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re: White Privilege Is a Thing. Here’s How It Works.

Posted on 8/16/18 at 10:30 am to
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 8/16/18 at 10:30 am to
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If you're a 30 year old black person, you were 3x more likely to have been born into poverty than a 25 year old white person.


That's still not white privilege. If there were real white privilege, it would apply to all people. It doesn't.

Now if you want to say you have a better chance of being born into a good family if you're white, that makes sense. However, to say every white person has an inherent advantage over a black person by birth (white privilege) is wrong.
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
85489 posts
Posted on 8/16/18 at 11:18 am to
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Now if you want to say you have a better chance of being born into a good family if you're white, that makes sense. However, to say every white person has an inherent advantage over a black person by birth (white privilege) is wrong.


Is there really a difference? Most black people in this country were either alive during segregation or born to parents who experienced it. Even if we say the privilege ended then, the impacts of it aren't going to go away within two generations.

I don't feel guilty nor do I feel any need to apologize for it, but I still recognize it.
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