Teaching privledge to a poor white person

[december_solstice]

I just read this article, http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person, and I thought it was very insightful.

Considering all the resistance I've been feeling this year. I could not fathom, or wish upon myself, to be poor AND a person of color (sometimes I forget I\m biracial because in all honesty, I exist in America as a white woman), to be poor AND disabled, ect. Imagine if I were gay AND poor in America, or not speak very good English.

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[ringlat.livejournal.com]

welcome to my life LOL. disabled, poor, immigrant, GLBT whose family abandoned them................. in the future (once i move to japan) i'll be an ethnic minority that everyone's racist against too. (my curly brown hair, the sure sign of another "race" in sweden, is acceptable where i currently live - but my wife was bullied for her brown hair all growing up.)

but eh, it's just life in the end. 10, 20 years ago it was different - but now EVERYONE has internet, everyone can do something about getting themselves more money over time (publishing books and music, for example - without a "publisher", just online; you can learn how to write and create that music online as well) or about educating themselves ("how to not waste all you earn", "everything school and your mom never told you")... for me too, i know if i just sat down and did something i'd have tons of books i could publish, and i'd be rolling in money without anyone's help. i even have all the book ideas! it's just self-discipline that's lacking.

so, in that way i don't think i'm unfortuate at all. at the very least i haven't decided "this is how it'll always be". the writer mentioned everyone around them was unhelpful shit all growing up, well i can say the same for most people i knew as well but you have to realize that you just IGNORE those people. i guess because i read a ton of books as a kid, then was just constantly consuming anime/manga/fanfics after that, i already knew a lot of different opinions about life i guess you could say.... of course i was lucky that i somehow managed to get ahold of books and learn to read at all, right? : /

[outerspace-bae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I was just thinking about - your last bit. Honestly, I feel like probably one of the biggest privileges is access to the internet. Like LEGIT. And, of course, access to education in general. Being educated. Ect. Of course, there are lots of people who are "educated" in a sense they went to school (maybe the school was shitty LOL), but are lacking when it comes to...creativity, resourcefulness, and general "smarts". Critical thinking. Thinking outside the box. You get the idea.

You're so right though, these days, you really can create and publish/produce your own content/media, and there are many ways to make money on the web. There is also freelancing. It's just a matter of keeping at it. Keep educating yourself until you figure out a method that works. That's honestly exactly what I want to do. It's just a matter of learning and like you said...having the discipline. It helps when you have someone doing it with you (ex. me LOL). I send you some stuff btw - in another message.