re: If you are black, explain what white privilege looks like

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I’ve been in the back of a cop car multiple time with no cuffs.

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That must be nice. They definitely cuffed me tight and treated me like shite. Did an illegal search and put me in general population until I was bailed out. I was also polite and respectful.

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height privilege is real
being good looking helps anyone surely

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If a tall dude and a hot girl both sit at a bar, who is getting a drink paid for first? Being tall has nothing on being a hot female. They don’t live in the same reality as the rest of us

My junior year of high school I was riding with a black friend to a basketball game and he was driving. We got pulled over. He wasn’t speeding, no lights out, stickers up to date. Cops come to the door, don’t tell him why they pulled us over, searched the car, made him lie on the ground, made him answer about 50 questions before they let us go, no ticket, not arrested just harassed for no reason. He said it happened to him every couple of months or so.
That’s never happened to me once in my life so I guess that’s what we are talking about

The way I see it is this, in general white people are generally more well off than black folks. They are much more likely to have a father in the household. More likely to live in a neighborhood with a good school system, etc. On the other hand, most black people don't have anything like that, many, especially in the hood do not have a single positive role model that they can look up to.

If you get arrested, and you know you can have yo daddy bail you out in minutes, or you have an uncle who is an attorney. On the other hand, if you're black and you could call multiple people and still not have bail money, and don't know a single person who even knows an attorney.

Or maybe going to college and you can say both of your parents went to college and are very helpful in everything, on the other hand as a black person and you don't have a single person in your family who even made it to college

Privilege in life definitely exists. But contrary to popular belief, not every white person is privileged. In no way at all is a poor trailer park white person, or even a lower middle class white person is privileged over Will Smith kids or LeBron kids

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The way I see it is this, in general white people are generally more well off than black folks. They are much more likely to have a father in the household. More likely to live in a neighborhood with a good school system, etc. On the other hand, most black people don't have anything like that, many, especially in the hood do not have a single positive role model that they can look up to. 

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Is this systemic or due to personal choices?

I had a Kappa Sig sticker on my truck during my sophomore year at South Carolina. For one of my classes that year, I had a study group every week that lasted until around 11:00 or so. It was at a house off campus about 5 miles from the fraternity house. Got pulled over 3 different times that semester. The cops profiled me because I was a frat boy driving at night. They probably assumed I'd had a few.

Simple Answer: White Privilege Explained

White privilege is not:

White privilege is not the suggestion that white people have never struggled.

white privilege is not the assumption that everything a white person has accomplished is unearned


two quick examples of white privilege:

White privilege is being able to move into a “nice” neighborhood and be accepted not harassed, made to feel unwelcome, or prone to acts of vandalism and hostility.

Products white people need for their hair being in the aisle labeled “hair care” rather than in a smaller, separate section of “ethnic hair products.”

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part of white privilege is the power to remain silent in the face of racial inequity



Jane Elliot asking what I'd like to ask the OT

edit: spelling

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Products white people need for their hair being in the aisle labeled “hair care” rather than in a smaller, separate section of “ethnic hair products.” 

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Then people would be bitching because they couldn't find the "ethnic hair products" among all of the "hair care" options.

If I give you people an inch, you take a foot. Then a mile. I will not even agree on the premise.

Find better neighbors and shop at better stores.

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But I'm white and was harassed by cops a bunch when I was in high school. Was even beat the shite out of when I was a Junior. Just saying what you described is not exclusive to black people. Maybe more common but my white privilege didn't bail me out of those instances.

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Same. I've had my arse beat by 3 large black Memphis PD's when I was young and dumb at Memphis in May.

I've been pulled over, done every single thing the officer asked of me, and been taken to the station for not being able to find my fricking insurance card.

Me and my high school buddies have been lined up on the ground and cuffed for an hour because we were "suspected" to have alcohol.

Been given a ticket that apparently I wouldn't have gotten because "I was rude." I wasn't saying shite. The guy was obviously green.

But I'm a white guy so I've never attributed any of those to race. If I were black I probably would have attributed them all to race.

The reality is we've all had experiences with a-hole cops. Hell, half the cops where I live are black.