For the millionth time we know, white people are evil.
Via Mediaite:
An MSNBC panel on Friday dug into the issue of “white privilege,” and why so many white Americans reject or cannot recognize this concept. In a discussion about the need for an extension of long-term unemployment benefits and how that issue resonates more with minorities than white people, The Cycle panel insisted that majority privilege contrasts greatly with America’s debate over the “value of black life,” “with bullets.” […]
Center for Social Inclusion President Maya Wiley circled the conversation back to unemployment benefits, noting that long-term unemployed are often minorities particularly because of a lack of adequate public transportation in urban communities. […]
Touré submitted that too many white people cannot recognize “white privilege” because they don’t perceive themselves to be able to take advantage of any privilege. “That you as an individual white person are not able to utilize your white power or white privilege, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist,” he contended, “just like that I don’t have a car doesn’t mean cars don’t exist.”
Wiley insisted that white people’s problems need to be communicated to them in order for them to understand their privilege and for all to understand why minorities need an extension of long-term unemployment benefits.