Men's Group

White privilege implies white superiority (economic cultural control).

They don't feel superior.

They understand poor. They have lived poor.

They understand exactly what it means to be poor.

They resent being told they have failed at being white (in control) because they are poor.

Worse, the implication they are too stupid to understand there are people worse off than themselves.

What is difficult to express for themselves is knowing they identify with the struggle against oppression which flourishes in our capitalist system.

A system that at its core is white privilege (economic cultural control) writ large.

To tell them otherwise is insulting to what they hold to be true.

Their experience.

Their experience tells them oppression is wrong on any level.

Which just may be why they are here in the first place.

It's not to tell people what to think, on the contrary, it's to RELATE to others in the same boat.

Could this be why there's push back?

Those who aren't interested in making allies of the very people who came here to share their experience, their pain, their commitment to help were they can, are missing the message completely.

But what the fuck do I know.

I got the white male privilege.