Fuck yes.

[trinityvixen]

It doesn't have to be white privilege. Privilege is just as insidious in any form, but because our country's class imbalance skews along color lines (predominantly, though, of course, there are exceptions), it often manifests as racial.

Read the whole thing because it's brilliant.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The pregnant daughter issue is probably one of white privilege--but then, no one's saying that it's a good thing for Bristol to be pregnant. Just that it doesn't reflect that much on Sarah.

Except everyone is saying how brave she is and how admirable it is that she chose to have the baby. Whereas a black teenager would just be stupid and pregnant 'cause she was a slut and just wants welfare to pay for her everything. That's about as far as that story would go.

Also BS: it reflects so well on Sarah Palin because they're living their credo--no choice for anyone, babies for all. Except that they also want credit for not doing what they don't believe they should, would or could do otherwise. Obama's daughter got pregnant? National news coverage on how Michelle Obama's working outside the house let this happen. Obama is a terrible father. There wouldn't be any of this cheerleading and defensive cries for privacy. Chelsea Clinton never got them, and she was white.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

I still think it has more to do with the VP thing than the white thing. PLENTY of white girls who get knocked up are branded stupid sluts. Sometimes even if they don't get knocked up...now, if people had also been calling Paris Hilton "brave in the face of adversity" when her sex video was leaked a few years ago, you might have more of a case.

You say yourself that there was less outcry when Chelsea Clinton had negative attention - and in her case it was for no reason. But maybe you're just reading the wrong, uh, journalism...supermarket tabloids have been all over the Bristol Palin story.

Speculation about what might happen if Obama's daughter was pregnant isn't really valid. Both because it is speculation and because even if you're right it could have more to do with politics than race (if I may imply that one side is more about low blows than the other...)

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

As for what Chelsea Clinton got...

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, they're also trying to blame it on the Clenis, what with those "immoral messages in the media" Bristol received growing up under the Clinton Presidency... but you know this.