@cathdad4 @FrHilderbrand TBH, I would have agreed with you a few years ago. I grew up with an alcoholic father who drank himself to death when I was 12. We had enough money and were better off than a lot, but lower-middle class. I, too, wanted to know the privilege I had.
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@cathdad4 @FrHilderbrand I married into a Mexican family that while my wife’s father made it out and did really well (proving my thought at the time), most of the rest still struggle a ton. We live in a nice neighborhood in liberal Austin.
@cathdad4 @FrHilderbrand People assume she’s the nanny when she would take the littlest kids on a walk. People still post on Nextdoor about the suspicious person walking in the alley (black neighbor walking to his garage). I’ve never had anyone question my intelligence as someone who struggled…
@cathdad4 @FrHilderbrand in college, taking eight years to get my BA since I had to work full time after a couple years (and finally processing my childhood teams). But, the black bschool professor that lives down the street from me? I’ve seen it.
What exact white privilege have I experienced?
@cathdad4 @FrHilderbrand I couldn’t point to a singular case (one traffic stop in HS not with) but that I’ve never once had to worry about my race when hearing and seeing these things in my family and with my friends have opened my eyes up enough to accept there are vastly different realities in the USA—
@cathdad4 @FrHilderbrand for people who don’t look like me. How to help Black, brown, Asian, etc with this? That’s a fine debate to have. Lots of well-meaning attempts are also problematic, but a major step is realizing that there are massive realities in the country on the aggregate and open to convo.
@cathdad4 @FrHilderbrand (I don’t know exactly what lower middle class actually means, but I use it as “generally we always had housing, food, and the necessities of life, never on public assistance, but didn’t have much else”. The few months after Dad died exempted.
@cathdad4 @FrHilderbrand (NB I usually use Android and wrote wrote this one an iPad. Whoa, no wonder my iPhone friends have so many autocorrect fails. This is horrible. Ha! “Teams” trauma, “not with” notwithstanding, etc. LMK is any are too bad to follow my point. Yikes. )