Being Privileged

I WAS BORN WEALTHY. Because of my parents, the moment I was born, my  entire life was paid for, subject to my acceptance of it. i accepted. I accept. when I bought land and built a house I paid for it by writing a check. My career was a matter of choice, not necessity. I am privileged, and I know it. That I not need to tell anyone that my life matters in America, nor that the lives of my ancestors mattered. Nobody needs to tell me. Whenever some stable genius suddenly becomes linguistically clever, and announces that "all lives matter", as if performing some brilliant maneuver in a game of verbal chess, as if articulating some newly discovered esoteric profundity, I want to hurl. Instead, I patronize the idiot, I agree the way one agrees with an insecure child in need of positive reinforcement. I was born white, and wealthy. I have been disrespected only by arrogant American caucasian fools whose lives matter themselves more than should actual contributions to the humanity condition, to all lives, merit. those who smugly utter that all lives matter as if presenting a lashing response to black lives matter are accomplishing only their own self flattery. They are the ones who say that since slavery ended long ago, we need to stop complaining about racism, because it does not exist. what they refuse to realize is that slavery in America never ended, it simply evolved into something more insidious, more diabolical, something less visible, but still ambient. Every university sociology and criminology has done the research, and has revealed that racism in America is systemic, hard wired into our institutions, our culture, our hearts, minds, and souls. We can never escape from it, can never escape four hundred years of slavery's legacy until we fully acknowledge it, confess, repent, and atone.Conservatives tell us that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln and that racism, discrimination, and racism ended with martin Luther King. that, of course, is a self serving lie, intended only to comfort us and to allow racism to continue, unopposed. Even George Floyd did not end racism, cannot end it. Only we the people can do that, or if not, leave it to our descendants as our ancestors left it to us. the choice is ours, now.