White Privilege?

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(07-11-2018, 02:01 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yes.  It is  privilege to be able to go to any city you want to and not have to worry about racial profiling.

Except that I do, if I go to a city or town that is majority black.

(07-11-2018, 02:01 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't point out the disproportionate control of power and wealth as the "result" of white privilege (although that could very well be the case).  Instead I point out the disproportionate control of wealth and power to show that white people have the power to turn their racism into oppression. 

Theoretically, they CAN turn their racism into oppression (to which I would argue would be next to impossible in America), but that still does not prove the existence of white privilege.

(07-11-2018, 02:01 PM)fredtoast Wrote: If white people didn't control so much of the power to hire, promote, fire, give contracts, approve loans, and so on then racism would not be as big of an issue.

So, if black people or hispanics or whatever controled much of the power to hire, promote, fire, give contracts, approve loans, and so on there'd be a lot less racism? It sure sounds like you're saying whites are MORE racist here.