Comments on: Being White, Being Happy http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Quaker in a Basement http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63667 Quaker in a Basement Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:34:51 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63667 Tell you what. Next time you're bummed out, give me a holler. I'll mope for you while you go have fun. Tell you what. Next time you’re bummed out, give me a holler. I’ll mope for you while you go have fun.

]]> By: Rounds77 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63666 Rounds77 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:30:28 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63666 Our unhappiness is not 100% the fault of external factors. Life choices play a role, too. Our unhappiness is not 100% the fault of external factors. Life choices play a role, too.

]]> By: Bruce/Crablaw http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63665 Bruce/Crablaw Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:07:47 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63665 I would be curious whether white people are affected by "Friends syndrome" - a perceived duty to say that they are happy when they aren't, because they want to be normal and "normal" [sic] to many white Americans means be happy, you are in the U.S.A. It may be the same thing that gets white voters to tell pollsters that they will vote for a black candidate when they won't. I would be curious whether white people are affected by “Friends syndrome” – a perceived duty to say that they are happy when they aren’t, because they want to be normal and “normal” [sic] to many white Americans means be happy, you are in the U.S.A.

It may be the same thing that gets white voters to tell pollsters that they will vote for a black candidate when they won’t.

]]> By: Diamond LeGrande http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63664 Diamond LeGrande Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:14:09 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63664 Chris Rock: "There isn't a white man in this room who would trade places with me. ... and I'm rich." Chris Rock: “There isn’t a white man in this room who would trade places with me. … and I’m rich.”

]]> By: Eric the Political Hack http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63663 Eric the Political Hack Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:51 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63663 Without the data being broken down into categories like income and even location, the statistic is meaningless. Without the data being broken down into categories like income and even location, the statistic is meaningless.

]]> By: frameone http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63662 frameone Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:32:38 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63662 "...and I'm better off than probably 90% of minority men." I was just joking but this point is well taken. I'm just washing around in the wake of a bad break up, I don't have to deal with systemic inequality and bigotry on a daily basis. Perspective, perspective ... “…and I’m better off than probably 90% of minority men.”

I was just joking but this point is well taken. I’m just washing around in the wake of a bad break up, I don’t have to deal with systemic inequality and bigotry on a daily basis.

Perspective, perspective …

]]> By: liberalrob http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63661 liberalrob Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:25:33 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63661 Feh. I'm white and unhappy, and I'm better off than probably 90% of minority men. Being white and unhappy doesn't change the cold facts that whites in general are better off in this country. Equality of opportunity does not mean there will equality of quality of opportunity. Of course whites are happier with the US than minorities; things are still tilted our way, we still control a disproportionate amount of the nation's wealth. We still have a long way to go. Feh. I’m white and unhappy, and I’m better off than probably 90% of minority men. Being white and unhappy doesn’t change the cold facts that whites in general are better off in this country. Equality of opportunity does not mean there will equality of quality of opportunity. Of course whites are happier with the US than minorities; things are still tilted our way, we still control a disproportionate amount of the nation’s wealth. We still have a long way to go.

]]> By: mambochicken23 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63660 mambochicken23 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:13:01 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63660 Framone, Ditto. Framone,

Ditto.

]]> By: frameone http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/08/21/being-white-being-happy/#comment-63659 frameone Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:52:23 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5445#comment-63659 i'm white and unhappy. Does that help? i’m white and unhappy. Does that help?

]]>