On June 22nd 2021, the UK Parliamentary committee published a report titled: “The forgotten: how White working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it”.
This wasn’t a subjective or arbitrary standard plucked out of thin air, either. The UK government had gone by the “free school meals” (FSM) eligibility criteria, which meant the pupils’ parents had already been income means tested and shown to be in such poverty as to require free school meals - meals that typically cost roughly £1.28 a day. Being in this bracket was already a bad sign.
Of those on the FSM, the school performance was assessed against all ethnic strata. Only 53% of White British were meeting the minimum standard of education, compared to 61% for Black Carribean, 64% Black African, 66% Indian and 67% Chinese. The only worst performers were still in the White category - Irish Traveller at 29% and Gyspy/Roma at 33%. Essentially, all White groups were failing to succeed education wise.
And before you object, this isn’t some study done by ‘racists’. The UK government’s graph carefully tiptoes around mentioning black students putting them into the ‘all’ group, even as it distinguishes Chinese in a classically ‘woke’ faux pas:
The document goes on to note that White British FSM receivers were the most underrepresented in Higher Education at 16%, were some of the poorest, and least likely to succeed. Indeed, the study strikes at the heart of the stereotypical, uneducated concept of “white privilege” itself:
What we also know is that the disadvantaged White pupils our inquiry focuses on do not have “White Privilege” in the education system [...]
A damning remark if there was one. The study original went in to try to prove there was systematic racism in the form of “white privilege”, and instead found the system was discriminating against Whites showing the opposition. In a majority White nation. How can there be privilege if whites don’t even have it in a nation of which they’re the majority?
The Concept Of White Privilege Is An Insult… To Other Races
If you put one person of each skin colour - because that is all the title of “white privilege” is judging, skin colour - with the same natural resources, same set of tasks, same objectives, the advocates of “white privilege” want you to imagine somehow, skin colour alone gives an implicit advantage and they will somehow, complete the tasks faster, sooner, or better than the others.
This actually deprives other people of power. It says to them, ‘you can never be good enough because you don’t have the right skin colour’. It doesn’t matter if you have a history of engineering, running a successful business, famous with many friends - Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Kanye West, Lenny Henry, KSI - apparently, according to the myth of ‘white privilege’ that won’t ever be good enough.
It Is An Insult To Black Freedom Movements
Martin Luther King Jr famously said the words, which I am sure many of you will echo with me now, given even in a time of persecution the man succeeded:
[…] I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. […]
Martin Luther King Jr - MLKJ - spoke of how he envisaged white and black children holding hands, unified in a focus on ‘content of character’, not one of skin colour. The insulting notion of “white privilege” asks you to forget famous people like MLKJ and his speech.
The man went through hell, lived through persecution, and he didn’t stoop to judging by skin colour, and yet, “white privilege” advocates suggest we should do. Ignore the evidence of failing White school children, they’ll automatically succeed and conjure up food into their mouths despite requiring a free school meals programme because their skin is a specific shade of beige-white.
This was despite the fact MLKJ said if there was any reparation monies to be paid, it ought to be distributely evenly amongst all the disadvantaged. Forget the hard work of unity MLKJ fought successfully for, focus on this stereotypical, historically ignorant trend.
Africans Were Slavers Too… For Far Longer
The classic frame of reference people point to - historically - is that slave owners were White. And sure, we can contend there were White slave owners. But have you heard of the Barbary pirates?
The Barbary pirates were Muslims who operated out of West Africa, they raided as far as Iceland in a time of wind powered sailing ships, took Irish, and European Christians - Whites - as slaves, and were known for their brutality and speed. Entire organisations were set up to either exchange one set of Christians for another, or monies paid as ransom.
This wasn’t some isolated trend in a short period of history. They operated from the middle-ages (1198) and didn’t cease until the region of Algeria was conquered by France in 1830, a whopping 632 years later. Boo, Colonalism that, uh… stops slave taking pirates? (see: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica).
Now, if you’re a “white privilege” advocate you’ll likely dismiss this clear cut evidence of Black slavers who aren’t Christians as somehow not being relevant as your sole focus is only on the bad things Whites do (because the concept of “white privilege” in, and of itself, is racist), because that has all that has been drumrolled in mainstream media who aren’t interested in historical facts.
