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

White privilege is waking up on a Sunday morning after being uptown all night. Smoking bud. Drinking draft beer. Smash. Hit buds on clear view. Next thing you know it’s 3:30. Go to a 24 Hour bar in Kenner by your folks house just cuz. 6 am. Pops is calling and he’s mad. Go home. Eat the shite. Sleep till 10. Wake up. Eat the shite again and go smoke a bowl while moms at church.

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Black people aren't white so they couldn't possibly understand white privilege.


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The ones with traditional white sounding names get more callbacks then the ones with traditional black sounding names. Not talking about the seven syllable names that people make fun of. Traditional black sounding names such as Jamall, Jiwan, Dwayne, Shamika vs the likes of Bradley, Cody, Mary Helen, Karen, David .

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If I was black and I felt this tl be true, then I wouldn't name my kid something like that.

I also wouldn't resist arrest if I felt like the police may kill me.

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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.

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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That’s called “enjoy the benefits of being financial successful in life”. Wealth and perks knows no race.

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Having your dad not abandon you

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Is that "privilege"? Or is it (for your friend) an unfortunate consequence of the law of probability and the actions of other people of his same race?

I, like you, have similar black friends. One of the couple is employed in a prominent position. They are terrific people. They are a wealthy family. Their children are great, intelligent, respectful kids who would (or at least should) be the envy of any family, regardless of race. They live in a wealthy neighborhood which is predominantly white. The neighborhood is largely safe from violent crime, but it does have it's issues with burglaries/theft. Statistically, 99% of the burglaries that have taken place in the neighborhood have been committed by black males. That includes a burglary of their home. That's not prejudice or racism. It's simply just a fact.

Now their oldest son would never consider breaking into a home/car to steal something. But they worry about their son being "profiled" by police for simply walking down the street. I understand that fear. But is he profiled simply because he has black skin? Or is he profiled because the overwhelming majority of the crime in that particular neighborhood is committed by persons of his same race and age?

A police officer who personally knows the kid would readily tell you that he is a great kid, from a good family, who poses no threat to the neighborhood. But what about the officer that doesn't know him? That officer is asked to patrol the area and try to stop crime from occurring. All he is armed with is basic facts of that particular neighborhood. That is, the residents are predominantly white and the crime that is committed therein is overwhelmingly perpetrated by young black males. So if that officer happens to come upon the kid while walking the streets what is he to think is the MORE PROBABLE reason the kid is there? That he lives in the neighborhood (which would make him an outlier relative to the neighborhood demographics) and is simply out for a walk? Or, that he is a potential burglar, as he fits the description of the demographic that commits the overwhelming majority of crime in the neighborhood?

So is the "privilege" a white kid who lives in the same neighborhood has born simply out of the color of his skin? Or is it born of of the statistical probability that he is not likely to commit a crime? That is, his "privilege" is afforded to him because others who look like him don't have a history of committing crimes in the neighborhood?

Or to put it another way. Is the burden the black kid faces simply born out of the color of his skin? Or is it terribly unfortunate consequence born out of the misdeeds of others who look like him?

So what you might call "privilege", others might call the benefit of the doubt based upon prior facts