It's not. Both are divisive.
Go tell some some white boys in the hills of Kentucky how privileged they are.
White privilege. The very name is divisive. It suggests things that just aren't so.
We can be empathetic towards black people without condemning our own race. Racists are the only ones who need to ponder their pigment. A bunch of the black conservatives are preaching the following message & it goes something like this...the average white person isn't your enemy. A truer statement could never be uttered.
I'm not going to think about the color of my skin in relationship to other races, but I'll prop your race up. And I certainly won't apologize for being white like I've essentially seen some people do lately. My main concern is not leaving a bull#### society to my grandkids where they are forced to believe they're privileged & magical things will happen if you don't work hard.
The narrative is evil.
But they are, in fact, so.
You just claim people don't need to ponder their pigment...only racists do it...but you have gone around saying "black conservatives" over and over and over on this board.
White privilege isn't about enemies...its about understanding that there is an inherit advantage (for lack of a better word) to being born white. That there are just truths that we don't understand because we are white...that its hard to comprehend.
Again, and example and I will try and find the article on this...it was explained from the daughter of a police officer and why she was out marching or supporting things lately.
She explained her feeeling, and her family's feeling when her dad leaves for duty...the fear that it might be the night he doesn't come home. But when he comes home, he takes off his uniform and is active in the community and for some, they may not even know he is a cop. And he chooses to be a police officer...when he takes that risk it is by choice. He can resign and do something else. It was a choice (this is again not condoning any violence against police...please don't even try and claim that).
She then compares that to a black woman when her son leaves the house...worrying if he gets pulled over, or doesn't come home. That her son can't just come home and change skin color and go around as if its nothing...he didn't choose to be black.
Ive talked to people in my neighborhood about it and spend any time talking to black parents about their fears. When my son goes out...I don't fear him not coming home because of how he looks (only that he himself does something stupid). In a few months when he can drive on his own...I won't fear him being pulled over (other than the added expense of a ticket and insurance increase...though, that he will pay for). When he, or I see blue lights in the rearview mirror...we don't fear for our life. Just the inconvenience of a ticket.
There are plenty of ways to discuss white privilege...and its not to make me feel bad or guilty...its about empathy towards what other people go through. It doesn't mean I owe them anything other than what they already have from me and that is my friendship.
But denying it exists...thats just odd to me.