White Privilege?

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(08-10-2018, 05:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Maybe you shouldn't comment on something you have so little knowledge of.

That's not stopped you. I don't know why it should stop me. 

(08-10-2018, 05:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: There have been multiple studies posted showing that blacks and minorities are treated worse in housing applications, job applications, and profiling by police. 

None of which shows white privilege, only that there are racist people out there.

(08-10-2018, 05:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Since white people are treated better and white people control a disproportionate amount of wealth and power in this country then white people have a privilege.

Again, correlation does not equal causation.

Just because there are more white people with wealth and there are more white people in positions of authority does not mean that white people not in positions of wealth and/or power have some special privilege. Or are you saying white homeless guy is more privileged than Oprah Winfrey?

(08-10-2018, 05:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: If you admit that racism exists.  And if you admit that white people control a disproportionate amount of wealth and power in this country, then you have to admit that there is a privilege to being white in the United States.

No, I do not. Just because I recognize that racism still exists and that I'm the same race as the President of the country and the richest man in the country, doesn't mean all 3 of us share the same privileges.