Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
I get it now. I understand. It’s hard to change a lifetime of thinking one way, the wrong way, but I get it now.<\/p>\n
I hope my children do worse than I. I hope their prospects are dimmer, their fortunes poorer, their deaths early.<\/p>\n
You see, I once believed that by staying in school to get an education, working hard in my job, spending frugally and investing wisely, that I was making a better life for myself and my family. But now that I’m woke, I see that I never earned anything, I didn’t build my career, it was all handed to me because my parents weren’t divorced and my Mother read to me.<\/p>\n
I have White Privilege.<\/p>\n
Oh, sure, I saw the brown, black, red and yellow kids outside the razor wire, watching us White kids go to the school where they were denied admittance. I saw them sitting against the wall of the supermarket, their bellies distended, flies buzzing around their heads, because they life in a food desert. I thought that was the natural and inevitable consequence of their parents’ cultural choices. I thought White culture was better at protecting women and children while building and conserving wealth.<\/p>\n
But I understand things now and I’m not going to let my children make the same mistakes that I made. I’m pulling them out of STEM school and getting them hooked on drugs to ensure they never go back. I’m squandering my savings on a tricked-out Yukon with 20-inch Spreewells. I’m quitting my job and committing a few felonies, to ensure I can’t get another. When my kids’ lives are as bad as the kids in the lowest strata of society, then things will be fair.<\/p>\n
I know they’ll thank me someday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Equality!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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