"White Privilege" is BULLSHIT. Change my mind.

@GreensCornbreadYamz Wrong

@GreensCornbreadYamz How so? I can name a lot of privileges minorities have over me due to affirmative action. Name me one privilege that I have due to an actual LAW over a minority. I'll wait.

@strongbow in what material ways do you feel disadvantaged? and yes, i'm really asking because i want to know the answer

@kate21 In the workplace, they'll give the job to a black male or asian woman before it goes to a white male, or even female..and ive seen it plenty of times. I seen white males get layed off much more than women or blacks or asians when they were just as qualified or even more qualified....corporations are the worse cause of the backlash they face if they "discriminate", many corporations have laws where they have to hire a set amount of blacks asians and even women, even if they're less qualified......white males are constantly being ridiculed or looked down in the media/TV as idiots, that cant do as well as a woman...

@JohnTaylor It would be totally perverse if the law favored whites over blacks because everyone knows (even though it seems to be a popular trend to pretend to be ignorant of it) that white is the dominant race in the US today. Whites make more money than blacks, they hold better jobs, they perform better in school, they are incarcerated at a lower rate, they have more stable families. Now what laws are that because of? The laws that made black people slaves, that said escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners, that created a poll tax that made it more difficult for poor blacks to vote, that created separate public facilities for blacks, do you need any more specific laws? I think you should get the picture. Sure, those laws aren’t on the books anymore, but their effects are still being felt.

@JP1119 Less blacks also graduate from high school. Explaining why they make less. No one is preventing blacks from graduating high school or telling them not to. It's just not happening. There's a lot of whites living in those same conditions and communities too. Are they anymore privileged than the blacks? No. The fact of the matter is that if you don't want to be permanently poor in America then all you have to do is A: Graduate from highschool B: Get a job and C: Don't have kids before you are married. No one is preventing black people from doing all those things. No one is forcing the single mother epidemic on the black community. No one is making the black community commit a disproportionate amount of crime. It's just not happening.

@JohnTaylor [quote]Less blacks also graduate from high school[/quote] Because their parents were less able to help them with school, because they didn't get good educational opportunities, because Jim Crow and slavery.

[quote]No one is preventing blacks from graduating high school or telling them not to[/quote] I'm pretty sure I've read that it actually is common for high school counselors to have lower expectations for black students, which leads them to more commonly advise blacks to just enter the workforce instead of graduating, but admittedly I haven't taken the time to go back and find a source for that. Anyway, blacks are more likely to come from low-income families (which can be traced back to slavery), which results in them having more stress and lower nutrition, which negatively impacts their abilities to learn; furthermore, schools that mainly service low-income or minority communities have unequal access to funding and experienced teachers.

[quote]No one is forcing the single mother epidemic on the black community.[/quote] The problem is not, as you seem to imply, that black women are more likely to be sluts. In many cases the father would be in jail, unemployed, selling drugs, or abusive anyway. Even if the father is a model citizen, single black mothers are way more likely to be poor and uneducated, and being married wouldn't solve those problems. A recent research paper from McLanahan and Jencks says, "Unmarried parents are not that different from married parents in their behavior. Both groups value marriage, both spend a long time searching for a suitable marriage partner, and both engage in premarital sex and cohabitation. The key difference is that one group often has children while they are searching for a suitable partner, whereas the other group more often has children only after they marry." The way to fix those problems then is to provide reasons - educational and career opportunities - to delay motherhood.

And the disproportionate amount of crime is closely linked with the disproportionate amount of poverty, which can be traced back to slavery.

@JP1119 Ok but how long is Slavery and Jim Crow going to be used as an excuse? I'm not saying it isn't a legitimate one but how long is it going to last? How about some personal responsibility for ones choices and ones actions? Slavery and Jim Crow share some blame for the current problems faced by blacks today. However, a lot of what they face now is due to their own choices and their own decisions. No one now is preventing blacks from doing this. I know a lot of black people who HAVE refused to be victims and HAVE overcame their hardships. They have to take the initiative.