By Pete Papaherakles
“White privilege” is a term heard often lately, as an underhanded accusation against whites. It refers to a theoretical set of privileges that whites benefit from beyond those experienced by blacks and other minorities in the community, workplace or schools. Although whites might not even be aware of these supposed advantages, they somehow enjoy unfair benefits that presumably need to be addressed and eliminated in order to really level the playing field and achieve true racial equality.
The term “white privilege” was coined by Theodore W. Allen during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Its roots derive from critical race theory, an offshoot of the Frankfurt School’s critical theory, a Marxist tactic by which criticism is used as a weapon to take down the establishment’s power structure.
On December 24, this reporter interviewed professor Kevin MacDonald on his thoughts about the validity of white privilege.
“There is no such thing,” he said. “It’s a total fabrication put out there just as a way to further affirmative action programs.”
MacDonald, a professor at Caltech, has written several articles on this issue including a review of an article by Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, entitled “The Myth of American Meritocracy: How corrupt are Ivy League admissions?”
Asked about whether this notion applies to employment opportunities, Dr. MacDonald explained: “These types of accusations are a throwback to pre-civil rights conditions more than half a century ago. Today, the opposite is actually happening. Blacks are being hired at jobs though they are less qualified than whites, due to affirmative action.”
Almost all of the largest Fortune 500 corporations have affirmative action and diversity programs that discriminate against white people in hiring. They also have programs of discrimination that favor non-whites in promotions and advancements. But blacks are often overrepresented at a rate much higher than the 13% of the population they comprise in the U.S.
On March 12, 2012, The Washington Times ran an expose on the racial makeup of the capital’s more than 3,000 public transportation bus and rail drivers for northern Virginia, D.C. and Maryland.
“Ninety-seven percent of the bus and train operators at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority [Metro] are black,” wrote The Times, although blacks comprise only 28% of D.C.’s metropolitan area.
Citing several examples of discrimination, the article noted: “a white male engineer near completion of a Ph.D. was passed over for a management position in favor of a black man who was barely literate. . . . In typical examples, court and Metro records show, a black man who spent eight years in prison for dealing PCP was promoted to a high level management position soon after his release, and whites in the same positions as blacks with far less seniority are inexplicably paid less.”
And these are not low paying jobs, explained The Times. “The average Metro worker had a $60,000 salary, which rises to $69,000 including overtime. That is more than 71% of area residents who had an income in 2010, including 62% of whites, census records show.”
Blacks are also favored over whites in the 11 million government jobs including he U.S. Post Office, which has been called “a work program for blacks.” They make up over 20% of postal employees and the agency’s inefficiency is leading it to bankruptcy as FedEx and UPS are now dominating the parcel business.
Incredibly, it’s estimated blacks make up almost 80% of mailmen in Chicago, according to a statement from Mack Julion, president of the Chicago branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
MacDonald explained that the same reverse discrimination is happening with college admissions throughout the country.
“It is well documented that blacks are admitted even to Ivy League universities such as Harvard, with much lower SAT scores than whites,” he said.
The primary admission test today is called the Scholastic Assessment Test, or SAT. The typical score for students entering the nation’s most select colleges such as Harvard, Princeton and CalTech is 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT.
Of the 153,132 blacks who took the SAT in 2005 in the entire country, only 244 of them scored 750 or above on the math section and 363 scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test. Yet in 2011, Harvard admitted 255 blacks as freshmen, 11.8% of a total of 2,158 new students that year.
Meanwhile, whites, who make up 65% of the United States population and tested on average 310 points higher than blacks on their SAT scores, only made up 44% of the admissions. And it gets worse. Of that 44%, 26% percent were Jewish, leaving gentile whites of European ancestry with only 18% representation.
Whites of European descent, whose ancestors actually built Harvard as well as the U.S., only get an 18% representation at their nation’s oldest and most prestigious university, hardly a sign of white privilege. Blacks, on the other hand, who mostly don’t even qualify for enrollment, get almost a 12% representation even though there are five times as many whites in the country. The fact that Jewish students are over represented 14 times more than their 1.8% population share is very telling. This ratio also applies to the faculty and administration. Larry Summers, a Jew, was Harvard’s president between 2001 and 2006. Harvard is not the exception in these demographics, but more or less the rule with most Ivy League colleges.
“White privilege” is nothing more than a term used to beat whites over the head with white guilt in order to take away what little power they have left.
“When White Americans of the future—quite possibly the very near future—discover the world they have lost and the reasons they lost that world, the results may well be cataclysmic,” warned MacDonald.
Pete Papaherakles is a writer and political cartoonist for AFP and is also AFP’s outreach director. Pete is interested in getting AFP writers and editors on the podium at patriotic events. Call him at 202-544-5977 if you know of an event you think AFP should attend.
