Our culture needs to decide. Do we want to raise up a generation who view themselves as victims or victors? Once we make the obvious choice, we can begin to speak and act accordingly.
I’m so fed up with all the talk I’ve always heard growing up. “You, as a black person, have to work twice as hard to get half as far.” The current term used to explain this is “white privilege.” Black folks hurl the accusation, and white folks either confess to it or rail against it. But all of it is detrimental to our culture, and the children pay the price.
I had a white man attempt to put me in my place on the subject in comments on my YouTube channel. It’s not the first time. His liberal mind continues to push the idea that white people have privilege. Like most liberals, this virtue signaling and guilt trip actually make them feel morally superior. “I’m more caring than you because I can acknowledge that black people are not on the same footing as people like me.” He has not said those words, but that’s what he’s saying. When people push back, he doubles down. It takes some nerve to tell a black person that you’re better than she is, have more opportunities than she does, and can rise higher than she can—because she’s black.