But even if you were to go down this path…
The Majority Of Whites Weren’t Slavers
And we’re talking a 99.9% type statistic here. Think about it for a second. Not everyone can be a super rich J. P. Morgan with ‘strikebreakers’ and militia armed with guns breaking up workers’ “riots” to force them back into work. Not everyone can afford a plantation cotton field, a large sailing boat, someone to “maintain good order”, or pay monies to buy slaves at auctions.
In-fact, the majority of Whites were overwhelmingly poor. To be part of the Slave trade - and I bet you often see the typecast two storey multi-room Southern mansions in cliche western flicks - you needed to be rich, and not just ‘shop-owner’ middle income types of rich, but “f**k you” levels of rich where you could afford to appropriate entire ships from continents away. Ships with manual crews operating with wind sails were not cheap, nor were the slavers operating in the continent of Africa itself.
In-fact, the majority of Whites were likely very much anti-slavery, because slaves directly competed with their jobs. Every job a slave was working meant one less paying job for the poor. It’d be like if Jeff Bezos replaced your burger flipping job with a space robot; that means more people out of work. And of course the rich want this, it’s cheaper for their bottom line - which is why so many rich corporations support migration into the country or the outsourcing of labour to slave-labour using countries such as China. Angry racism didn’t drive slavery; indifferent ruthless apathetic profiteering did.
Indeed, if you look behind the racist, violent and bloody trail of the KKK - comprised primarily of impoverished Southern Whites - their agenda was to ‘drive blacks out’. They didn’t want blacks there ‘taking their jobs’ or ‘taking their women’.
To have them not take their jobs, they were essentially arguing for them to not be slaves, to “go back to their own country”. How can Whites be both pro-slave ownership and pro-deportation? Obviously there are two competing financial metric groups here. The poor, who are vehemently anti-slavery and anti-migration, and the rich who are vehemently pro-slavery and pro-migration.
For them, it was a competition metric. Black people posed a competitive threat. If the KKK felt privileged, they wouldn’t feel threatened. Instead, they felt so threatened they resorted to gruesome acts of violence. How can you compete on the jobs market if the guy next to you is made to work for free or less than you do?
If even the most violent racists were opposed to slavery and the import of Blacks simply on the grounds of competition and self-interest, how do you think the average man with common decency felt? It was a combination of recognition that it is exploitation and horror - likely the same you might feel over the prawn slave trade in Thailand or the Uyghur Muslim slavery in China.
Dividing By Skin Colour Leads To Racism
Martin Luther King Jr recognised this problem, which is why he supported financial aid for all deprived races, because financial deprivation of one race leads to resentment of the other, and to paraphrase Yoda, resentment leads to hate. Which is precisely what repeating the “white privilege” mantra does, because it a drives a “you and us” wedge of ‘Whites versus Blacks’ that leads to resentment.
“White privilege” advocacy, in it’s most racist form, says there can never be any good White people, and they’re only good if they meet some undefined arbitrary or insane definition - supposedly obnoxiously and profusely apologising to Black people for crimes they haven’t even committed, repeating for sins they aren’t even guilty of - invented by people who never lived in poverty and never went through the history of the slave trade or persecution. MLKJ lived through it, and he was thoroughly opposed to skin colour based divisions.
In truth, the real threats weren’t the Whites - the heavily White populated areas of the North of America were pro-abolishment - meanwhile the rich folks of the South were anti-abolishment. The issue isn’t “white privilege”, it is rich privilege. And we can go beyond this, and prove it by looking at crime statistics.
The Biggest Threat To Blacks Are… Other Blacks
This will sound like a complete headspin, until you look at the FBI homicide (Brits: murder) statistics.
Unlike most European countries, who censor race-based reporting on crime statistics, using lies, deception and omission (typically reporting that “a man” attacked someone if they’re non-White, and vicariously reporting on White skin colour if they are) that only fuel greater racism and distrust amongst races, and fail to allowing tackling of the real problem by hiding it (if race isn’t a factor, why are you hiding the statistics?), the FBI often publishes data by race.
