After being in the first generation in my family to graduate college, and after paying for the entirety of my college education by working, and after graduating having been offered an interview by the only all black newspaper in the Twin Cities—until I showed up for said interview being an unexpected color, and having worked in situations where I was in the minority in multiple ways and sometimes treated very badly by people who said they were being treated unfairly; or by ultra-liberal people who practiced their own reverse brand of racism, I have naturally developed a skepticism for people who try to turn every issue, into a racial disparity issue.
So if you really and truly believe that you succeeded because of a thing called "white privilege," and that you owe everything to an unfair system, then yes, I agree with you that you should give your house and your car to someone who is poor.
Personally, after working to pay for my education that I worked hard to study for, and then working hard to move into a field called Information Technology, that I was not directly educated for—so I had to work extra hard to learn about it and become valuable in the that field, and then I kept moving up into better and higher paying jobs, I actually think that I deserve to keep the things that I worked hard my whole life for.
And if I am ever in a position to hire someone for a job that I am responsible to fill, I will feel it necessary to hire the best, most qualified person for that job no matter what demographic group that they represent. So I sure hope that if that day comes, the people who interview (with me) have done their best because I don't want anyone to tell me that race played a role in the process—because seriously, why would I not hire the best qualified person?
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