I don't want to understand your daily struggle

I'm not surprised when blacks claim whites have no understanding of what they go through because we haven't lived it.

In a way, they are right.

I wasn't raised to be disrespectful to authority, therefore, I've never been treated like scum by police.

I wasn't raised around gangs and drugs and crime, therefore, I've not been in a situation that caused the police to profile me as a criminal at first sight.

I wasn't raised to believe I had the right to do whatever I want without consequence, therefore, I've never participated in a violent protest, or looted, or destroyed an innocent persons property because I felt an injustice had occurred.

I wasn't raised to believe that actions by others would determine my future, therefore, I got a job at 14 and made my own money, earned my own way and took responsibility for my own failures & successes along the way.

I WAS raised to be kind and considerate of others, therefore, I've never claimed that my life mattered more than someone else's.

I have made choices in my life that led me where I am today. They haven't all been good and I regret some of them but they made me who I am. Nobody else did that. It was me. I grew up in a questionable neighborhood. There were opportunities for me to go a completely different path. I didn't. I chose better.

If deciding not to be a victim and make a better life for myself means I have white privilege in your eyes, so be it. I'd prefer to call it "common sense privilege" because I had the common sense to avoid situations that could put me in a bad place.

Yes, white people may never understand what (some) black people experience on a daily basis. But that's because we had the common sense to choose a better path. If you don't want your children to be in gangs or turn to a life of crime, you have to change that when they are young. They have to choose a new path as they grow up.

Stop blaming white people because you can't get your shit together. Feel discriminated on the job hunt? Blame your fellow brothers and sisters that have shown such a poor image of black people to the world that employers are afraid to hire you.

Don't want to be profiled by the police? Tell your people to stop attacking them, threatening them and being complete assholes when they encounter police. They don't trust you because they don't know which of you are OK and which are out to get them. Kind of the same as you blaming all cops for the actions of a few, right?

I wouldn't want to deal with what some black folks encounter on a daily basis, because it would mean playing the victim, risking my life just because I thought I was better than someone else, and being a generally rude obnoxious human being.

I chose a different path. You can too. Stop blaming others for your lack of success. You make your way and if you don't, you're just another entitled loser using race as a crutch to excuse your horrible behavior.