{"id":516,"date":"2008-09-24T01:44:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T05:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2008-09-27T02:28:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T06:28:22","slug":"all-about-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/all-about-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"All About,&#8230; Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this certainly was an interesting day.  Because of server issues, I spent a big part of the day reviewing many blogs, just to see what was out on the blogosphere that might interest readers of my blog.  <\/p>\n<p>I came across this post on the Electronic Village blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicvillage.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/this-week-in-blackness-about-white.html\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"red\"><b>This Week In Blackness<\/b><\/font><\/a> that caught my attention, mainly because of the video that I'm going to share below.  The person in the video is a comedian named Elon James White, who supposedly has a series of videos on the topic of \"<font color=\"navy\"><b>White Privilege<\/b><\/font>.  <\/p>\n<p>Personally, though it's done in a comedic tone, I feel it's pretty important stuff because I've heard some of the same sort of things he talks about, such as this impression that, because Barack Obama actually has a chance to become president this year, that racism is dead in America.  Since I don't feel like quoting statistics to try to prove that comment isn't close to being correct, instead I'll just share this video, which has a little bit of bad language, but very little:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1wQwq7Fvs2s&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1wQwq7Fvs2s&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this certainly was an interesting day. Because of server issues, I spent a big part of the day reviewing many blogs, just to see what was out on the blogosphere that might interest readers of my blog. I came across this post on the Electronic Village blog called This Week In Blackness that caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}