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In reply to the discussion: My message to Chelsea, the Obamas and future presidential kids. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)The world is what it is. I assume you consider all of the 99% talk to be 'sick' as well, since that's really all the OP is getting at.
People who have the enormous privilege that enormous wealth bring live, by and large, with a far different worldview than the rest of 'us', simply because of the difference in how everyone treats them, what they can afford, where they tend to live. Do you think that kids who grow up with secret service following them around are going to have the same experiences as everyone else? Kids who are in the safe cocoon of private schools, who will be fast-tracked for Ivy League educations, grow up with trust funds?
It's not a slur on them to say they live a life the rest of us probably never will, and that their experiences will shape them differently than if they grow up with the same experiences the paycheck-to-paycheck crowd will.
Do the Obama kids have to deal with the effects of white privilege? Sure. But the insulating effects of wealth privilege will intersect with it and make it far less impactful in their lives than the kids of your random AA in Anytown America.