The Myth of White Privilege
Steven Lemon
originally published May 9, 2016
Revised 24 October, 2019

The notion of WHITE PRIVILEGE is nothing but an excuse for non accomplishmentarianism, 
which, in my own personally constructed dictionary is defined as
"The philosophy and the practice of making excuses for a lack of accomplishment by attributing 
such failure to other groups and/or factors, real and imagined, such as racism, discrimination, pri-
vilege or ancient history."

In TODAY'S world, if Whites or anyone else has an advantage over Black people it is not because 
Whites TOOK it, but because we let them have it unopposed.

Our grandparents used to say that Blacks have to run twice as fast as Whites just to get credit for 
keeping up with them.

Our grandparents lived during a time when that may have indeed been true, but today is a new day, 
and the only thing keeping US from getting TWICE what we have already is not White people or 
White privilege. It is US.

White people have neither the time nor the need to focus on holding us back. They are too busy 
making sure they keep themselves moving forward. Besides, we do such a great job of holding
ourselves back and they can't do it to us any better than we are doing it to ourselves.

We could be ten times as great as we are if we focus on achieving our goals without regard to how 
they relate to White people. There are opportunities galore for Blacks to improve ourselves in every 
way possible but too many of us seem to think we cannot move forward
unless a White man steps back.

What a humungous amount of time and energy we squander, pointing fingers and blaming the other 
guy for being out in front of us while the opportunities to catch up and keep up are passing us by.
Never before in the annals of human history have so many done so little with so much.