“Stop Conflating Racism with White Privilege”

Though I don’t like Google, I use Google Translate to listen to a post titled, Stop Calling It White Privilege” by Michelle Elizabeth. I have not written here in a long time, and that was due to it being easier to speak. I’m not going to rip everything Michelle Elizabeth had to say, because while she makes many uncontroversial points, she, like many, make the egregious mistake of conflating two things: Racism and White Privilege. I can tell she is one who has not watched Independent Media. If she had, she would know the differences. For her, and anyone else out there reading/listening to this, you must understand there is a vast and yet interconnected difference between the two.

When it comes to racism, it is simple, finite and undeniable. Racism, in its most simple form regards one people of a “color” feeling superior to another. This mindset causes that people of that color to look down at others whom are not of that color. That’s the basic and simplest definition and explanation of racism there is. What comes from racism is holding on to that belief as its’ own religion. People must create the “why” of their superiority, and logic dictates that one cannot claim superiority without defining the inferiority; one massively thick and long line in the sand. With racism, that group must build their culture in ways that gives them the ability to look down at “The…