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That means white people giving  up their privileged bubbles, right?[/quote]
You mean the poor white kid, sleeping on the sofa in the living room because his parents couldn't afford a 2-bedroom apartment, and studying diligently for As while his less motivated and less intelligent classmates hung on out street corner, and knowing that his only chance to attain a middle-class life would be if he got an academic scholarship to college, and having to work part-time during the school year to help bring in money, should get out of his privileged bubble?

Yeah, right.
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^Definition of a white person who doesn't understand what "white privilege" means.

-signed an Asian American who grew up poor and lived in a filthy tiny 1 br apt as a child of a family of 5
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Yeah? You want more details? How about a fourth-floor tenement walk-up, watered down soup for dinner, the "steam" turned on only for four hours a day so the family froze the rest of the day (and night), and hand-me:down clothes from cousins. That is not white privilege.

(And as far as a filthy apartment, why didn't your family do better keeping it clean? My family was dirt-poor but did the best they could to keep it clean.)
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