It is truly and utterly beyond ridiculous how this corrupt system has failed in keeping the peace, they would much rather spread racial unrest like never seen before. Am I the only one that can see what’s actually happening? They are destroying America from the inside out and also hiring groups like BLM and antifa to go out causing problems. Then you have the Obama, clinton, scandals amongst God knows how many more. What would you consider most important, the well being of yourself, your family and friends, your great country, the sacrifices many brave men have for your freedom, I feel all of the above are much more important than the pride of a few groups of radical racists. Open your eyes to the surrounding and emerging chaos spreading like fire. I firmly believe in treating people the way you wish to be treated. I promise if everyone were to partake in that lifestyle that most or all of the problems would stop. But there will always be the greedy unsatisfied people who will never change. It’s hard to fathom how this is happening. I do not have the words to explain at the moment but am researching trying to figure it out. I have a terribly strong new intuition opening up and see what most others can’t see. I have the master number, life number 11 which has extraordinary intuition, still checking into all of that. It’s a lil complex. But I know that I must express my anger about how our system has let and continues to let everything out of whack. Just to keep their greedy pockets lined. We the people have the God given right to alter or abolish government if our best interests aren’t being considered. I’d say it’s far past time for us to unite against this threat and completely destroy them. Before it’s too late.
Weve been maliciously and deliberately lied to using sophisticated reverse psych snd gaslighting. Whites are the MINORITY on this planet!
White people need leaders to organize and educate the American people. In this day and age blacks use the phrase black lives matter as a catch 22 to riot, steal and even kill. Clueless white people march in the streets and show support for this ridiculous cause. Obviously they were never forced to travel thru a predominately black neighborhood, and were a victim of black violence. I lived in Chicago, black people have ruined the city. They kill you and they kill each other. They have no respect for another human being including another black person. White people are definitely the minority and are being beaten down at an alarming rate. I see it, you see it. I now live in central Missouri, a small town, and not one black person. I feel safe, my kids are safe, and white people are only discriminated against thru government policy. By the time white people stand up for their race, it may be to late.
Your all right. It is going on. It’s a plan to get rid of us without taking us out to the back and shooting us.
To get a better idea of this. There is some old footage of what happened just after WW2 was finished. The so called allies, including good American boys were raping german women and people from all the sides of the GOOD allies, were killing German citizens on the road. You never hear about this though right. It was wrong what the Nazi’s did sure, but it’s still wrong what these supposedly good guys did too.
It’s the same thing now, accept towards white people. If not outright physically assaulting people, they are keeping white people, especially white men from good jobs, so that besides hurting us financially, they make us look like trash to white women who might have kids with us.
You can’t fight this though the way I know some of you guys want to. We DO NOT HAVE THE NUMBERS. We are also living under a cultural paradigm that states Whites living today deserve all this shit, because of really what a handful of bad men did 150 200 maybe 400 years ago.
The only real way to fight this is to have our own country which I describe how it happens somewhat in my short novella called “Beginning”.
If anyone wants to help me publish this work, email me at [email protected].
Let me try to say this please. If we lash out physically we will be seen as the bad guys here. We can’t do that, despite this unwarranted hate towards our race.
We have to fight politically, not just Donald Trump. He was just the start to this. Again please email me, I am desperate to get my work published and I will give a percentage of all profits to those who do.
Thank you very much for your time.
Some of your post sounds as though you can use “critical thinkin,” the rest of it sounds as though you “can’t think.”
Yo, Alex, kiss my a$$! We shall see if the day of the “white man” is over.
Asked about whether this notion applies to employment opportunities, Dr. MacDonald explained: “These types of accusations are a throwback to pre-civil rights conditions more than half a century ago. Today, the opposite is actually happening. Blacks are being hired at jobs though they are less qualified than whites, due to affirmative action.”
First Unz is a hack:
Janet Mertz’s response to “The Myth of American Meritocracy”
Second he doesn’t know history:
How Obama plays upon white guilt—Hilary and the liberals are exploiting it as well—conservatives like Shelby Steele confirm it
“It is well documented that blacks are admitted even to Ivy League universities such as Harvard, with much lower SAT scores than whites,” he said.
The primary admission test today is called the Scholastic Assessment Test, or SAT. The typical score for students entering the nation’s most select colleges such as Harvard, Princeton and CalTech is 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT. Because they recognize it’s racist?:
The SAT and Admission: Racial Bias and Economic Inequality
“Of the 153,132 blacks who took the SAT in 2005 in the entire country, only 244 of them scored 750 or above on the math section and 363 scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test. Yet in 2011, Harvard admitted 255 blacks as freshmen, 11.8% of a total of 2,158 new students that year.”
Here’s what happened when these colleges ditched SAT scores
CMV: America isn’t institutionally racist but is rather recovering from a system that was.
“Incredibly, it’s estimated blacks make up almost 80% of mailmen in Chicago, according to a statement from Mack Julion, president of the Chicago branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers.” Um, doesn’t Chicago have was high black majority? Nice….
African-Americans represent 13.1% of the U.S. population and 11.6% of the labor force, according to a 2012 U.S. Department of Labor report. Nearly one in five African-American workers hold government jobs such as mail clerks, firefighters and teachers, the report said.
So the blacks are properly represented!
