johngoddard on Nostr: They tell me I have white privilege, but I can’t see it. I pay more for concert ...

They tell me I have white privilege, but I can’t see it.

I pay more for concert tickets, and the interest rate on my mortgage is higher.

I’m lower down the queue to get surgery.

I have to pay my own way through school and university.

And nobody’s given me any reparations, even though my ancestors were shipped to the other side of the world as prisoners.

Every history book has been rewritten to erase our accomplishments, and our contributions to society are ignored.

Somehow people think the Westminster System just spontaneously came into existence.

Propaganda paints us as evil.

All our monuments are being dismantled.

And our presence in society is something that they’re trying to erase.

They tell me that I’m guilty by virtue of my skin colour.

They tell me that I have to pay rent to live on the land my family’s called their own for 8 generations.

They tell me that I shouldn’t speak my mind, that I need to make space for others.

But I’m not going to do that.

I’m not going to constrain my excellence to give someone else a turn.

Because it seems like the only way you can level the playing field is to rig the whole game against me.

And I refuse to live in some communist hellscape where equity is the endgame.

I want meritocracy.