Michael Berry on white privilege: "Are we supposed to be embarrassed that we don't roam the streets because our parents didn't let us?"
Citation From the June 2, 2020, edition of iHeartRadio's The Michael Berry Show
MICHAEL BERRY (HOST): Wait a second. What is this white privilege we keep hearing so much about? Are white people supposed to be embarrassed because of how we are born, what we look like? Are we supposed to be embarrassed if our parents got married before we were born? If they stayed together as a family through good and bad times as well? Are we supposed to be embarrassed because our dads worked overtime so that we would have enough? Are we supposed to be embarrassed that we don't roam the streets because our parents didn't let us? Is this something to be ashamed of? Is a strong nuclear family and a strong work ethic something to be embarrassed of? This is privilege now? Is working very hard to scratch and claw yourself out of poverty or working class, wherever you are on the spectrum, to the rung above and saving it and passing it to your children something that we are supposed to be embarrassed of now? Do we have a nation within a nation? Are these people occupiers and others are occupied? Are we really still talking about slavery in 2020?