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| Topic | It shouldn't be called "white privilege" |
| Antifar 09/08/17 12:33:20 PM #36: | RickyTheBAWSE posted... not sure who coined the term. I assume it was something that happened on a campus. It's original use was a bit different from how it is used today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege In his work, Allen maintained several points: that the "white race" was invented as a ruling class social control formation in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Anglo-American plantation colonies (principally Virginia and Maryland); that central to this process was the ruling-class plantation bourgeoisie conferring "white race" privileges on European-American working people; that these privileges were not only against the interests of African-Americans, they were also "poison," "ruinous," a baited hook, to the class interests of working people; that white supremacy, reinforced by the "white skin privilege," has been as the main retardant of working-class consciousness in the US; and that struggle for radical social change should direct principal efforts at challenging white supremacy and "white skin privileges". --- kin to all that throbs ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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