08-23-2017, 12:08 PM
(08-19-2017, 12:19 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: You can never know how good I got it. A white person talking about their "privilege"?I can see from your comments in the thread you have a lot of ideas on this topic, but I struggle to glean anything about them from the poem. If I were you I would try to expand on this, it could be interesting. Maybe write a short essay on the topic and then hack it down into a poem.
Kill or be killed.
That is all. I don't really get these last two lines.
I'm from Canada, so I have a little distance from all this Charlottesville stuff.
In my opinion, "privilege" has more to do with class/wealth than race. A black person born to wealthy parents probably has more "privilege" than a white person born to poor parents. Of course, racism exists and is no good. I'm also of Italian descent (and Scottish & Polish). My Italian grandpa (NoNo) moved to Canada as a kid in the 1930's, and certainly had a tough time during WWII and after. I personally don't identify with any real group of "white people", nor do most white people I know, but that doesn't mean that looking "white" doesn't have its subtle advantages.