Originally Posted by Rochard

I don't consider myself "privileged" at all. I was born white; Mommy was mommy and my Daddy died a US Marine in Vietnam. In 1969 my mommy was a single mother. We got by, eventually became middle class. I left home when I was sixteen, never looked back, and eventually joined the Marines and even later on went to get two college degrees. No one helped me at all.

On one hand the out right discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s and so on is staggering. I remember my grand mother called a white chick who had a black boyfriend a "zebra lover". But years later - decades later - my white daughter shouldn't be discriminated against because of something my grand parents did forty years before me.

Everyone has the same oppertunities I had. I dropped out of high school, was a drug user, joined the military, and put myself through college. It really wasn't that difficult.