Now, due to the pandemic and lockdowns of 2020, the most recent data is 2019, and to be fair, 2020 wouldn’t be a ‘typical’ comparison given the skewered nature. The FBI have not yet published data for 2021, and it isn’t entirely clear why, so I’m forced to refer to 2019 statistics here.
In the table, the number of Black victims killed by Whites is “246”. It sounds terrible in a nation of 330 million people, so many Black victims. Until you flip the race around, and find there were “566” Whites victims killed by Blacks. Ah. That must be the “privilege” referred to earlier. Privileged to be poor, privileged to lose jobs, and now privileged to be killed.
But the biggest killer of Whites isn’t Blacks… it is other Whites, with “2,594” victims.
Likewise, the biggest killer of Blacks isn’t Whites… it is other Blacks, at “2,574”.
Now, factor in there are percentages here. There are fewer Blacks in the whole of the US than Whites. According to Pew Research, in 2019, 14% of the US population were Black, so when you see Blacks killing as many Blacks as Whites are killing Whites, what you’re seeing is a disproportionate number of Blacks being killed by Blacks.
That would mean, if 100% of the US was Black, there would be roughly 4,787 dead Blacks, as opposed to the 2,594 dead Whites. If the goal of “white privilege” advocates was to address inequality or harms to Black communities, they are failing hard because they’re not addressing the actual perpetrators of the crime.
Indeed, being so lopsided and only blaming Whites for everything means the Black perpetrators who kill other Blacks get away with the crime. You can’t mention a Black person killed another Black person if you’re White - according to “white privilege” advocates - because that is somehow racist, in a paradoxical juxaposition.
It Isn’t Because Of ‘White’ Police Officers Either
When cornered with the mass murder rates of Blacks by other Blacks, “white privilege” advocates (who themselves are often White liberals with no understanding of actual Black problems) will reach for the ‘White police officers must be oppressing them’ stunstick.
Sure, let us assume there are corrupt police officers. I think everybody has seen a few. To be honest, corrupt police officers often don’t give a s**t whose race you are, because, you know, they’re corrupt, they don’t have priniciples to begin with.
Mexican Uvalde police officers sat outside for 77 minutes (1 hour, 17 minutes) as a Mexican gunman shot Mexican school children, and it took an off-duty BORTAC (Border Tactical) agent to end the stand-off. If corrupt police officers - especially border agents - are supposed to be racist, they sure do a s**t job of either defending their own race or being racist.
But we can easily discredit the ‘White police officers are doing this’ by pointing to a region of the US with an entirely Black police force. The region of Compton, California, is infamous in Black history. Rappers will issue images saying “Straight Outta Compton” based on the film of the same name by Rap group NWA.
In the book “Ghetto Cops”, it was noted that Compton police force had a 99% “non-White” (there’s that classic anti-White phrase that doesn’t mention the other races) police force. Compton got their first Black police commander as early as the 1980s. The LA times reported by 1987, there were 36 gangs - alluded to in the film by NWA - within the 10 square miles of the city limits. Roughly 3 gangs for every square mile.
And you could be excused to thinking Compton was some city-dense area, akin to New York City, where dense skyscrapers hide vicarious amounts of crime. But, alas, no, Compton - even as of right now - has a meagre population of 95,740. To put that in perspective, Cheyenne, Wyoming, one of the least populous US capital cities, has a mere 576,851 people. Compton is five times smaller, covering a much smaller area.
The performance of Compton PD was so bad, with so many Black homicides, robberies and murders in a primarily Black region policed by Blacks, that Compton police department was ultimately disbanded in 2000.
Despite this, Compton kept topping the murder rates of Blacks even as recently as 2015, even as attempts to re-establish a new police department there keep failing. So, no, the solution to Black violence, or Black-on-Black violence, isn’t to go full racist and have an ‘all-one-Black-race’ police department with a handwave towards imaginary “white privilege”.
The Problem Is Moral Corruption, Not Race
Even when you persecute all Whites out of a job role - imagine the surprise - the problems still exist. Because they’re not driven by Whites, or their imaginary “privilege”. It is evident that skin colour has no bearing of effect on corruption or effectiveness of a police department.
