<story><title>I taught my black kids their elite upbringing would protect them</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/i-taught-my-black-kids-that-their-elite-upbringing-would-protect-them-from-discrimination-i-was-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nether</author><text>There was a Fresh Prince episode about this!&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;After Carlton and Will are pulled over and detained...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Carlton (to Will): What&amp;#x27;s your complaint here? We were detained for a few hours, Dad cleared things up, and we were released. The system works.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Will: I hope you like that system because you&amp;#x27;ll be seeing a whole lot of it in your lifetime.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Carlton: Not if I bring a map.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Will: You just don&amp;#x27;t get it, do you? No map is going to save you and neither is your glee club, or your fancy Bel-Air address or who your daddy is. Because when you&amp;#x27;re driving in a nice car in a strange neighborhood, none of that matters. They only see one thing. (taps Carlton on his face)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Carlton: Well, maybe growing up where you did has made you a little touchy, but I think you&amp;#x27;ve blown this whole thing out of proportion. If you look at the facts...
(Will walks away disgusted)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://freshprince.wikia.com/wiki/Mistaken_Identity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;freshprince.wikia.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mistaken_Identity&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>I taught my black kids their elite upbringing would protect them</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/i-taught-my-black-kids-that-their-elite-upbringing-would-protect-them-from-discrimination-i-was-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tedks</author><text>I can imagine a very easy parallel to the tech community: &amp;quot;I taught my daughters their nerd cred would protect them.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s irritating how the author has to buttress his statements on privilege with &amp;quot;of course, the existence of white privilege doesn&amp;#x27;t mean all white people are violently racist.&amp;quot; White people, and white men in particular, are so reactionary when confronted by the mere existence of their institutionalized privilege that they demand such things. I&amp;#x27;m sure this post won&amp;#x27;t be popular for exactly that reason. It&amp;#x27;s a lot like this Onion article: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-dont-support-feminism-if-it-means-murdering-all,37301/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theonion.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;i-dont-support-feminism-if-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>