Perhaps they came from a household that was openly racist? Maybe these white people grew up believing that they were better than everyone else. Now they're grown up and they realize it's not true.
Maybe they did live in a white bubble, didn't personally know any one who wasn't white, and the only thing they knew of minorities was what they saw on the nightly news and heard their racist family members saying...so they stereotyped minorities as all being one and the same based on crime stories of a few. So, the white privilege narrative works on them because they are genuinely convicted over their own sin of racism; theres some truth to it for them, so they'll take any ideology that runs alongside it...this is all hypothetical ,mind you....just trying to make sense of how the white privilege narrative has gained traction.
If this is you and you want to fess up and relieve yourself the guilt of unmerited success in life or racist views you or your family have held, I can totally respect that, I applaud it actually...if you were racist and you see the error of it and repent of it...bravo friend, seriously!
This is where the rub starts---If I think about a person growing up in a bubble, who has stereotyped people by their skin colors...I can see you think you must attribute your current feelings and life experience with anyone that has the same skin color as you. Just like you used to stereotype minorities based on the news of some....NOW you're stuck in that same habit, except you're stereotyping all white people based on your lived experience and guilt.
Maybe its worth pointing out?....you're still stereotyping people based on their skin color...that's still wrong...conviction over personal sin is not wrong though. Again, openly for your genuine repentance.
Get schooled up on some MLK..."I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Heed those words...CONTENT OF CHARACTER, NOT SKIN. STOP STEROTYPING PEEPS BASED ON THEIR GOD GIVEN SKIN COLORS! We're not all the same....I mean, we all have different sin issues we're dealing with, but we don't all sin the same. Everyone that has your skin color is not you. Everyone that doesn't have your skin color, also not all exactly the same as one another. There is ample diversity in people...diversity that is more than skin deep.



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