There is NO such thing as White Privilege!!!

I have been thinking about this ever since I heard the two words together, used as a descriptor. It didn't make sense to me then and it still doesn't. When I heard the words "white privilege" my brain said "what in the hell is that, it doesn't compute". I had no idea why that phrase never registered with me but I kept it moving, figuring it'll either come to me or it won't.

Well it came to me, like a bolt of damn lightning out of the clear blue. My brain beat this thing around for weeks and it finally cracked the code, yes I had a eureka moment. There is no such thing as "White Privilege", do you know why? It's really simple actually, like without "bad" there can be no "good", and without "up" there can be no "down", without Black privilege, there can be no white privilege. And we ALL know there is no such thing as Black privilege here in America.

Sure there are well to do, well off Blacks in this country. Those that live in gated communities, drive $100,000+ cars, have high powered careers that earn them hundreds of thousands if not millions a year, and have not a care in the world. Sadly though, these people are more than likely actors, athletes, or singers. I know there are some that work in the corporate world and make that kind of money, but let's be real here, compared to white people, how many Blacks run hedge funds? How many Blacks are CEO's, COO's, or CFO's of Fortune 500 companies? You could probably count them on one hand.

Remember Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his episode with the white cop who didn't believe Mr. Gates actually lived in his own house? They ironed things out with a beer WITH THE PRESIDENT! Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a a literary critic, scholar, author, and editor. He was the first Black person to ever receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship. He is a television personality who has hosted many shows on PBS and he's received countless honorary awards for his teaching and his development of academic institutions devoted to African-American studies. In simplest terms, he is an African-American ICON.

Back in 2009, this icon was returning home from a trip and had a hard time opening his door which was jammed. Both he and the driver couldn't get it open. A passerby called the police fearing a break-in. A police officer shows up and ends up arresting Mr. Gates, citing disorderly conduct. If there was ANY man that should have enjoyed "Black Privilege" it should have been Mr. Gates, and yet he was thrown onto the hood of a police car, cuffed, arrested, and charged because he was trying to get into his own house. Two Black icons, President Obama and Mr Gates, along with the Vice President shared a beer with some unknown, unheralded, white flatfoot because of this incident.

It's time to stop calling it "White Privilege" and call it what it truly is, "Privilege". Privilege is something Black people seldom get, if at all. The definition of Privilege is "a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people". Now when you realize that Black and brown people rarely ever get the benefit of the doubt, you know there is no WAY there is something as off the wall as "Black Privilege". So it's time we stop calling it "White Privilege", that doesn't exist. Just call it Privilege because that's what it is.