I'll tell you what a thug is. A thug is a person who uses force and threats to make other people give "respect." Additionally, a thug is a person who robs, peddles drugs, assaults people. It's not forced assimilation into "white culture" to expect people not to do such things.
And I think the word “thug” is used, too often, to describe individuals who do not do any of the things you have mentioned. You are referring to a post I reblogged that mentions a couple people, one of them being Trayvon Martin who was labeled a thug, even though when white teens, who participate in the same behavior, are not labeled as such.
White culture does threaten poc into respecting them, and robs, and assaults people, and distribute drugs, so really.. who are the real thugs?
If you put your preconceptions down for a little while and research white privilege you would come to a different conclusion. It is ego and prejudice that is stopping you from seeing the truth. White privilege is such a large spectrum, and so unquestioned, that it can be hard to detect (if your of a mind to ignore it). The mere presence of white people on the Americas is an example of white privilege; for example, yet it goes unchecked everyday.
You LITERALLY just argued that a white person born in America is somehow privileged, yet one born in Germany is not.
It’s idiocy.
It’s bigotry.
It’s RACISM.
Be ashamed, be very ashamed.
Nope, it was one example. All white people benefit from white privilege, whether they want to or not. White privilege is not limited to American white people.