I Was Wrong About White Privilege But I Found Something Worse

The Claim That Privilege Is Real but Misidentified

Hi, my name is Adam Robles, and today is a bit of a different video. I have to admit that I've been thinking a lot, and I think I've been wrong about these ideas of white privilege and male privilege and the different intersectional privileges out there, you know, and honestly, I've been thinking about intersectionality and about the world and just my lived experience, and you know, frankly, I think there's something else we need to talk about besides male privilege.

These are legit, you know, white privilege is legit, male privilege is legit, but there's something that's even more pervasive and problematic in our time, and it's called, I'm going to call it not me privilege.

Everyday Examples of Being Excluded From Representation

I mean, I think about this, like every time I go to the bookstore, you know, I could look for half an hour, I could look for a whole day, and I'll never find me on a book cover. You know, I think about all the movies I've seen, I've never seen myself in a movie, or even anyone that even looks like me.

It's pervasive, it's just absolutely problematic. I was also thinking about just sort of how the newspapers constantly present these not me's in a positive light, just, you know, glorying in all the accomplishments of all these not me's and the different not me's that run companies and things like that.

Do you know that, you know, I'm like 0 .0000001 of the population in the United States, yet I am 0 of the lawyers in the world, 0 of the prosecutors in the world. You don't think that has an impact on justice.

You don't think the fact that there's 0 of me's in the prosecution in the courts of law as judges, you don't think that I'm not represented there doesn't have an impact on me. You know, I gotta be honest with you, like, this is pretty clear.

This is pretty clear. There's a not me privilege that's rampant in America. And it's, I mean, I'm impressed. I'm absolutely impressed. I don't have any of the power. All the power is, is vested in these not me's.

Institutional Power and the Constitution

And it's, I mean, I feel like I've been stolen from. I feel like I've been colonized. And it's just outrageous. I think, you know, we really all ought to consider the not me privilege. That's just absolutely pervasive in our culture.

It's institutional. Even if you think about it, I mean, our constant, the constitution of our country was set up with a bunch of not me's for the benefit of not me's. And it's just, I don't even know really what to say about it.

Proportional Representation and the Call for Justice

It's, it's just, the evidence is clear. I mean, I, I dare you to refute any of those points. I mean, look at, look at the NFL, look at the NBA. I mean, a hundred percent of them is not me's I'm underrepresented.

It's just that simple. And so I wonder what, what can we do about this? I mean, honestly, I think that something is owed to me and I just, I wonder what it is, but I mean, at the very least I should be proportionally represented in these things.

Like I should be proportionally represented in the judicial system and, and in the movies and in the newspapers and in the books and stuff like that. I've just, it's unfair, it's unjust and we need to fight for justice.

So I hope you'll join me in fighting the not me privilege. Because frankly, you know, it's, it's, it's time it's 2017 it's almost 2018 it's time.