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Should I be concerned about proving anything to you or anyone else?  I'm not.

However, I do recognize that if people don't believe me it's most likely because they don't want to believe me.  A successful Black woman who has benefited from AA who embraces that fact.  You want me to feel ashamed, and I don't.  It also bothers you that I enjoy more material success than most of you posting here.  If my arrogance offends you...too bad.    [/quote]

I think people have hard time understanding how you can live yourself knowing you didn't get where you are by your own merit.

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Actually, I'm here primarily because of my merit.  Despite the Middle Passage, brutal enslavement/stolen labor, Jim Crow and the separate but VERY unequal opportunities my family/ancestors have dealt with for centuries.  Everything I have has been earned (by me or my ancestors) whether you want to acknowledge it or not.  I have achieved conventional success (academic, career and familial) that most people in this country can only dream about, and I do not have any of the unearned benefits of white privilege.

You and your ancestors endured none of the aforementioned atrocities.  So a better question is:  How can you live with yourself knowing you didn't get where you are by your own merit?
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