This Is White Privilege

[denilson200]

Racism is not an angry thing. It's a system. They don't say "We only want upper middle class whites at Cambridge or Oxford or Harvard uni" but they create a system which pretty much ensures that. So when you see black people in high numbers jail, out or work, shot, homeless, that's the system of racism working as it should.

Couple of other things. Whites benefit from racism, psychologically and often materially. This causes them to turn a blind eye, to make excuses. Also the press, universities, scientific journals, museums, schoolbooks are controlled by whites, so they control what ppl think is the truth.

Racism makes you blind to racism and allows whites to live in a racist society and not notice. It seems “normal”. Blacks have twice the unemployment rate of whites? There must be something wrong with blacks. Whites live in neighbourhoods that are over 90% white? It is natural to want to live with one’s own.

No they certainly don't say "We only want upper middle class whites at Cambridge or Oxford or Harvard uni" because those establishments need to hit a quota, this is why Asians with near perfect grades were recently told by Harvard "Too bad dudes, we've reached our Asian quotas, come back when you're Hispanic, Black, Indian, or something else"....is THAT helping white people? It's certainly not helping Asians.
Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans - WSJ


Are you going to give specific examples or are you just going to list things? Psychologically I'm benefitting from racism....how? Materially? Life is not like when Eddie Murphy got in white face and for the SNL skit to figure out the "White people give other white people stuff for free"....that's called satire


Why do YOU think blacks have higher unemployment than whites? I am interested in what you attribute that to other than the catch all "racism"...what specifically leads to that?

I just did give you specific examples of racism.

All white people benefit from racism.

Why ? Because you can't have a down without an up. If someone is getting the door slammed in there face, then others must be getting a pass. anyone who argues that white privilege does not exist must also argue that racism does not exist.

These benefits for whites can be

Material (such as greater opportunity in the labour market, or greater net worth, due to a history in which whites had the ability to accumulate wealth to a greater extent than persons of color)

Social (such as presumptions of competence, creditworthiness, law-abidingness, intelligence, etc.)

Psychological (such as not having to worry about triggering negative stereotypes, rarely having to feel out of place, not having to worry about racial profiling.)

If blk people are the targets of discrimination, in housing, employment, the justice system, or elsewhere, then whites, by definition, are being elevated above those persons of color.

The fact that white privilege exists and that all whites have access to various aspects of it, does not, however, mean that all whites are wealthy, or that in competitions for jobs and other opportunities, whites will always win.

But on balance, whites have a head start