What I believe now is that we have created a Black culture of spoiled, self-entitled, racists with a victim mentality fostered by cynical liberal whites. I am expected to be guilty for things I have never done in the face of people who have never had those things done to them. The only cotton they ever saw was in their clothing. Now they murder one another and we are to blame. Now I am afraid to enter their neighborhoods. In my lifetime I, and two of my sons, have been mugged and attacked by the oppressed Black males of the city.
After the events of the last two years I have concluded that Blacks will never be happy or content or desire to be part of society. A Black president was elected and instead of it being seen as progress he said that there was still so much more to be done. Race relations have been set back by a generation thanks to him. Now I’m told that I cannot honor my fellow Americans that fought and died for their freedom as citizens of states that were in a union…not a forced marriage. Slavery was the catalyst for the Civil war and not the cause that was fought for by either side. I’m called a racist now just because I’m white and happen to disagree with some platforms of the so called civil rights leadership (the false “Reverends” etc). Race is an industry that thrives on taking everything from me, from tax dollars to dignity. I just bought my first Confederate flag. I bought it as a symbol that I refuse to be told what to think by anyone and I refuse to be marginalized because 13% of the population think they have a grudge. I refuse to be told what symbols mean to a group of opportunistic race-baiters.
I have come to the conclusion that both the White and black citizens of this country were better off before desegregation. Everyone was safer and happier when Whites wouldn’t go into Black communities for fear of assault and Blacks would stay out of White communities for the same reason. The days of stark lines defining permissible conduct were safer and more constructive for everyone.
I also believe that Blacks are incapable of doing what is required to live in civilized society. Until that changes, they must be excluded from it. We experimented with Liberia and Sierra Leone and look what they’ve done to these countries that were established by freed slaves. It mattered very little that they had a foundation of education, agriculture, sciences and democracy…they devolved to the lowest common denominator.
Welfare must be limited to the support of one child. Welfare must be based on willingness and ability to work.
Laws must be enforced without fear of being accused of racism. Therefore, only Blacks should police Black neighborhoods. Schools must be desegregated only by honest demographics and there should be no more Black privilege allowing them to assault White people without charges of hate crimes. hate crimes, like racism work both ways.
I’m finished being understanding and sensitive. I’ve had enough and I refuse to care if someone calls me a racist; in fact I will embrace the label and in that way take away the left’s most powerful weapon…name calling. It needs to be a new era of understanding between races…no ‘conversations,’ and if there are, it needs to be one way. You obey the law and stay where you live. You do what you see successful people do and you’ll be fine, but no more free rides and no more White guilt.
It did take another 100 years for true equality to come about, but it also took the support of many White Americans to make it law. They are conveniently forgotten during Black history month.
Race is a myth anyway; nearly every Black person in America has at least 1/4 white blood in them. Whites are not different, so the idea that we are separated by color is a myth perpetuated by Marxist/Socialists to keep us at odds with each other while the elites bleed us dry and steal the fruits of all our labor, regardless of color.
I will fight inequality regardless of who are the victim; that is what I believe the American way to be.
They have won and will continue to win because of our own stupidity.
My hours were reduced at work to 2-3 days (only place to work in the town I live). Some were getting their kids into college on the taxpayers money; I didn’t have a chance to get my son in as he was white and they didn’t have any way of allowing that. After I said you just allowed that kid in, she said well he is black and they get preference. I said that is total B.S. and she said, well you are white so go get your rich family to pay for him.
End of conversation as I did not know what to say or what the he*l I could do when the government tells you straight to your face to STFU because you are white and have no rights.
Glad I found this website. I’m looking for those ready to take action.
The school’s principal actually had the nerve to tell me and my child that favoritism is a far cry from racism when I called her out for being racist. After several more incidences, many of which were provoked by the principal and teachers, we went to the school district administration office to file a grievance. Once inside the administration office we were shocked to find that there was not even a single white employee there, so we had to file the grievance with a black women, which as expected, was pointless. This awful time in my children’s lives will never be forgotten; they are scarred for life. We have finally managed to move, but there are a few white children still attending those schools and they are not safe. The school district has a school called Africentric that is for black children only, but it seems the school district employees are intentionally running white children out of the schools by using tactics like stiffer punishments for white children, embarrassing them in front of other students, failure to intervene when a white child is bullied right in front of them, then later twist the facts making everything the white children’s fault. I’ve searched for an attorney in hopes of shedding some light on how white children are being targeted by blacks in these schools, but apparently white children are not as important as black children or the white attorneys and media I’ve contacted are cowards. Had a fraction of this abuse happened to a black child, countless attorneys would have been begging to help. The public needs to know the truth!!!!!!
Us white people need to pull our heads out of our asses and realize what’s going on here! It’s time for us to push back, to make these degenerate porch monkeys afraid to tread on us! Who gives a shit about being labeled “racist”? Stand up for your white heritage and take pride in your superiority.
Proud to be a white boy, your speaker, Carl.
Why is it that when colored people attack white Americans it is not news-worthy, but when a white American attacks a colored person it makes “National News” in a matter of a few hours and the colored community wants to riot and tear up what we have worked so hard to build and the taxpayers are left with the bill to rebuild?
Why is there not “Equal Rights” for White Americans, the minority???