Piggy-backing on my post from last night about Ta-Nehisi Coates book, Between the World and Me, this share via Wolf Weber is a good summary of both the foundation of the “American Dream” and basically the definition of white privilege.
Despite being tangentially aware of these underlying problems in American history and culture, it’s only been recently that I’ve been learning about them more in-depth, and it’s quite sobering.
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Dream, The American [Expr., Colloq.] 1. Aspiring to a situation where one is either ignorant of, or impervious to, the fact that one’s wealth and /or fortune is made possible by the poverty and/or exploitation and/or sacrifices of the overwhelming majority of others. (Cf. “1%”, “99%”) 2. Maintaining and propagating an illusion that wealth and/or fortune is attainable by everybody simultaneously, independent of basic laws and facts of economic and social reality.