What is "White Privledge"?

[SunsetBengal]

(03-07-2016, 04:29 PM)michaelsean Wrote: The more I think about it, the more I don't like "Privilege" to define something I should expect and in no way feel guilty about.  If a black person is denied the chance to buy a house in a neighborhood, and I do buy that house, that's discrimination against the black person.  That's not a privilege for me.  If a black man can't drive without being pulled over, and I can, that's not a privilege I should be looking to give up.  Again that's discrimination against the black man.  

This discussion has been going on forever, but I guess someone wanted to write a book, and had to coin a phrase to make it seem new.

I feel that you make a good point, about it not being a privilege for white people to expect to be judged according to their merits.  It is unfair for the Black community to call it White Privilege, because Whites get loans easier, are not profiled by law enforcement, not feared by store owners, etc.  If the Black community has a problem with the stigma associated with their ethnicity, then perhaps they should work to reduce the number of fatherless children that end up being raised by the street culture, they should embrace the ideals of society and work to become fully functioning members?  The White people did not force a disproportionate percentage of their people to decide that "working the system" was a good way to live, or that a life of crime was an acceptable livelihood.