For Sale

[Margaret Pilkington]

For Sale
My White Privilege Card.
Over 70 years old, but in ‘as new’ condition because it has not been used.
It has done nothing for me.
No Free housing, no free food, no free university.
Everything I have has been paid for. I have worked for everything I own.
I have done without holidays and flash gear, nights out, concerts and on some occasions food in order to put a roof over my head. To own my own house.
Nobody paid my mortgage for me. I have taken no hand outs.
I have paid shed loads of taxes and am STILL paying them in order to support those who do not choose to work, those who come here illegally in small boats.
I pay for them to live here too.

I would prefer a cash sale but in the absence of that I would be willing to accept a used Victim Card.
It seems that these are more valid in life, have more benefits and often do not need to be shown.
If interested in buying please PM me as I do not own a mobile phone.
Thank you for your attention.

[Exile on Spencer St]

Worth about as much as an old “white” fiver, Margaret.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, I remember those.
I was hoping to get a bit more for my White Privilege Card..because there are folk out there who seem to think that this White Privilege is what got me where I am today.

They did not see me get up at 4.30 in a morning and walk from Clayton to Accrington to get a bus to Rawtenstall for a 6-2 shift in the weaving mill.

How did my White Privilege Card help me pay my mortgage when the interest rates were at 15%?

Those who need to put a colour in front of this statement ‘Lives Matter’ or take the knee, are most definitely racist!

[RainbowSix]

Would you consider swapping it for a cotton picking slave card?
About 250 years old and in good condition, the original owner stopped using it many many years ago.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I might, so long as I was not required to move from Lancashire.

However much we lament, we cannot change the past.
Those black slaves were young African people who had been captured by other tribes (people who were their own colour) and sold to slave traders.
I do not see the African nations lamenting their actions or beating themselves up about their part in this.
Many of those who are activists either do not know this or do not accept the part of the tribes in the trading of slaves.
In fact it was a British MP (William Wilberforce) who campaigned for the banning of this trade.
This led to the 1807 act of Parliament that made the trade in slaves illegal.

Every day is a school day on Accyweb.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Today, slaves are not in chains, they are in debt. And colour is not an issue.

[Exile on Spencer St]

Originally Posted by RainbowSix

Would you consider swapping it for a cotton picking slave card?
About 250 years old and in good condition, the original owner stopped using it many many years ago.

Glib woke nonsense, Rainbow.
Maybe you’re descended from the slave owning classes but most of us aren’t. What do you think life was like for our ancestors 250 years ago?
This is the briefest summary I can find, although I struggled to find many descriptions of how the “lower orders” actually lived.

The life of an average family in late 17th century England was simple, yet laborious. Many lived in one or two room houses that were often crowded with large families, as well as lodgers that shared their living space. Women typically gave birth to eight to ten children; however, due to high mortality rates, only raised five or six children. The children of average or poor families began working very early on in life, sometimes even as early as age seven. They worked mostly on farms as shepherds, cowherds, or apprentices and often left home to do so. ……. The average and poor families of the late 17th century England did not yet have the luxury of piped water, which created a rarity in bathing. Because of the unhygienic lifestyle, lice and vermin were very common with these families.

(https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/s...8th-centuries/)

[Margaret Pilkington]

The privations of the past are soon forgotten and those who are trumpeting how bad Britain was in the times of the Slave Traders do not realise that there were ancestors of theirs who were just as enslaved as those tribesmen sold in Africa.

That moves to end slave trading started here…and were followed by other nations a couple of years later.

Farm workers might have had a roof over their heads, but only if they continued to be employed by a farmer.

We have come a long way, yet there is still poverty, but it is the poverty of thought rather than financial poverty.

[RainbowSix]

Methinks sarcasm may have been lost on Exile on Spencer st?

BTW I live in a house that houses several families, only 1 now though.

Never mind I'll put my card on a shelf next to my own white privilege card.

[Margaret Pilkington]

You mean you have both!
Don’t you think that is a bit greedy?

[Exile on Spencer St]

Apologies, Rainbow, difficult to pick up on sarcasm on here.

[Margaret Pilkington]

The sarcasm has meant that people have read and added to the thread….and yes the nuances that are obvious in person to person and face to face discussion are absent (or difficult to pick up on)in text discussions.

But then it is also easy to make a comment, which when challenged, you can say it was ‘tongue in cheek’ or ‘just a joke’.

Thank you to those who have responded. That in itself is rare these days.

[RainbowSix]

OF course, our cards are a complete fake, as white privilege does not exist and has not for many years.

It's a figment of the imagination used to try and make out white people can do stuff that people of other colours cannot yet when asked to name something they cannot.

[Restless]

I think I will choose not to comment on this

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[Margaret Pilkington]

Why Restless….all comments are welcome.
Your opinion may differ, but it is yours to own.