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Im the son of a third generation irish mill worker who himself dropped out of high school to ultimately join the navy for a while... when the mills closed my dad spent his remaining years mostly as a janitor.
I had to drop out of college after a semester cause i just couldnt afford it and i needed to work more just to help them get by...
I make great money... more than any of my college educated friends with masters or other high end diplomas... that didnt happen because of any privilege or because of any favors... i had to work hard and smart and sacrifice a **** ton of stuff to get here...
i kind of get mad when my snobby liberal friends accuse my current state as white privilege.. i had nothing handed to me, not even opportunity.. i had to work ten times harder just to get noticed in a sea of faceless drones... i had to prove every time i was worthy because the biggest discrimination in this society is not having that rag they give you for sitting through blowhards giving lectures about nonsense...
/end rant...
I grew up poor. Single mom who divorced my abusive alcoholic DNA donor. we lived with my grandparents for a long time. Fished and hunted to supplement our food. grandparents gardened, grandfather worked, grandma took care of me, her 5 other kids still at home while my mom went to EMT school. Eventually, mom went to LPN school and we could afford to live away from grandparents.
Except for me, only one other person in my family, out to second cousins, went to college (several have gone to community college or a bit further since).
When I ****** up in college, white privilege didn't keep me from moving back to sweep floors in a rice mill until I could get my **** straight.