Dont all white Americans benefit to one degree or another from white privilege?

[Eliot Rosewater]

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If so, and if that privilege, no matter how big or small, is a by product of institutional racism...then...

Isnt racism a problem ALL white Americans must address?

[FarPoint]

1. I never focused on that... beyond my control.

I do and always defended, supported equal rights for all....

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. White people dont have to focus on it, black people do.

It focuses on them, doesnt it.

[FarPoint]

11. Sure they do...white people have social/ cultural barriers as well.

Get your stereotype head out of the sand.

[kwassa]

12. They do?

Um, who is stereotyping?

[pnwmom]

14. White people have social/cultural barriers, but they don't have the ADDITIONAL

complication caused by being a disfavored race in America.

For example, a black physician is more likely to be stopped in a random traffic stop than a white physician. Black physicians have to give their kids "the talk." White physicians don't.

There isn't a level of success at which black people are as secure as white people.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stanford-minority-drive-disparties-20170619-story.html

Researchers from Stanford's Computational Journalism Lab and the School of Engineering found that black drivers are generally stopped at a higher rate than white motorists, and Latinos are stopped at a similar or lower rate than whites, after adjusting for age, gender, time and location.

After being stopped, black and Latino drivers are ticketed, searched and arrested more often than whites. For example, when pulled over for speeding, black drivers are 20% more likely than whites and Latino drivers 30% more likely than whites to be ticketed. Black and Latino drivers are about twice as likely to be searched compared with whites.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. I might misunderstand your response. What are you saying no to?

[leftofcool]

5. Of course we do.

And that goes for every white person in every country. Racism must be addressed by all white people, especially in the US.

[laserhaas]

6. Just a few years ago, hundreds here, would've said yes.

Pshaw!

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Yes, we do. Even if we may not be conscious of it.

[handmade34]

8. yes and yes....

race is a social and political construct and it's time to confront that


Confronting it is like trying to ask fish to confront water. Or an entrepreneur to confront the damage and inequality that is a necessary consequence of unfettered capitalism. Too often, the response is a personal one. We rationalise a defense on the basis of personal experience. Say something like “I worked really hard to be where I am.”
https://goodmenproject.com/guy-talk/how-travel-made-me-confront-white-privilege/

http://wapo.st/2apLb5t

[JI7]

13. Trump is the biggest example of White Privilege, and particularly, White Male Hetero Christian

privilege.

[ismnotwasm]

15. Yes.

[brer cat]

16. Yes.

K&R