So, then why all this left-wing talk about white privilege?
The major reason is in order to portray blacks as victims. This achieves two huge goals for the left, one political, the other philosophical.
The political goal is to ensure that blacks continue to view America as racist. The left knows that the only way to retain political power in America is to perpetuate the belief among black Americans that their primary problem is white racism. Only then will blacks continue to regard the left and the Democrats as indispensable.
The philosophical reason is that the left denies -- as it has since Marx -- the primacy of moral and cultural values in determining the fate of the individual and of society. In the left's view, it is not poor values or a lack of moral self-control that causes crime, but poverty and, in the case of black criminals, racism. Therefore, the disproportionate amount of violent crime committed by black males is not attributable to the moral failure of the black criminal or to the likelihood of his not having been raised by a father but to an external factor over which he has little or no power -- white racism.
White privilege is another left-wing attempt, and a successful one, to keep America from focusing on that which will truly help black America -- a resurrection of the black family, for example -- and instead to focus on an external problem: white privilege.
'White Privilege': Part II in a Series of Widely Held Beliefs That Are Either Untrue or Meaningless
The major reason is in order to portray blacks as victims. This achieves two huge goals for the left, one political, the other philosophical.
The political goal is to ensure that blacks continue to view America as racist. The left knows that the only way to retain political power in America is to perpetuate the belief among black Americans that their primary problem is white racism. Only then will blacks continue to regard the left and the Democrats as indispensable.
The philosophical reason is that the left denies -- as it has since Marx -- the primacy of moral and cultural values in determining the fate of the individual and of society. In the left's view, it is not poor values or a lack of moral self-control that causes crime, but poverty and, in the case of black criminals, racism. Therefore, the disproportionate amount of violent crime committed by black males is not attributable to the moral failure of the black criminal or to the likelihood of his not having been raised by a father but to an external factor over which he has little or no power -- white racism.
White privilege is another left-wing attempt, and a successful one, to keep America from focusing on that which will truly help black America -- a resurrection of the black family, for example -- and instead to focus on an external problem: white privilege.
'White Privilege': Part II in a Series of Widely Held Beliefs That Are Either Untrue or Meaningless