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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
White privilege is a collection of factors and statistics that prove that the American system is more likely to put white people in power rather than other minorities.
A great point that backs it up is the fact that the worst places in America with the most poverty, the least resources and the most violence are primarily black areas with a history of being refused resources over racial discrimination from a time when black people were segregated into these communities away from white people.
Another great point is that minorities are given harsher sentences than white people for the same crimes. To go along with that is the fact that some police stations are literally telling their officers to target minorities over whites to hit quota.
Because of our history of racism white people are more likely to have connections and opportunities from being born in a family that built connections, businesses and opportunities over time while a lot of minorities don't have those some connections because our racist history literally prevented them from doing it. A great example is the fact that there are more white legacy students in college (these are students that were accepted into universities because they are related to alumni of those colleges) than there are black people in college as a whole.
There is also a perceptional bias assuming that minorities are criminals or gang members causing them to be harassed or blamed or stalked in stores. White people in America almost never have to worry about being treated unfairly in stores, restaurants, places of employment, etc. because of their race.
Edit: The first American president that wasn't white was accused of not being an actual citizen and was harassed into providing a birth certificate because of the color of his skin. Even the most powerful person in America is not exempt from the harassment, prejudice and assumptions that white people in this country never have to face. If that isn't a sign of white privilege, I don't know what is.
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Thank you because that's a lot of effort to put in for people who don't care, but don't forget about the history of housing discrimination where blacks were prevented from owning homes in white neighborhoods by unofficial but very real segregation. The prevention of blacks from the kind of wealth afforded by home ownership is important. Not to mention that the ownership opportunities given to them in low income areas had unfair pricing that basically forced them to forgo maintaining their property just to pay their mortgages so that their property values plummeted.