A video is making the rounds and it supposedly explains white privilege in the most basic of ways. A foot race for $100 is about to take place. People are given two steps forward based on things like education and two parent homes. This is possibly the most racist video that I have ever seen. The fact that black folks are sharing it and proud of it frightens me.

Here is the video. Watch it and be utterly appalled:

Are you okay? I know. Give you a minute. I should have warned people to wait thirty minutes after eating before watching the video. Oops, my bad.

The first thing that strikes me is that this is some college professor’s idea of being educational. Sledgehammer much? The second thing that strikes me is most college students wouldn’t get out of bed these days for $100.00. Third, the questions that aren’t outright racist are such Upper West Side of Manhattan or college campus assumption types.

That the speaker is a college professor and only identifies with the white kids is laugh out loud funny or pathetic. His use of “we” is appalling. And, where on God’s green earth except maybe an Ivy League school are there that many people in one place who had access to a private education and a private tutor? Except, on Ivy League Campuses there are also many Asian, Indian and Hispanic students. Do they have privilege? What kind of privilege? Is there Asian privilege and is it only invoked in two parent homes? Are only black people in danger of having their cell phones turned off? Talk about a racist idea. And, at least one of the white girls in the video is wearing a privilege t-shirt.