All posts tagged "White Privilege"

A pair of Black bikers in Michigan say they were chased down and harassed by a woman who proclaimed she had "white privilege," The Daily Beast reported on Friday.

According to Muskegon residents Darius Bankhead Sr. and James Grisham, they were riding their motorcycles to Grand Haven for the Coast Guard Festival, when a woman in a Jeep started tailing them, honking aggressively and flipping them off. Then, when they pulled into a parking lot to try to get a picture of her license plate, she followed them, parked in a handicapped spot, then got in their faces and started yelling.

Video footage of the incident recorded by Bankhead shows Grisham saying they're from Muskegon and telling her they've already called the police, to which she responded in a slurred voice, “F**k the police. No, you guys are f**ked up. You guys think you can ride your big ol’ bikes."...

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly expressed skepticism on Wednesday over the idea of white privilege, saying his upbringing and his inability to tan disqualified him from having it.

In light of ABLC's move to Raw Story, I decided to re-up a couple of posts for our new readers. This is the first of those posts.

"They said, if you was white, you'd be alright, If you was brown, stick around, But as you is black, oh brother, Get back, get back, get back."

I could toss off some wry comment about this ridiculous comment by Chris Matthews, but the fact that he had no problem stating this on the air raises an interesting question -- what is he really saying with a statement like that?

Tim Wise's bio lets you know he's in a unique position to lay this out on the line. He is the director of the Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE) in Nashville, Tennessee.