Brian,
My wife is Asian and five of my six grandchildren are African American. So while I might be an “old white dude”, I live and breathe diversity 24 hours a day… it is something we talk about in our family, it is our daily reality. So that whole white privilege crap gets pretty tiring… of all my grandchildren, my son’s four African American grandchildren are the ones most “privileged” today… as an EVP of a company earning a great income, his children get all the benefits growing up in a two college educated parent household along with all the benefits of affirmative action… now that is kickass…
Secondly, you do realize that at least 3 minority groups outperform privileged American whites. Number 1, Nigerian immigrants… wow… no one noticed the color of their skin. Number 2, Chinese Americans… hey… didn’t anyone notice they are not white? Number 3, Jews… how can we be getting our asses kicked by Jews…
Now the Nigerian immigrants I can understand, I mean they are a “select group” of all stars with amazing educational credentials coming to this country with a significant advantage over the average white guy. But Chinese Americans, they were born here like the rest of us… where is our systemic racist system breaking down? And don’t even get me started on the Jews… most Jewish families have been in the US for more than 100 years and they are still kicking our asses.
I recently looked at a Payscale study with more than 54 million data points, that studied the gender and racial pay gap… it found only a 2–3% gap between white men and most other groups that could not be explained by other variables in their database unrelated to race and gender. Now get this, Asian women outearn white men by about 2%, so who the hell forgot to tell those employers in this white privilege world that we were supposed to make more?
Larry Elder and Tom Sowell, the latter a renowned African American social economic scholar have some simple advice for every young person growing up in America… follow these five steps that are not really that hard and you will be successful in 97 plus percent of the cases…
The most important thing is do all five steps in precisely the order shown below and they work regardless of skin color…
- Graduate high school,
- Go on to secure the expertise needed for your chosen career (college, vocational schools, apprenticeships, etc).
- Start your career
- Get married and stay married
- Have children
Personally, I did not follow those steps and I came out of the gate pretty shaky… got married in college… it made the rest so much harder and my marriage ended in divorce… eventually I go back on the track… and in this my second marriage everything happened at the right time… more than 30 years ago and thanks to my wonderful wife, we raised not only our two children but my three children from my first marriage… and my youngest daughter left for college yesterday…
I have five children so far four have practiced the formula in the right order and everything is on track… one opted to repeat my mistakes and she struggles with poverty… and guess what she is white!
