I had recently seen friends of mine post a graphic on their Facebooks that meant to address white privilege; which I assume is based on a tweet some half wit made. It goes something along the lines of, “No one is saying that just because you’re white you don’t have problems. We’re saying that you don’t have problems BECAUSE you’re white.” I’m sure some of you have seen these cute backpeddling quotes getting posted around.

No one is saying that just because I’m white I don’t have problems? Weird, because I remember being deep into some twitter conversing, talking about how when I was young I went to a predominantly black school and got beaten up all the time for being white. The response to that? “Oh, save me your white tears”. What brought along the dialog was reading tweets that discussed the inherently flawed idea that you can’t be racist towards white people.

“White tears” is a common theme with these extremists when it comes to white people who discuss their problems. You see it in their rhetoric all the time. So I guess because I don’t get harassed by police, and because my family didn’t endure slavery, or suffer from the effects of gentrification, all of a sudden I don’t have Type II Bi Polar Disorder (diagnosed by a real doctor, for all of you self diagnosed, phony assholes that think mental illness is cute), and that I didn’t grow up around meth addicts, and have to live in a house in the winter at times with no heat, having to boil pots of water in order to take a hot bath.

The truth of the matter is that pointing out white privilege has only 2 total intended outcomes, and the apply to different demographics. For white people, the people who seem to love to spew the white privilege rhetoric the most, it’s the new “I’m totally not racist”. It’s their way of playing the race tensions safely. That’s not to suggest they actually are racists deep down; but you sure won’t see these guilty white people giving up their jobs for a person of color. You won’t see them actively digging into finding out if their company is engaging in wage paygaps on the basis of race. You won’t see them helping out at a Boys and Girls Club in the fucking hood. It’s all talk as far as white people are concerned; if you see a white person shitting out the white privilege grief - chances are they’re really full of shit, and you could probably easily make them look like the frauds they are if you simply call them out.

The other means to create a further racial wedge, likely because their experiences made them convinced that white people have historically ruined everything in their paths. They want you to check your white privilege, but they don’t quite want to tell you what the fuck that even means, because they don’t know what it means. They honestly believe that in the 21st century, the us vs. them is still black and white, and not a matter of the rich, connected, and powerful, vs the poor, disenfranchised, weak. Now, they might tell you to use your privilege to help in the fight against racial injustice - but they don’t really tell you how to do that either, and again it’s because they don’t have any understanding of how things work in the real world.

The notion that we as white people cannot relate to the black struggle may all and well be true. Black people who struggle refuse to empathize with the idea that white people have no more pull in anything than they do. Do they think that if white people step up when a cop is about to beat a young black male, that they’ll all of a sudden stop? Do they believe that people legitimately give a shit about what we have to say because we’re white? That all of a sudden our protest means more? That our vote counts more? They forget that this country was bought and sold a long time ago. It’s a VIP club, and neither myself nor them will ever fucking be invited; because we don’t have the right name, our mom’s and dad’s weren’t from the right blood line, because we don’t have bank accounts with seven figures in them.

The thing is, I think deep down, they do realize this. They know that every average white person has no ability to do a fucking thing more to help their plight outside of the simple strength in numbers, which has nothing to do with our DNA. But it’s not about that. It’s about blaming someone, and jacking a clever philosophy as a means to do so, while still sounding PC, and not hateful. But I’m a big believer in context. As innocent as the whole “white privilege” term means to come across, there’s literally nothing you can do with it. The whole idea is to erase the rest of your identity, and anyone tells you otherwise is a fucking liar. Because the moment you talk about the problems you do have, that they might not have, you get told to fuck off with your white tears. Your problems are insignificant. Hey, put your problems aside and use your whiteness to do something for people who aren’t white. Because that’s a thing you can do. If you write to congress and send them a piece of which you skinned yourself as proof of your white brotherhood, surely they’ll listen to you and pass prison reform, end mass incarceration, and end racial profiling. Because that’s how it works!

The irony, I suppose, is that I’m pretty vocally for civil rights, and ending various injustices. And nothing this ultra left wing PC manufactured outrage culture does is going to change that for me. But don’t sit here and dismiss my own hardships, throw me into a demographic where I’m only considered by my skin color, then tell me that just because you’re doing so doesn’t mean you’re saying you don’t think I have own problems I have to deal with, concluding by telling me to feed you my white tears when I explain my problems to you. Circular logic doesn’t suit anyone.