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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[viridian.livejournal.com]

I'm late on this, but I honestly don't think it is. Where I'm from, we thought the white girls who got knocked up at 15 were trashy, ignorant, and low-class. Even though to be fair, I did know two girls who got pregnant at 17 and were from completely upstanding upper-middleclass families. It STILL made people look down on them and their families.

Maybe that's just because there WERE no black people around to compare them to -- I mean maybe if there'd been any black girls at ALL in my high school save one who showed up in my sophomore year (and was almost definitely a lesbian so proooobably would not have gotten pregnant), maybe there would have been room to compare?

I don't know. I feel like the Palins (ALL of them) are pretty fucking trashy, to be honest.