Why do Whites Hate Talking about White Privilege?

 Imagine a conversation that always ends with you being the bad guy.

Always.

When I moved to Sudan, it was the first time I'd ever experienced racial privilege. I am in the ‘right’ race, I am of the ‘right’ complexion I am from the ‘right’ tribe and I have access to everything.

In a nutshell, this is essentially the same thing as ‘White Privilege’, which is identified exclusively to whites because they receive it everywhere in the world, not just in ‘their’ countries.

In reality, privilege is not about the colour of your skin – it’s more related to your people’s ability to market themselves in the best way possible - to as many parts of the world.  The British conquered the world we live in, they won wars against supposed ‘equals’ and then colonized the rest of the known world. They spread their people to lands as far as Australia, New Zealand, America and Canada and built some of the greatest civilizations in recorded history.

History, which they recorded.

Interestingly, colonizing makes the offspring of colonies think highly of you, even though essentially it is just a fancy word for being a bossy, powerful hegemonic immigrant. A person who moves from their land, occupies another with the agenda of taking over and inserting their way of governing (ironically this is what Britain and America fear ‘Muslims’ will do in the west, but they call them terrorists)

And if anyone other than them had written history that is exactly how they would have been remembered – terrorists. To make things a little clearer, I am pro British secular values and anti the current fundamental Sharia Law interpretations, but that doesn't give me the right to force my beliefs on to others because I think my beliefs are ‘superior’.

The colonization allowed these people to have access to unlimited world resources, knowledge, money and power and due to this, whites are able to project any image they like about themselves on a global scale. The entire world sees when whites do good deeds, when the world sees the white house, they don’t see barbaric white history whereby they forced slaves to build it – they see some of the finest white leaders in the world making some of the most powerful and influential decisions – because this is the narrative whites project, and everyone absorbs it.

What people don’t realize is that every race does this, every race talks about the good things in their countries and when a murderer or a thug is broadcast on the news, everyone knows its an exception – the majority of the race isn’t like this and there is always a bad apple. The difference between other races and the white race however – the rest of the world only watches their media, and white media – nothing else.

Arabs watch Arabic news, and White (Western) News

Asians watch Asian news, and White (Western) News

Africans watch African news, and White (Western) News

And Whites, watch White (Western) News

So when whites talk about a ‘black thug’ – all non blacks now see blacks as thugs. When whites talk about ‘extremist Muslims terrorists’ all non Muslims see muslims as terrorists and when whites talk about fanatic church killers – not all whites are seen as racial extremists because they will need to explain to the white public why this happened, so they dig deeper into the story (lone wolf, crazy, psychopath etc.)

The world understands other ethnicities from bias white institutions – institutions that were set by racists who made it impossible for non-whites to ever speak up or be seen as humans with rights.  However when things changed and tolerance became a sign of progression and not weakness – the structures of the media didn't. Non-racists whites and other ethnicities decided that pretending race doesn't exist was the best way to deal with race issues – but pretending not to see the race without amending the structures of the racist institutions doesn’t work, it in fact marginalizes more – just in a new justifiable way. It’s the reason you are so much more likely to get stopped if you’re black driving a fancy car than if you are of any other racial background (the structure of society teaches you implicitly that this achievement is not expected of blacks unless they are thieves or rappers)

The same thing goes in Sudan, I don’t have to worry about not being accepted for jobs because my name indicates my racial/religious origin, I don’t have to worry about renting houses/cars because people assume I will always pay (because of my racial privilege). I don’t have to worry about my children in school being marginalized not just by students but by teachers because they are from the ‘right’ race. I don’t have to concern myself about my ‘race’ being the reason for injustice happening to me – it's a hassle I don't have to deal with.

But what I do have to deal with, are those who hate me because of it. Marginalized minorities who have to work twice as hard to get half of what I have. They will never understand that I see this as unfair too – they will never believe that I see them as equal to me and they will never truly believe that I deserve all that I have… unless I stop enjoying the privileges my racist ancestors provided when they built the blueprint for the way we live today.

The problem with addressing white privilege is that the motive is unclear – do you want whites to suffer like everyone else? Or do you want the privilege too?

We need to take responsibility for the global lengths that  ‘white’ western news travels – and for this reason, western media needs to represent all aspects of everyone living in the west, and not just the whites in the west.

Outside of Britain people find it difficult to accept that you can be anything other than white and British – this needs to change. Everyone deserves to be treated without suspicion, not just whites.  And in order to do this, minorities need to stop assuming that whites who enjoy privilege and hate talking about it are doing so because they think they deserve it and you don’t – and whites need to stop assuming that anyone who talks about white privilege thinks they are racist – we know you are not, but your ancestors were, and they built the blueprint for the world we live in today!

The 'Migrant Crisis' - Why is it a Crisis?

The Refugee crisis in Syria and Afghanistan is now mainstream.

In other words, the refugees are trying to reach countries with a powerful media presence.

Countries in the West.

Refugees have been fleeing Syria for a long time now, with many now residing here in Sudan, nearly fully integrated – married to Sudanese and settled.  Of course the right wing Sudanese newspapers made a little frenzy about this, the same way they did/do with the South Sudanese, (even when we were one country) – right wing will always be right wing, and racists always target the weak to maintain their positions of power.

There is not much of a welfare system here, but the Syrians who moved here got something they didn’t get in Syria – safety. Most of the Syrian refugees I’ve come across that came to Sudan now own businesses running accessory shops or restaurants…  They were clearly doing well in Syria, before the war. 

The war that claimed 250,000 lives and left half of the pre-war population displaced and fleeing.

It was absolutely not the choice of the Syrian people to be in this situation, the same way that it was not the choice of Iraqi’s or Afghans – or if we scratch a little further in history the displaced millions after World War II. This is why they are refugees and not migrants.

Many people ask – why don't they go to Lebanon or Turkey or countries closer to them? (The underlying assumption being that they want Europe because they are lazy ‘cockroaches’ who want to benefit from welfare they don’t deserve)

The short answer is they did, many of them are there – however outside of your own country you are always treated as a second class citizen, and Europe is much more subtle in its discrimination than the Middle East and North Africa and much more compassionate towards those in need. Compassion it can afford – take this example, when the bank crisis happened in the UK, The government gave the banks an amount that would total the GDP of Spain. That was just to bail out the banks. Although you may think that Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi-Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE are wealthy (rich with oil), the GDP of Spain is no where near the amount that these countries make – it exceeds them massively.

Europe is extremely wealthy, to the point where when you take the total income of the world – you can see that Europe and North America are the only two continents where the total world population is exceeded (disproportionally) by the wealth. Take a look at this graph.

This was in the year 2000, this year the UN published a report stating that the richest 1% of the world owns 40% of the world’s wealth.

In terms of wealth, we can absolutely afford to take in and help out these refugees and in terms of helping out – it is very unlikely that Europeans don’t want to help out.

I think the driving force behind most of the media’s frenzies is clear - the fear of lack of integration. 

The fear of investing in a foreign force that will later turn against you. We have seen in many European countries media stories about communities of people who simply refuse to integrate - but why is this? And is this as big a problem as we think it is?

TBC.