Re: [Marxism] white privilege vs white supremacy - please be more specific

[Benjamin Morgan <foreverblaze89@xxxxxxxxx>]

Comrade Ben:

I think white privilages goes a little bit deeper than what is touched on in 
this list. First to examine what it really means we must delineate the term 
white privilage from racism. Racism isn't hatred against another race, that is 
prejudice. Rather, racism is domination over a people based on race. In this 
context i don't think white privilages can be simply equivocated to racism. 
White privilage from my understanding are all of the benifits covert or overt 
that stratify white people from being able to understand or sympathize with 
peoples of color. Under this definition I don't think it merely has to do with 
the aspect of inferiority versus superiority; which racism provides for. I 
think it has more to do with the everyday mundane folkways and more`s that 
seperate white people from understanding the struggle of peoples of color and 
understanding the truths and validity of racism, it's consequences, and the 
phsycological and economic scars it has left
 on peoples of color. Tim Wise talks about this concept in his book "White Like 
Me" and also in this video clip of Tim Wise speaking at an MLK symposium (copy 
and paste the URL or click here) 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4688203482642236580&q=tim 
20wise&total=86&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

Ben

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