(06-03-2020, 07:26 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(06-03-2020, 07:06 PM)JagJohn Wrote: Obviously all of those people were capable of succeeding in life. Everyone is capable of succeeding. But some people have fewer obstacles that they need to overcome, and some people have more. 

I assume we can agree on at least one form of privilege. A child born to very wealthy parents has a far greater chance of what we typically call "success" than a child born to parents in poverty. That is privilege of wealth. We can agree on that basic point right?

The idea of white privilege can be expressed as this: if you were to take two children, raised them identically in the same conditions, but one had black skin and one had white skin, the black child would have more obstacles to overcome than the white child would to achieve 'success'. Obviously, in this case, that obstacle is racism.

To be clear, white privilege does not mean this person will succeed, or that person will not succeed. There are obviously many more things that factor in, and many of them are massively more significant than skin colour.

I know you will not agree with me, because you deny that racism is still a problem in American society. If you don't recognize that racism exists, you obviously will not recognize that white privilege exists.

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