The Idea of Unfair Advantages

     There have been so many ideas coming to light about everyone being on a level playing field that it is so easy to let the blood boil, but remember these knee-jerk reactions are what keep causing people to riot every time there is a police involved shooting.  At the same time, it is becoming a pattern of attacks, if you will, on bashing the importance of marriage or mocking the traditional family.  Now we're entering the zone of white people being blamed for their skin color, a phenomena called "white privilege". Something that I never thought would happen would be the reprimand of good, loving parents.  With what I can only call a progressive blame game, these theories are only causing a wider rift between people when we should be coming together for the common good.
     Let's begin Adam Swift; a professor at the University of Warwick in England.  He is quoted to have said that if you read to your child, then you are "unfairly disadvantaging" others.  To which he has also been quoted to have said that this activity leads to a "social justice problem" because other children who do not have this loving bond with a family member.  There was mention from him that the possibility of removing the family would create a level playing field for all.  His biography on the university's website does address this, to which he says that he never suggests that parents shouldn't read to their kids, yet to sometimes remember that there are others less fortunate than their child.  What strikes me the most is still this idea that he eludes to of "advantage".  That it's an advantage for parents to actually care about their responsibility.
     Boston University is not immune to their professors spouting some ridiculous rhetoric against white people.  Saida Grundy said that white males are a "problem population".  She's even gone on Twitter to say that “Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find it nearly impossible."  How interesting is it that we have this woman who will be teaching young minds to believe in such things.  Hardly seems fair to any of her students considering that no one has a choice of what social class they are born into, and they have just as little choice as to their skin color.  I would hesitate to take her class as a person of any color.  Since we're all concerned as a society now with this idea of "fair," don't you think this woman will be harder on the white students and possibly more lenient on those who are not white?  Heaven help any one in her class who is a white male, I cannot see how you make a passing grade.
     What I am seeing with these stories being generated with unfair advantages is that it is creating an excuse for people to not achieve.  It's creating this generation of people thinking themselves the victim of circumstance.  To Professor Adam Swift, I say that you obviously had parents who cared enough about you for you to become an educated man.  You're missing the forest for the trees.  There isn't a social injustice to parents teaching their children, nor is it one for them to love their children.  The social injustice occurs when people have children either too early, with a partner who doesn't want that responsibility, or if that parent is just selfish.  There is way too much of a concentration on punishing and shaming those doing right and not enough focus on how to help those doing wrong.  I'm sad to say that until these people who still think of skin color as a primary basis on which to judge a person die out, we will not see an end to these race wars.  As I stated earlier, no one chooses to be born into the situation and/or body that they are.  Everyone has a choice to make early on.  You can choose to be whatever and whoever you want, no matter and despite your social status.
     I'll leave you with the words of Matthew McConaughey from his speech to college grads this past week:
"DON’T CHOOSE ANYTHING THAT WILL JEOPARDIZE YOUR SOUL. PRIORITIZE WHO YOU ARE, WHO YOU WANT TO BE, AND DON’T SPEND TIME WITH ANYTHING THAT ANTAGONIZES YOUR CHARACTER. DON’T DRINK THE KOOL AID!"