Lauren Burk: All that Glitters isn’t White Privilege

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“And she didn’t really glitter” – St. Nicolas Thief
She wasn’t a bombshell blond, she drove a 2001 black Honda Civic and, although she attended Auburn, one of the top 50 public universities, she wasn’t white privilege.

“In the eyes of many in the Ghetto Bragging Rights community, Lauren Burk really wasn’t worth it,” say GBR critic & editor Kirkland Perkins. “Lauren Burk was no Jennifer Ross.”

Did Burk’s family own African American slaves? We’ve released a question to the Burk family asking them to disclose whether their family directly or indirectly benefited from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. But the family has not replied.

THE FOCUS ON COURTNEY: DOES HE HAVE GHETTO BRAGGING RIGHTS CREDENTIALS?

The U.S. Army says Courtney Lockhart began getting into trouble when he returned from Iraq. He was court-martialed in August of 2006 and faced several charges.

SEE: COURTNEY’S MILITARY RECORD

The jury’s still out on whether Lockhart will be voted into the 2008 Sexiest & Hardest Ghetto Black Male Felon Bragging Rights competition.

“It’s a fickle community,” Perkins notes. “Often, brothers whose social action reparations protests are against poor white trash don’t make the cut.”