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Originally Posted by wutamess
In general. You can't sit here and tell me that you don't think you have certain advantages because you're white.
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It works both ways. Maybe someone sees my pasty flabby ass and thinks I'm a standup guy because I'm white. But if anything goes wrong anywhere, anyhow, I don't have any connections to keep it from all being taken away. My mom's a housewife [now working a Dilbert job at IRS, now that her children are grown]. My dad's a fabricator with an associate's degree in EE. My maternal grandparents were DIRT poor knockabouts, I'm talkng decades of the only income being grandpa's veteran's pension of $100-odd a month and what he got from stripping copper and aluminum out of what he drug out of the 'dump' [they have unattended, public places where you can just dump your trash in Louisiana]. My paternal grandparents, grandma was a housewife and grandpa worked 40 years repairing brakes on train cars for Mobil. Grandma's fairly well off, but that's because they saved like mofos each and every year, and their savings went into Mobil stock.
But it's not like I can go anywhere and people will say 'Oh, you're Baby Lee, Mr. Lee's son,' and get anywhere.