A young boy takes the stage. In a shaky voice, he says, "My name is Royce. My poem is titled, 'White Boy Privilege.'"
The video of the 14-year-old student's slam poem at his school has gone viral in the midst of heated national discussions regarding race and privilege. Performed at a slam poetry competition in May at The Paideia School in Atlanta, Royce Mann's winning poem offers a reflection on the privilege he feels he has been automatically awarded as a result of his being white and male.
His piece begins with a lamentation: "Dear women, I'm sorry. Dear black people, I'm sorry. Dear Asian-Americans, dear Native Americans, dear immigrants who came here seeking a better life, I'm sorry. Dear everyone who isn't a middle or upper-class white boy, I'm sorry. I have started life on the top of the ladder while you were born on the first rung."
As Royce continues, he acknowledges the barriers that those of other genders, races and classes must confront that he is fortunate enough to avoid: "Because of my race, I can eat at a fancy restaurant without the wait staff expecting me to steal the silverware. Thanks to my parents' salary I go to a school that brings my dreams closer instead of pushing them away." Royce concedes that, if given the choice, he would not choose to trade places with anyone else because "to be privileged is awesome." As he reads his poem, his voice grows louder and more impassioned. "It is embarrassing that we still live in a world in which we judge another person's character by the size of their paycheck, the color of their skin, or the type of chromosomes they have."
John Allen
Sounds like a gay to me.
Jace Howard
Kid's an actor from a fucked up showbiz family, probably Jewish, slam poetry is gay, we've had these discussions already, time to memory-hole this little race-traitor
Connor Hall
Well, let cuckboy smoothen racial relations. I don't give a shit anymore.
Alexander Roberts
>that kid >white
He looks like an Italian-Spic-Jew mix. This kid is not white.
Cameron Walker
Humblebrag of the century
Dylan Morgan
>slam poetry Stopped reading.
Leo Hall
This
>ebonic hymns
Landon Miller
That's not because of YOUR race, you idiot.
It's because niggers have literally earned that disrespect.
Gavin Mitchell
>Paideia School Atlanta: Admissions » Tuition. > > Tuition by levels > Half Day (Ages 3-5) $12,822 > Elementary (Ages 5-12) $20,691 > Junior High (Grades 7-8) $23,157 > High School (Grades 9-11) $23,214.
He's just another bored rich kid trying to get attention by virtue signaling. Got to give him credit for tricking blacks into kissing his white ass in response to his attention whoring.
Jackson Garcia
>“That was the first time I did slam poetry,” Mann told Fusion. “I wrote it because I became aware of white privilege this year. We have a class called Race, Class and Gender that everyone has to take, and I got really passionate about how unfair it is.”
Luke Richardson
You guys throw the word around cuck to much. A real fucking white trash cuck right here.
Ryder Harris
>slam poetry >immediately starts apologizing
This is what happens when you toss your son to rot in government schools.
David Nelson
Saw this shit on facebook. ATTN page. Comments were fucking cringey.
Isaac Williams
We live in a society that congratulates those who can regurgitate academia doctrine
Matthew Perry
Kek it's a private school? We're all doomed.
Cooper Diaz
Imagine paying 20k a year for your son's tuition and this happens. I would be fucking pissed.
Benjamin Gomez
Ur entire country is cringy
Christopher Perez
CNN thinks this is news? fucking christ
Julian Roberts
What do you mean? A rich guy fucks your wife?
Adrian Miller
I'm sorry my parents worked hard to ensure their children would have the best start possible. It's a crime really, they should've made children when they were 19 and worked at mcdonalds for the rest of their lives. I'm really fucking sorry my ancestors created civilizations throughout the history and made sure to inherit the quality onwards, ensuring a better future. Truly we should be living in mudhuds, my bad
Aaron Stewart
AW SHIT GOOK FIGHT! GOOK FIGHT EVERYONE!
Kevin Garcia
South Korea is fucked considering what happened last time.
Caleb Thompson
Grab ur hamburger America ur about to see some FIRE
Jordan Hill
I'm ready, I'll take 1/100 odds on the panface korean, he seems spunky
Leo Scott
He's so punchable. I'm whiter than him and I'm Greek
Cooper Davis
He looks like a spic desu
Isaac Hill
His parents are likely limousine liberals who are delighted little Johnny has gained so much attention. Bet none of them feel the slightest bit guilty about living in white neighborhoods in a majority black city.
Justin Watson
>slam poetry only numales and college girls like that shit
Brayden Richardson
kek
Wyatt Howard
>English teacher fight
Jeremiah Price
>this >white
wut?
Nathan Adams
hes not WHITE..at all.
his name is ROYCE....lol....ROYCE
Jackson Ramirez
can it, jjokbari, our military could cuck your nation in a week
Charles Sanchez
>goes viral What a meaningless fucking buzz word. It "went viral" because they featured it on their own goddamn website. Fucking kikes.