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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am white and I got nothing from my parents and grew up with a single (divorced) mom. The only reason I have a nice lifestyle now, despite going to college (loans), is because[b] I married well[/b]. [/quote]

Ummm...you realize that the bolded part undercuts the first part? You may have not had inter-generational wealth but you married someone who did.  And that relative wealth will pass to your children.  That's one of the points of the article. [/quote]

Right, however the person I married is a 1st generation immigrant that came from nothing. He isn't black but he still was highly disadvantaged and did well for himself. [/quote]

I am a 1%er who is the first generation to go to college (lower class) married to a first generation to go to college (lower middle class). We benefited from no inter generational wealth transfer. In fact, the wealth transfer has been reverse.[/quote]

And you will end up transferring a ton of wealth to your kids.[/quote].

So? I have earned it.  [/quote]

But they didn't, and that is the issue of intergenerational wealth.[/quote]

There is no "issue" of generational wealth except resentment and envy. I came from nothing and made something of myself. Others can do the same and their children can benefit.  Envy and resentment...[/quote]

No envy here.  I am doing well for myself too.  But as a minority who made it, I do appreciate certain things about my journey that others did not endure.

But consider this - many AAs and Hispanics work hard and try to make something of themselves.  The advantages you had that are the essences of White privilege are that 1) You worked hard and you did not have to worry that the color of your skin would give someone cause to undermine your hard work  (2 you could be reasonably confident that with hard work and a few breaks, you would be successful and 3) you did not have to assimilate culturally to be succesful.

Seriously, I applaud you for your hard work and success.  But it is naive to think that everyone has the same opportunity for success that you did.

[/quote]. You have no freaking  idea what  I had to overcome. Coming where I started I had NO reasonable idea much less confidence that I could be successful.  Just stop with the stereotyping.[/quote]

Don't tell me to stop stereotyping until you tell the people earlier in the thread to stop doing it.  It does not feel good to be on the wrong end of stereotyping does it?  To have someone ignore your personal struggle and acheivements and have you lumped in with everyone else?  Kinda sucks, doesn't it?[/quote]

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