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In reply to the discussion: "Let's work to end racial discrimination" is a better approach than "whites are so privileged". [View all]El_Johns
(1,805 posts)in the past, when real change occurred?
I'm going to make a prediction. The world as a whole & the US as a consequence, is going to get a whole lot more "multiracial, multiethnic, multigendered". We'll see more and more former "minorities" in positions of power, locally and internationally.
And white people/white men as a "group" are going to be disempowered, in terms of income, income opportunities, standard of living, and access to power. Lose their 'privilege' if you like, regardless of whether they admit the existence of it. It will happen, and it will happen because the actually privileged are creating that new reality by using their power and capital to reshape the world.
The reason is that capital can't rule a multicultural world without a multicultural face, and the face of "white privilege" is only one of the faces available, a historical epiphenomenon.
But things for the majority of people will not get any better as a consequence. Many black Americans, as now, will continue to be poor, oppressed, jailed -- they'll just be joined by more white people. And race will be as divisive a topic as ever, and as much of a problem, just with other labels and other slants.