We all get some advantages, and some disadvantages. When we’re kids, it’s the responsibility of the adults around us to help us identify our advantages (talents, skills, interests) and learn how to use them to overcome the disadvantages.

(Yes, Nextset may trot out _The Bell Curve_ again, and beat that dead horse some more about which races have the most and least disadvantages. Whatever floats his boat. My point is about individuals – for example, my autistic son is an OUSD high school graduate, and a college freshman at CSUEB. He has the advantages of being a white male, raised in a middle-class, two parent family. And he has the very serious disadvantage of his autism. He got into a four-year university, because he’s *worked* really hard to overcome that disadvantage.)

Once we’re adults, it’s our own responsibility to figure out how we can best play the hand we’ve been dealt. Blaming others is a childish behavior and attempts to avoid that personal responsibility.

But following on from Sue’s comment about how the Bradleys of this world (middle class white men) should “stop crying in their beers about lost privilege and learn how to compete with intelligent and hard-working folks of other races”, I would add that the Black community should stop crying victimization and cease blaming others for their shortcomings and learn how to compete with intelligent and hard-working folks of other races. Basically, we should also stop blaming others for “holding us back” or “taking what was ours” and get on with things.

Women in general have made great strides and they will probably enjoy success on even higher levels in the future. Women graduate from college at a significantly higher rate than the male peers and they are taking this commitment and drive to the workforce. Men could learn a thing or two from women!

I do remember a *lot* of men who were seriously threatened and upset at the competition (supposedly unfair!) from girls/women of my generation. “Tough luck boys, stop whining and crying because a *girl* is smarter and/or works harder.”

They either learned how to compete with me on an almost-level playing field (they still had the advantage, and I always had to prove I was better, not merely as good as my competition) and quit their belly aching, or I left them in the dust.

Bradley just needs to stop crying in his beer about his lost privilege, and learn how to compete with intelligent and hard-working folks of other races. Either he can figure that out for himself and then he’ll *do* it, or he can’t. But none of us can change his mind and it’s a waste of our time to try, however on-topic it is to this particular blog entry.

Why don’t I just move to a white state? Because even though it’s unofficially illegal to be a strong proud white person in the Bay Area, the powers that be haven’t come out and officially declared it illegal. It’s not illegal to be white yet around here, but you are still — in the name of decency — expected to feel pretty bad about it. Secondly, white flight is close to running its course, if it hasn’t already. Had we stood our ground in the ’60s and ’70s, we wouldn’t have been ethnically cleansed from the big cities our ancestors built. Besides that, there are a lot people (perhaps like you) who feel that we mustn’t rest until every last nook and cranny of the U.S., Canada, Australia and West Europe have been multiculturalized, so there’s no guarantee that any white state one moves to is going to stay white. The federal government’s refugee programs seem to take particular delight in resettling Developing World refugees in the whitest parts of America — Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota etc. Why do they do this?

Anyway, until that portion of white America that does not hate itself and feel guilty for the crime of being born white is allowed to secede and have a chunk of current U.S. land to form our own country, we at the very least need a formal organization advocating for our interests. All the other races have this, but we don’t, so that’s why our concerns get pushed aside if they’re considered at all.

I wonder, AC Mom, how much you really love diversity. Would you send a child to Richmond High School? I guess that charmingly diverse bunch there that committed the atrocity on that poor girl last year are finally going on trial. I wonder if the victim was white. One of the defendants did look like a white boy, further proof of how multiculturalism is dragging white folks downhill, too. Richmond High: now that’s a poster child for multicultural education, isn’t it?

I’m not sure what socioeconomic class you’re in, AC Mom, but for the upper middle class and higher diversity just means more cute little ethnic shops and restaurants where they can eat and shop for tchotchkes. For those of us more financially challenged white folks, diversity means more competition for jobs, more catering to the wants of other races in schools, more harassment and intimidation in the schools and really a lot of other problems too long to list here.

Why did I post here? Because I came across the story above, saw the comments and decided you good folk needed to know that not every white person ’round these parts is too apathetic and/or dumb and/or scared to see through the agenda being advanced against us. At least part of my tax dollars go to the OUSD, which in turn uses that money to indoctrinate children of all races into anti-white propaganda that passes for “education.”

Just like the homosexuals in the ’70s made a point of telling the world they were out here, they weren’t going away and they weren’t going to shut up, so is it the case with some of us uppity working-class white folk who aren’t buying this garbage like “white privilege.”

We’re white, we’re right, get used to it!

All that you would have to do is move to Idaho, Montana, Utah, etc. (if you don’t live there already) and you’d be a few steps closer to Valhalla. People do it all the time. Figure out a way to fly under the radar of the IRS and you’re good to go. You’re free of non-whites, white liberal guilt, moneyed elites and “the man” in one fell swoop! Find yourself a wife, have some babies, homeschool your kids and maybe they can build you a rocket to Mars. Doesn’t that sound wonderful!

One question. Why do you care to post on an Education Blog in a city that (at least publically) embraces multiculturalism? It’s not like we all arrived in Oakland and said, “My gosh; no one looks the same!” Those who find it intolerable to live here (regardless of reason)will do what they can to leave.

Cheers!

