TO THE EDITOR:
Dear Ben Shapiro,
Your lecture mentions that the left are bringing up the false logic that there are things such as “white privilege.” You state that if a “Black person doesn’t succeed,” it is not because they are fighting against white privilege, but is their own fault. Well, Ben, I suggest that you take some sociology courses, that you read some history, and not old history, but history that has occurred in our country in the last 60 or more years.
Research has overwhelmingly shown that the cards are stacked against people of color in our country. Yes, some progress has been made but to blatantly fling out your logic that racism doesn’t exist and that any problems a person of color has in this country is not partly due to “white privilege” is just ignorant.
When a person looks at me, I would be assumed to be a person of color, my husband is Afro-American and my children people of color. I can state right now that I have been discriminated against and my husband has within his lifetime and the last 25 years.
You need to step outside of your conservative bubble and live in the shoes of a person of color for a couple of months...then get back with us. And by the way...if you don’t like people walking out on your lectures, instead of dissing years of research results and live testimonies to the fact that there is discrimination based on your warped reasoning, talk about fixing issues like discrimination in a productive manner.
Kathy D. Morgan
Chapel Hill
