(06-03-2020, 08:56 AM)Gabe Wrote: More black people in the NFL = disproving the existence of white privilege. Got it.

I know, simple right?

Again, the major thesis used to advance the idea of white privilege is that black americans are 40% of the prison population but only 13% of the population. Black kids are three times as likely to be suspended from school, white Americans have a 9 to 1 wealth advantage so THEREFOR the only explanation for these disparities is systemic racism. The underlying supposition is that in any economic activity there should be an even distribution to reflect the population @ large. Any deviation from that proportional representation is due to racism, unconcious bias etc. But the above is a common sense example to show that through a purely objective meritocratic sorting of a population u can produce results that are both in good faith and asymmetrical to the population @ large.

Another example is hockey players. I believe close to 50% of all hockey players come from Minnesota. Going back to football an inordinate number of athletes come from Florida California and Texas. this is the same in the general economy.

Moreover, black americans are not a monolith. When u control for family structure the wealth gap evaporates. When you compare Caribbean Americans to native born blacks theres a disparity very similar to the white black divide. Very similar to west Indian blacks. Etc. Are we to assume that white supremacists are so thorough that they check a persons passport or family genealogy before applying invidious standards.

---