Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea

Growing up in the inner city of Chicago, I was surrounded by many friends who blamed and still blame, "The Rich White Man" for the reason they are where they are. My mother instilled in me from a young age to never blame and never complain and I was one of the few who went to college and moved on and found a successful career. There were also a select few from where I grew up who made it on to bigger and better things. The common theme with all of us is we had goals, direction and didn't blame or play any victim card. The last thing the inidividuals in my old neighborhood of North Lawndale in Chicago is to turn on Netflix and have another reason to think they are victims and whites are so privileged. It is true that it is a bit more challenging for us to get out and become something, but not impossible if you have the right message and ambition. These documentaries hurt more than help. They are made to allow guilty whites to feel better about themselves and don't actually take into consideration how much it hurts those in the inner cities who already feel they are victims. More of documentaries and things like this only confirm what they actually feel and will leave everyone stuck. We need empowering messages like, "Anyone can do it and make it" or "Focus on yourself and growing everyday", not "whites are the lucky ones and minorities have no chance." The filmmakers here felt so good about themselves making this film, but in my opinion it hurts minorities in tough situations.

Chelsea Handler channeling her personal guilt over her huge unwarranted success as a pretty woman with a foul mouth to blame all white people, 99.9% of whom will never enjoy her privileged life. Embarrassing and insulting.

She uses her privilege to talk about her privilege, to make more of that privileged money. Yet, she thinks she's so woke. She's like an annoying, drunken aunt that's stuck in her hippie days.

I found this a really naive, yet sincere take on Chelsea's own experience with race. She's very honest about her ignorance and she does reach to people of colour to hear them out, if in a bit of an exploitative way. A woman at the poetry slam she went said it best "the fact that you're making this is white privilege". I loved the contrast between what the republican ladies were saying and what the guys from Tennessee said. The rapper saying he was the top of the white trash and then being so articulate and thoughtful was a great sequence.

Whilst it still only scratches at the surface, Chelsea and her commentators raise some valid points and offers ways to start working through issues as:

• How white people need to solve this problem instead of just projecting it onto the black community
• How to better become more aware structures that work in your favour/against
• What some of the forms of structural dicrimination is currently happening in the US.

For little over an hour, it's a good conversation starter.

P.S.: There seem to be a lot of angry white trolls on this page.