MSNBC’s Touré slammed for tweet touting white privilege of Holocaust survivors

[obama2terms]

Touré Neblett found himself on the receiving end of criticism from a number of people after issuing a tweet indicating that those who survived Hitler's "Final Solution" did so only because of their whiteness, Twitchy reported Saturday. Mediaite explained the tweet was the result of Neblett's advocacy of an article in The Atlantic that makes the case for reparations.

"How much do I owe for what Dems did in the first half of the century, while my family was in Eurppe running from Nazis, or in Dachau?" one person asked Neblett on Twitter. "My family survived a concentration camp, came to the US w/ nothing, LEGALLY, and made it work."

Neblett responded: "The power of whiteness."

That message prompted angry responses from a number of people, including the person whose family survived the Holocaust.

http://www.examiner.com/article/msnbc-s-tour-slammed-for-tweet-touting-white-privilege-of-holocaust-survivors

[lostincalifornia]

1. What an ignorant jerk. Frankly, he should apologize for that asinine statement

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. I'm not sure he said what people think he did.

I read that a couple of times, and I don't think he was saying people 'survived the Holocaust' because they were white. I think he's saying people who immigrated to the US who were able to 'make it work', ie become prosperous over here, did so in part because they were entering a society that has all sorts of prejudices that make it easier for white immigrants to succeed than those with brown or black skins.

It's the same thing as white people who say 'my immigrant ancestors arrived in the US after slavery, so why should we pay reparations'? It's not that they personally necessarily owned slaves, but that they still have benefited from the ongoing institutional racism in society. Obviously not as much as those whose families benefited for a couple of centuries, but they still do benefit.

[lostincalifornia]

4. To me it is pretty clear, "when Jews who went through the holocaust came to the U.S. they were

treated well because of "white privilege"". That is what he was saying

It is a stupid statement that doesn't even apply to the use of "white privilege"

Perhaps he should read history a little more also. Jews were discriminated pretty heavily in this country during that period.

Just before the war, Jews were having a very difficult time getting into the U.S.

There was a lot of anti-Jewish sentiment in this country at the time

[tularetom]

3. I've never been impressed by people who think they only need one name

I've seen him on TV once or twice and he appears to be a shallow pretentious douchebag.

I like it when my first impression is validated.