I want to preface my comment by saying it gives me no enjoyment to say harsh things about blacks or other nonwhites. If you’re reading this and you’re not white, know this: I’m not writing here because I think it’s fun to trade insults with you. I’m writing here because for too long in this country, anti-white slander and libel has been allowed and even promoted in the press and schools with no challenge. Now, thanks to this great white invention called the Internet, some of us evil white men can — horror of horrors — actually contradict these lies and half-truths in front of a wider audience than in the past.

I have a dream that one day white children will be able to go to school and not hear their race slandered. And at white-taxpayer expense, to boot. I have to believe at least some, if not most, of the OUSD’s budget comes from white taxpayers, so the fact that people can actually make a living defaming whites — in addition to being able to do this at all in public — is particularly infuriating. Here’s a little thought experiment: try to go around talking about any other group as privileged and see how far you get. How long would it take the ADL to crucify any college professor lecturing his students about “Jew privilege,” for example? And speaking of that, a recent comment mentioned Wall Street shenanigans as an example of “white” crime and misbehavior. I’d recommend he check out the ethnicity of a lot (dare I say most?) of these white-collar criminals: Bernie Madoff, Andy Fastow from Enron, Michael Milken, even Ivan Boesky in the ’80s were Jews to a man. So as I said before, please stop confusing us with the Jews. Let’s clear up the definition of “white.” It means straight, white gentiles of the working- and middle-class variety, not rich whites who’ve sold out our race like the Bushes and the Clintons (who are now also rich) by serving as puppets for the powers that be and engaging in aggression against Israel’s enemies in the Muslim world.

BTW, here’s two recent and local examples of nonwhite privilege. A high court recently ruled that illegal aliens don’t have to pay out-of-state tuition in California colleges but U.S. citizens from out of state DO have to pay the higher tuition. You know most of these illegal alien California college students are Latin American mestizos, so there’s your first example of how nonwhites are privileged over whites. The second example is the entire Dellums administration at Oakland City Hall. Talk about a guy who just mailed it in! Apparently, he’s now going to give his last State of the City speech as a tape recording, and it’s unknown if he’ll publicly speak again as mayor before his term ends. Could a white mayor get away with this kind of absentee-landlord performance? And let’s not even get into Dellums’ potentially criminal personal tax and expense scandals. In fairness, I guess the equally ethically-challenged Don Perata was trying to the same thing — basically taking the Oakland mayor’s job as a payoff for his years in government, wherein he could coast for his last few years at work. But Perata’s a white guy, so he couldn’t get away with it, further proving my point — hahahaha! One last thing about Dellums — I have to wonder if he’s the only nonwhite manager anyone knows of out there who seems like he can’t be bothered to do much around the workplace, even when he does put in a “special guest appearance.” Well, I guess there are white managers out there who do the same, just maybe not quite as blatantly.

Now here’s the part where most people usually say, “Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a racist. Some of my best friends are blah, blah blah, blah.” I won’t do that because don’t get me wrong — I’m a stone cold racist. While I don’t want to see my race ruling or reigning supreme over any other race, I do think we white people need to start protecting and pursuing our interests without guilt or apology, just like we used to and just like every other race does. As some of the other commenters have correctly pointed out, you don’t have look hard to find white misbehavior and generally low-class living these days either. The reason? Because this whole multicultural experiment launched in the ’60s has failed and done nothing but bring out the worst in every race. You now see middle-class white kids aping the mannerisms, behavior and expression of the lowest classes the black race in this country has to offer. Personally, I had hoped by 2010 that white civilization would’ve produced colonies on the moon and Mars and that we’d all be flying around magnificent technological cities in our personal aircraft, just like the future used to be imagined. Why hasn’t anything resembling this happened? Because we’ve now had to sacrifice the education of several generations of white children on the altar of multiculturalism. I know there are exceptions, but let’s face it: for most black and Hispanic kids that whole “school” thing with the chalkboards, books, teachers, pencils, notebooks etc. is not really their cup o’ tea. Because of this the whole curriculum’s had to be dumbed down and standards lowered in the public schools in the name of all this “progress” we’ve had since the ’60s.

The answer: total geographic segregation. As my old pal Fred Nitzsche said, “When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you.” Well I stared into the abyss and came to the conclusion that segregation was a superior system to what we have now. Every race in this country used to behave better than it does now. That’s why I have a lot of respect for Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam — ’cause they get it. Every race should be left alone to handle its own affairs and fix its own problems with its own resources, not the resources of other races (tax dollars, labor etc). As the black lady from New England pointed out several posts ago, black culture and black families used to be far better off than they are now, before multiculturalism was imposed on this country.

One last thing, a commenter a few posts back snidely remarked about “joining my race war,” or something to that effect. No, I’m not trying to start a race war, but something resembling a race war has been waged against white people for a long time, and for a long time we’ve been losing. There’s a statistic out there that something like 37,000 white women a year, which works out to more than 100 a day, are raped by men of color, while it doesn’t happen at all in the reverse (at least not in statistically significant numbers). This statistic is controversial and disputed, but whatever the true numbers are, don’t expect the mainstream media to report them. And can you imagine what the press would do if the opposite were true — an epidemic of white men raping women of color across America? I guess the news blackout regarding crimes against whites by people of color is just one more example of our “white privilege.”

Cheers

As for your other comments, that’s outside of the topic of this thread and this blog.