Get Out of Free Card

Greg Beale
5 min readOct 3, 2018

And the rich get richer.

It is called white man privilege and it is alive and well in America.

Trump even called for its defense today, as he warned young men that they too could be falsely accused of wrong sexual behaviors with many women (which he did by the way) in an attack on white privileged males? This in spite of the fact that like 1/3 of sexual assaults are even reported.

What? And there is this “investigation” that yet again shows he indeed is part of America’s privileged white male elite. The FBI thing is a sham!

That is what this is all about by the way. Women and people of color are growing in political power and the white elite (joined by middle class white men who were manipulated by Trump) are trying to elect a member of the white male elite to protect its ill gotten gains. And they will win!

The white male elite has ruled this country for centuries. It led slavery, it led the genocide of Native Americans, it led the racism against Asians and Mexican Americans. It is firmly in power right now, and even a hint of a challenge gets us to Trump.

We showed them the Koch Brothers exclaimed as they saw to it that an absolute idiiot was elected President. And the Citizens United decision made it real clear that the white male corporate world was firmly in charge.

It is not accident that Hillary and Bill Clinton were self made; that scares the hell out of the elite.

Predictably Trump committed fraud as he inherited his wealth; he did not earn it as he has so constantly lied about. If he is self made then I’m Donald Duck…I’m not!

He was given his wealth by his Daddy, who just happened to be a KKK member whose racist background is proven.

So the white middle class male, who so much admires Trump, but will trade the hypocrisy for protection of his imagined status.

Imagined? Why imagined?

Because you are getting worked, just like the poor white trash in the Jim Crowe south, who were first used in the Confederate Army to be cannon fodder by the white male aristocracy who always seemed to be at home or in the rear, then were the Jim Crowe army in the antebellum South, who killed thousands of African Americans for not keeping on their side of the sidewalk. Did you know the elite in the north and the south could buy their way out of service. The death count of the Civil War were poor men.

And theirs reward for this service on both sides: poverty!

That’s right, the aristocrats never rewarded them for keeping them in power. They just shit all over them and the poor fools asked for more.

Why, because of the threat, which was constantly made, that blacks would place higher on the pecking order.

That is what is going on right now.

Brett Kavenaugh is a white privilege elite. He is also a sexual predator. He is also a drunk. He also broke the law several times as a high school and college student.

But he went to Yale. He was Cum Laude…

Did you know that almost everyone at Yale was Cum Laude….they did not rank students, they just gave all those with a certain grade point the Cum Laude distinction.

Why, because it opened corporate doors to spoiled rotten graduates who took over for their fathers in running the country.

And this hubris has afflicted the Untied States for over 200 years.

An African American, Native American, Asian, or Poor White kid, when they are born, do not get any Get Out of Jail Free Cards…..white rich boys of privilege get an endless supply.

I have a probably ex friend who is a good example (no names). But he was born into wealth, he was my college roommate.

At Stanford some fool decided to push diversity and put white kids of privilege with those who were not.

My roommate in our First Conversation told me how he had been traveling in Europe in the summers since he was 12 and his hobby was screwing all the Prostitutes he could. He then told me he intended to get kicked out of Stanford because it was his Daddy’s idea to send him there. Now this was 1965 when my classmates at Shasta High were getting drafted to go to Vietnam if they didn’t have a deferment. I remember asking my spoiled rotten roommate how he would deal with that when he flunked out…his father, who was a legacy father (he graduated from Stanford and that was a way in for his son) would probably disown him.

His response was incredulous, he said no way that will happen.

And he flunked out. And no draft happened…and he went back to Europe and is still screwing Prostitutes for all I know.

He had a permanent get of of jail card.

Barry Grigsby, a friend who was killed in Vietnam in 1966, did not!

Me, well once my deferments ran out, I joined a half a step ahead of the draft. No get out of jail card for me. I did not go to Vietnam, was honorably discharged because of a severe football injury that plagues me even today…No get of of jail free card for me.

Then there is the wild one friend, who rebelled against his rich parents guidance, dropped out of college, maybe even high school and became a surfer.

He then hung out for years, until he finally got a job, traveling around the world. He was disowned for a time by his parents, but they just passed away and guess what, in spite of his rebellion, in spite of a lifetime of not doing what his parents wanted, he inherits several million dollars and is on easy street.

I inherited $26,000 from my parents…what was left of his Assisted Living Care that I also helped pay for….this guy, inherits a windfall after a lifetime of rebellion.

Another get out of jail free card.

And boy you should hear the screams coming out of him about what is happening to Kavenaugh, the righteous indignation…the due process bullshit.

Fact, Kavenaugh will walk on this one too. He walked on all the other ones because he has a shit load of money.

Equality is a con in America. There has never been equal opportunity. A child of color never gets a break, and if they do succeed they have to work a hundred times harder and one mistake and they are dead. Literally if they are in a car and get pulled over, they are typecast as an angry black, and can wind up dead not matter what they now do for a living. The skin is their permanent never get out of jail card.

A white male of privilege can get away with ANYTHING!

If you want an example, look in the White House….

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Greg Beale

Stanford grad, BA Political Science, MA from Sac State, Varsity Football Player, in public education as teacher, coach, athletic director, and administrator.