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Yes, there IS white privilege

In some areas, of course there is white (aka Caucasian) privilege. Let me count the ways:

1. In murder rates, whites clearly come out on top. They have the privilege of being fewer victims
White on white murder rates are 16%. Black on Black murder rates are 97%.
https://thedispatch.com/article/what-are-the-real-stats-on-black/

2. 72 percent of all black children live in single family homes.
https://newsone.com/1195075/children-single-parents-u-s-american/#:~:text=In%20the%20African%20American%20community%2C%2072%20percent%20of,%2824.3%20percent%29%2C%20followed%20by%20New%20Zealand%20%2823.7%20percent%29.
Only 19 percent whites live in single family homes.

3. Poverty rates show a white and an ASIAN privilege, in that white only families in poverty make up 8.6 percent of the country, same numbers for Asian families. The families with the highest poverty rates are American Indian and Alaskan native at 25% and blacks at 17 percent
https://www.statista.com/statistics/200476/us-poverty-rate-by-ethnic-group/

To break it down, blacks have been the victims of the Democrat welfare state, which has broken up their families and put them in ghettos. As a result, their scholastic achievement is inferior to whites and Asians; their family unit is mostly single parent; their safety in their own homes and neighborhoods is compromised since blacks commit most violent crimes. And because of the single parent thing, blacks live in poverty at the highest numbers.

I don't blame blacks as a race for this. It would be bigoted and racist to suggest that. Had the Democrats targeted whites for the affirmative action, welfare, etc, whites would be at the lower end of this study as well.
There is white privilege and you can thank the Democrats for that.
There IS institutionalized RACISM, and you can thank the Democrats for implementing affirmative Action (which is the JIM CROW of the Seventies).
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fanuc2013 · 51-55, F
The Democrats have to keep minorities down! They wouldn't have a "base" otherwise!
@fanuc2013 WTF?

The Democrats believe in growing the pie. Republicans only want the pie to grow for the rich.
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@SomeMichGuy Do you think rich Democrats want to make other people rich?
@SW-User I think people who understand economic history know that economics isn't a zero-sum game, except in anticompetitive parts of the economy (like airlines and now credit).

I think rich *companies* want to keep the table tilted *their* way, and the rixh generally want that, too.

But it was the previous President who engaged in massive business fraud, and did so to gain unfair advantages for taxes (by UNDERstating values) and loans (by OVERstating values).

He was a Republican, right?

Oh, and he PROMISED to get rid of the "carried interest deduction", wasn't it? Oh, it's for the rich...and it was NOT changed? Surprise...and the Congress AND White House were...Republicans, right?

Oh, and they cut taxes on the top few percent, so that wealth flowed to the top in record amounts...and that was...wait...Republicans.
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@SomeMichGuy What are you trying to say? All you have told me is that you have reason to believe that companies and Republicans don't want others to be rich.

I am asking you about Democrats, rich Democrats. Are they spreading their wealth to the citizens (and non-citizens) of the US, or are they looking to keep it? Do you think they enjoy being rich?
@SW-User I'm not rich and I gave away ≈3/4 of the pandemic stimulus payment in the big check that came im first.

I'm white, I vote Democratic (now exclusively since the Republican fever), I eat, I want others to eat, and I gave a bit to food charities during a time when it was reported that around 30% of Americans were "food insecure".

I've helped build / repair homes in Appalachia.

I've given money to feed a vet travelling on a bus from one VA hospital to another, and to homeless people in need as I found them in various places.

And I direct monthly donations to food charities and others.

And you might want to look at what some very rich people have done; not only John D. Rockefeller, Jr., but Getty, Carnegie, Nobel, David Packard and his family, his partner Wm. Hewlett, Kellogg, the MacArthurs, etc., etc., etc., including Bill & Melinda Gates and the wonderful gal who just endowed the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Yale's alumni/donors stepped up years ago now to change the cost of going there; Stanford has a good program, too.

If I *were* rich, I already have people for whom I'd buy houses, pay for education, etc. I would love to give away hundreds of millions of dollars to help others in targeted ways.

What have YOU done?
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@SomeMichGuy Bill Gates has become richer, and that tells me he only wants more wealth. The "wonderful gal" who donated $1 billion to a medical school in the Bronx did something good, for the doctors who graduate from there and any patients they treat. She must really like the place.

What have YOU done?

I give to children's charities. I have bought homeless people food here and there. My parents died, but my grandfather says "if you start giving to charities you will never stop giving, where will it end?", and so he has never given anything to a charity.