1 00:00:02,389 --> 00:00:06,430 “Woke” white people, I’d like to ask you a favor: 2 00:00:06,430 --> 00:00:09,440 Please stop asking for forgiveness for your “white privilege.” 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:15,180 You’re not fooling anybody. You’re not helping black people—or any other minority. 4 00:00:15,180 --> 00:00:20,640 And your public confessions don’t make you look virtuous. They make you look disingenuous, 5 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,800 which is a really nice way of saying fake, phony, and fraudulent. 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:30,100 For starters, what is “white privilege” anyway? Because you were born with white skin, 7 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:32,880 you have all these advantages that I don’t have? 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,680 Like what?  Like, you can get a mortgage loan that I can’t get? 9 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:43,520 Hmm. I got a loan—at a great rate, by the way—and I got the house. 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,780 Why would a banker not give a loan to someone who met the loan requirements? 11 00:00:47,780 --> 00:00:52,280 He doesn’t want to make money? I’ve never heard of such a banker. 12 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:57,400 Or, how about this: You can enter a store and not be looked upon with suspicion, 13 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:03,140 but I—a black person—cannot. Except...that has never happened to me. 14 00:01:03,140 --> 00:01:07,420 But if I was a young dude with my pants hanging down to my butt, I could understand why a 15 00:01:07,420 --> 00:01:13,380 store owner would be concerned. I used to be a cop. Believe me, I understand. If I owned 16 00:01:13,380 --> 00:01:19,380 the store, I’d be tracking that kid, too—whether he was black, white, or anything else. 17 00:01:19,380 --> 00:01:24,980 Or, what if I had a store that had a history of being shoplifted by young black women, 18 00:01:24,980 --> 00:01:31,300 and a young black woman with a bad attitude walked in. Would I be suspicious? Yeah, I would. 19 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:36,040 Who wouldn’t?  I call that common sense, not bigotry. 20 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:41,079 But there’s another way of looking at this: In many ways, in today’s America, blacks 21 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:46,770 have more privilege than whites. It’s been my experience that whites bend over backwards 22 00:01:46,770 --> 00:01:51,740 to give blacks every possible advantage. If two people are equally qualified for a 23 00:01:51,740 --> 00:01:56,640 job, the black person will usually get it. Big companies and prestigious universities fall 24 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,840 all over one another trying to sign up talented black people. 25 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,880 If you deny this, you are denying reality.  Which is what the person who dreamed up this 26 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:11,310 whole thing did—a professor of women’s studies at Wellesley College by the name of 27 00:02:11,310 --> 00:02:18,470 Peggy McIntosh. She wrote an article in 1988 about all the “white privilege” she thought 28 00:02:18,470 --> 00:02:24,670 she had. She listed 46, including this one: “I can choose…bandages in ‘flesh’ 29 00:02:24,670 --> 00:02:31,550 color and have them more or less match my skin.” Wow, that’s some kind of privilege! 30 00:02:31,550 --> 00:02:36,190 Soon others took up the cause. Today, these so-called progressives dominate 31 00:02:36,190 --> 00:02:41,480 our colleges and universities, imposing this absurd notion of white privilege on their 32 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:46,380 students. That’s too bad. Because it does nothing good for white students. And it does 33 00:02:46,390 --> 00:02:51,230 nothing good for black students. But of the two, ironically, the white students get the 34 00:02:51,230 --> 00:02:54,620 better of the deal.  Let me explain: 35 00:02:54,620 --> 00:03:00,140 To acknowledge your white privilege is supposed to make you feel bad. Only it doesn’t. It 36 00:03:00,140 --> 00:03:05,320 makes you feel good because by acknowledging your white privilege, you’re declaring yourself 37 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:11,280 to be enlightened. And as a virtue-bonus, it also makes you a better person than those 38 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:16,400 whites who don’t acknowledge their privilege.  White privilege, which is supposed to make 39 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:23,221 you feel bad, ends up making you feel good. Meanwhile, the real damage is to blacks. What 40 00:03:23,221 --> 00:03:27,983 makes whites feel good makes blacks angry. More than 50 years after the start of the 41 00:03:27,983 --> 00:03:34,180 Civil Rights movement, the message is: “You’re still oppressed.” How can this not create 42 00:03:34,180 --> 00:03:40,960 a victim mentality? And anyone—of any color—who sees himself as a victim gets angry. 43 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:46,440 Now, I wouldn’t deny for a second that there are privileges in life. They’re all over the place. 44 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,451 There’s two-parent family privilege (that’s huge); there’s being lucky to 45 00:03:50,460 --> 00:03:56,020 be born in America privilege; there’s good gene privilege. But white privilege? 46 00:03:56,020 --> 00:04:01,200 Doesn’t it depend on the person? Let’s take this, for example: A black lawyer 47 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:07,100 and his wife have a baby. And a meth addict, single white woman has a baby. 48 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:13,519 Which kid has privilege? The white one? Because he’s white? Come on now. 49 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:20,940 And here’s the kicker: Even if it were true—all those claims about white privilege, so what? 50 00:04:20,940 --> 00:04:26,510 Would it change a single thing I did? If white people apologize for being white, is that 51 00:04:26,510 --> 00:04:32,700 supposed to help me? In what way? So, let’s be real: White privilege is an 52 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:36,400 attempt by the left to divide Americans by race. 53 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:43,580 It’s all theory and all nonsense. If you want to fall for it, go ahead—it’s a free country. 54 00:04:43,580 --> 00:04:47,660 But don’t try to sell it to me.  I’m an American who deals with my fellow 55 00:04:47,660 --> 00:04:53,300 Americans one-on-one.  Try it. It works. 56 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:56,120 I’m Brandon Tatum for Prager University.