlivertarian can: I have defended the shootings and beatings of black men because it happens too often to ignore. As for your 'black' friends, I do not discount that they have experienced some forms of racism. No question. But hasn't everybody suffered from some form of prejudice whether it be body, height, age, sex, income, race, sexual preference, disability, nationality?

We all have our burdens to bear, is my point.

My bigger point is to actually turn that around and try to understand why hard-working White Americans who work crappy jobs and live in poverty their entire lives are just a little peeved when someone says they "benefit from White Privilege." Seriously, even the NAACP says there are more white children living in poverty than all other races COMBINED. (See the statistics from the NAACP website below.)

Does that make any sense?

My liberal friends, you don't have to agree with how those white folks feel, but just try to understand why those people are registering to vote in record numbers so they can stop feeling hated by every person of color in the country?

I am old enough to remember the great civil rights movement of the 1960s. We are there again, just as Jefferson and others predicted. Every 30 or 40 years there is a revolt. We are on the precipice of history and it has already been more exciting than any election I can remember since 1968.

My point is that, due to mixed-race children, the percentage of blacks in the country is shrinking, down from around 20 percent in the late 70s to about 12 percent today. Of that 12 percent, 10.5 percent live in the seven major urban centers of the country. I have traveled all over this country and gone days and even weeks without even seeing a black person. I have done the same living in rural Washington and Montana.

My contention is that most rural people who claim that racism is rampant haven't ever even seen a black person except the ones the cops beat up and shoot on TV, or in sports or entertainment. On the same subject, the Latino population is growing quickly which brings up even more questions.

The Latinos are growing due to mixed race marriages plus Latinos have entered the United states far more different ways and places than Africans did. That's why we see them in rural and urban areas from border to border. I've seen estimates that more than 70 percent of all households have a Latino living in them or have relatives of Latinos.

Back to the issue. If racism is as rampant as some claim, why are white people marrying and having children with so many minorities?

So it comes back again to my post from earlier today: If racism and poverty are still so bad, after 52 years of the Great Society and 84 years after The New Deal, maybe we need a different strategy.

 

The NCCP fact sheet shows that among America’s poor children, 4.2 million are white, 4 million are Latino, 3.6 million are African American, 400,000 are Asian, and 200,000 are American Indian.

While the figures indicate that indeed more white children are poor, they also show, however, that higher percentages of minorities live in poor families:

  • 10% of white children (4.2 million). In the 10 most populated states, rates of child poverty among white children range from 7% in Texas to 12% in Michigan.

  • 27% of Latino children (4 million). In the 10 most populated states, rates of child poverty among Latino children range from 19% in Florida to 35% in Pennsylvania.

  • 33% of black children (3.6 million). In the 10 most populated states, rates of child poverty among black children range from 29% in California and Florida to 47% in Ohio.

  • 12% of Asian children (400,000) and 40% of American Indian (200,000) Comparable state comparisons are not possible due to small sample sizes.

http://www.vlivertarian.com/single-post/2014/05/01/Health-care-issues-discussed-in-Congress

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