A new definition for privilege of any race in the United States would be a believes that the police are here to serve and protect, and the idea that anywhere is safe. For me and so many this is not a theory. my criminal record consists of two speeding tickets in 58 years of life.
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The violence I know would scare most coddled humans and this is one reason I'm afraid to write Memoirs as people have asked because it would be so fucking shocking to the mild-mannered and well- born. And that violence came at the hands of my own family and those they let take me
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I'd lay odds that those of us who grew up with white and class privilege are a lot more likely to suffer violence from family than from police. And then there's the medical trauma from the assumption that women's medical problems are imaginary.
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Because of what you say about women. Because I just lost my husband I was fired from the last job I had my mother was dying craziest she was I loved her I was depressed. a welfare check meant breaking into my house and surrounding a sleeping woman at gunpoint ready to shoot her.
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A minor aside Sally I never once mentioned white nor did I mention class as definitive of what I am defining as privilege. surely they play in as you yourself have pointed out so astutely. Thank you for expanding the conversation it's important.
Jan 29, 2021 · 9:30 PM UTC

