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Enough About White Privilege
When are we going to talk about White Entitlement?
Back when I was your age (2004 or 2005, I guess?) there was a lot you kids take for granted which either came at a cost, or simply didn’t exist yet. My brother and I spent a good bit of our childhood seethingly envious of the other kids in our Sunday school classes — the only kids we really socialized with — because what we saw as insane luxuries seemed to be the norm for them.
A personal computer and laptop for each child. Big screen TVs. In-ground pools with a high-dive. Two new cars in a two-door garage. Subscriptions to teen magazines. Every American Girl doll and Hot Wheels car, with all the accessories, lined up on tidy shelves. Airplane travel to Disney World twice a year. Shopping sprees from the Limited Too catalog every Christmas.
And all of it just handed to them. If brother and I wanted to use the one computer in the house, we first had to earn it. Every chore completed properly and on time, every chapter of a book we read, every hour we spent doing something constructive, won 5 blessed minutes at a screen. And it capped at an hour per day. The privilege to play Flash games online came with all sorts of conditions…
