Daydreamer....chill out and read my post again.....
I said...
<, it´s called "White Privledge".......it´s seen in the US with White people having social advantages in comparison to people of color...although it could be in any country and any color. The weaithy Nigerian´s family.....and on and on...and luck has a lot to do with it. You were lucky enough to be the "right" color, lucky enough to have come from a home were you learned to value yourself.> .............or in other words...LUCKY!!!!...
Rather, I think calling the ones who were enslaved
<<Birdy, sure, a lot depends on luck. But being an immigrant myself I´ve met the weirdest people ever ..............Anyway, if you´re stupid enough to go abroad without knowing the language or having enough money to get by till you get a job, you´re to blame!>>
Shows an amazing lack of understanding of the situation these poor people are in. I wrote "right color" in quotations....meaning it could be any set of circumstances popular at the time. For sure those who have become enslaved are not stupid...they are desparate, in need of compassion and HELP!
....................and yes, I do actually have a pretty good idea of problems Poles have had through history.......nobody gets a free ride in this life, but some are more fortunate that others.
Alameda, I might be what you call "the right colour" (how racist is that?) but you´d have to know more about my country´s history to consider my legacy advantageous. You have no idea what Polish people had to go through in order to escape their communist country, you´ve no idea how they were treated in Germany or Italy...Do you know how many Polish women married obnoxious Germans or Brits just to buy themselves and their children a better future? I don´t think you do! Do you know what conditions Polish immigrants in the US had to endure? You probably don´t because you´re an American citizen sure of her rights and entitlements and your hobby is looking for injustice towards non-white people and ignore injustice to white folks. That´s not really fair, is it? I´m sick and tired of hearing how easy things are for me just because I´m white. Wake up girl! Being white means nothing as long as you have the wrong passport.
Even now, when we´re in the EU, Poles are being discriminated against in the UK and Ireland. Read statistics about how many Poles have been assaulted only because they´re Polish. Or how easily they´re to blame in courts - circumstantial evidence is enough to grant a young Pole double lifetime sentence for alleged rape, while Brits who beat a Pole to death (and it´s captured on CCTV) get 10 years. That´s really fair!
And the racism card is played way too often. A friend of mine is a supervisor in a shop. You know whom she cannot tell to stop fooling around and get to work? Nigerians. Why? because she immediately gets reported for racism. That´s fair in your opinion, isn´t it? 
You can write a book on racism. I´m not saying people are still not being judged basing on their colour. Sure they are. But not all of them. Some are being discriminated because of their nationality, religion, disability or gender. And some abuse the discrimination card. That´s life...
So, stop moaning about how easy it is for white people because the colour of your skin is nt enough to grant you an easy life!
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