"White privilege" or why i disdain Sarah Palin..

So I'm in LA now and I can't remember the show's name, but its a political comedian who invites different people to speak their mind, this time it was a quite liberal group of people, Andrew Sullivan, ex Bush lober, Will I Am, Naomi Klein and the host who's name I don't remember.

I'm drunk and jetlagged, but I remember a few valuable points from the show:

1. It is the presidents job to protect the 10 commandments and not control/protect the country's security. After all, we don't let a hurricane or a car crash taking a couple of hundreds life control us like we let terrorism. We Like cars so we accept that causalties occur, we don't exercise this point of view when terrorists kill a couple of people.
We allow terrorists to corner us because we believe that if we lose control over our security, we lose control over our freedom.
Instead, we should stand up tall and make it clear that we don't allow any terrorist or muslim actions to control us, we should be able to stand up for our faith or values despite what they do.

2. Palin has gained a lot of white female support. What the RepublicanIts have had, is white male support. Should Democrats oppose Palin or will they lose the white female majority by doing so? I consider women or men for the matter of fact to be idiots, supporting their gender for the status quo?!
Its radicalism. I'm not sure if opposing them is the right move, but they might be ignorant enough to vote for Palin/McCain if ignored.

3. If McCain for whatever reason like not releasing his health records becomes incapacitated of performing his duty, Palin will become president. That is fucking scary.
Think of it. e're speaking of a woman who does not believe that global warming is man made. Abortion is only acceptable if it risks the health of the mother.
If you do not have the financial or emotional possibility of raising a child - do you think it is still ok to give birth to a child?

I could go on, but I'm drunk and tired. Here's something interesting I received today which brings me back to postcolonial studies, but I'll rant about that when I have time:


White Privilege

By Tim Wise
15/09/08

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who
are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it,
perhaps this list will help. 
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol
Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your
family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as
black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified
as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay. 

White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin '
redneck," like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with
you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you
like to "shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible,
all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges
in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out
of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community
college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to
achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as
unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first
place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state
with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of
Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't
all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator,
two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're
"untested."

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words
"under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good
enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be
immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the
pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part
wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals
and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which
you used to teach at a prestigious law school, requires it), is a
dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people
immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a
husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your
state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first,"
and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're
black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can
be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately
think she's being disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and
the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women
to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child
labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely
question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with
no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're
somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't
even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket
has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give
your party a "second look."

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support
your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or
being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black
and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in
Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years
whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely
criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an
explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring
Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in
speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on
Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a
good church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a
black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department
of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign
policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black
people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.

White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when
asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for
asking you such a "trick question," while being black and merely
refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means
you're dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and
nuanced.

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW
has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a
"light" burden.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could
possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George
W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing,
people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is
increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters
aren't sure about that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it's
just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which
is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem.

Tim Wise is the author of White Like Me (Soft Skull, 2005, revised
2008), and of Speaking Treason Fluently, publishing this month, also by
Soft Skull.

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