And why would it? Corruption by default has no morals, no loyalties, not even loyalties to race. If corrupt deputies couldn’t find any Black people to abuse, they’d happily abuse old White grannies by planting drugs on them (the 28 year old had framed 120 people). Because, you know, they’re corrupt. Race is just the excuse for that corruption. A retroactive justification.
Do you honestly think the KKK would be happy if some other, non-Black race had “taken their jobs” instead? Mexicans? Space aliens? Robots? (See Luddites). You’re probably saying “no”, and you’d be right, because corruption afixes and invents any excuse to cover its tracks. Including the excuse of “white privilege” so it can persecute and sigmatise Whites.
Whites Were Majority Mistreated By The Rich And Immoral Too
Do you genuinely think every White person was a rich toff sitting at a dinner table laughing obnoxiously as hundreds of slaves were toiling in the background? Do you genuinely think the housing crisis of both the US and UK are because so many White people are overwhelmingly born into rich families?
Or is it because so many are too poor to be able to afford their own homes as a narrow slice of the population makes it too unaffordable? Britain already had a form of White slavery. Enforced by the rich. It was called workhouses.
You were forced to work there to pay off your debts. Except it was a perpetual slavery - much like the modern day for-profit prison system in the US - where you barely earned anything. Conditions in workhouses were unhygienic, disease spread was rife, machinery antiquated and dangerous, toxic vapours filled the air, food quality was poor bordering on poison, people worked more hours than modern day NHS doctors. Disabilities were rife. Men and women were imprisoned alike. Children too.
And if you couldn’t or wouldn’t work, you went to debtor’s prison, which should read like ‘extremely harsh solitary confinement’. No talking. Kept indoors all day. Only the four walls to keep you company. Physical beatings.
But lets say you were “free”. You were free to live in cramped conditions. Free to get chlorea. Free to work in toxic, dark, narrow, often collapsing coal mines as a child where children as young as 5 worked 12 hours a day. You think we historically had “white privilege”? F**k you. It is an insult to history, an insult to current affairs, a blaise insult to the hard work ethic of the working poor - and you come barging in with your misguided notions you learned from an out-of-touch schoolteacher rabbited on a social media course with no factual accuracy, and couldn’t be bothered to verify the history of suffering of Black people or White?
Do you wear Nike trainers? Because slaves made that. Exploited in Bangladesh, China, Thailand, Congo, slaves the world over provide goods you take full advantage of, and you talk about “white privilege”?
You know what is privilege? Not ever having to work in a coal mine until you die from childhood. Being able to buy slave made goods overseas on the cheap and then whining about historical wrongs whilst failing to correct present ones. Having the free time to patronise people as you contribute nothing to society. It is amazing how many of the rich have adopted this ideology to deflect from the fact they themselves were responsible for the hardships suffered by all races.
No, your invented pronoun bulls**t doesn’t give you a free pass. Try actual suffering, try actual hard work. Saying ‘sorry’ whilst advocating a dementia agenda doesn’t cut it. Go do some historical homework. Don’t repeat braindead mantras. Understand Black history and Black suffering. Understand White history and White suffering.
Our unified suffering at the hands of the immoral is what unites us. Don’t drive a wedge over race when you have so little understanding of the problems of humanity.
It can’t be watered down into a token soundbyte solved by ‘kneeling’ in hundred dollar shoes on a several thousand dollar forecourt wearing slave made clothing whilst on a several million dollar contract broadcasted live by billion dollar rich corporatist industries, retweeted on a pedophile-enabling social media network using a child-slavery cobalt mining environment destroying smartphone manufactured in slavery using China who fuel their factories with coal, and imported by out-of-touch robotic firms fueling en-mass child murder as they exploit workers and form monopolistic practices, and think you’re in any position to talk about “privilege”, “White” or otherwise.
You know what improved western societies? Philantrophists. Not the selfish Bill Gates kind who do it for their own ego, but the kind who set up schools, improved drinking water, and lobbied the government hard for change (William Wilburforce, for example). Morality. Put your skin colour discrimination by the door and compare people with the lense of morality.
“White privilege” is a myth.
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Interesting points! I don't think white privilege is a myth in every respect. I have seen very clearly how blacks and whites are treated differently by police, and I understand that there may be good reasons for it also, but regardless, driving while black is a criminal offense in USA. Not sure about Europe.