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I was born With white privilege; Irish ethnicity at that. Remember their holocausts! Occupied, evicted, brutalized, lynched, starved, hedge-scbooled, and, Refugeed on their own land, And on and on, and so on For seven hundred years. These things were before my time, But not my Granda's. It's so very true,  I was born with white privilege, But not with white entitlement.
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Jun 5, 2020
Jun 5, 2020 at 3:15 PM UTC
Play That Funky Music...
I was born With white privilege; Irish ethnicity at that. Remember their holocausts! Occupied, evicted, brutalized, lynched, starved, hedge-scbooled, and, Refugeed on their own land, And on and on, and so on For seven hundred years. These things were before my time, But not my Granda's. It's so very true,  I was born with white privilege, But not with white entitlement.
Title suggested by song by Wild Cherry: "Play that funky music right/Play that funky music white boy/Lay down that boogie and play that funky music till you die..."
francie-lynch
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Jun 5, 2020
Jun 5, 2020 at 3:15 PM UTC
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