this video is tribal
It definitely is not.
White privilege is simply the ingrained differences in the way Caucasians can live in society as compared to a person of color.
It has nothing to do, and I repeat,
NOTHING to do with having to feel guilty or ashamed of being your race; there's no REASON to be ashamed of it. The
ONLY reason people bring it up is because it is important to REALIZE how different your life is from a colored person, given how human races have progressed through history.
This does
NOT mean white people cannot have it hard in life; it definitely does not. But sadly, your skin color in society DOES change some things, such as:
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Your skin color does not work against you in terms of how people perceive your financial responsibility, style of dress, public speaking skills, or job performance.-A black man in urban wear (Don't immediately relate this to sagging) is perceived much differently than a white man in urban wear, often as "thuggish" or more uneducated.
-People are not nearly as blatantly surprised when a white man can articulate well than when a person of color does.
-People do not doubt the validity of white people when they claim to live in wealthier neighborhoods, drive nicer cars, or just own higher quality items. There was a video in which a black man was followed to his house (that he was selling) by a white police officer who did not believe that he could live in a $300,000 house in a decently wealthy neighborhood.
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People do not assume that you got where you are professionally because of your race (or because of affirmative action programs).-This is very common. People assume
not only that a person of color who is accepted into a school/job program with the same credentials as a white person was accepted
solely due to race, but many whites feel as if they are, by default, superior than that person in some quality that was *obviously* overlooked when the position was given to the person of color over them.
For instance, the girl that sued the Ivy Leagues because she felt that minority students were being unfairly accepted over her, when she KNEW that she did not have the grades to get into the school anyway.
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Store security personnel or law enforcement officers do not harass you, pull you over, or follow you because of your race.-This is pretty self-explanatory. Of course, there are no "stats" to back this up because it is not humanly possible to reach inside every officer's brain to see if they are discriminating against some people more than others. But
judging from the rate of incarceration and the amount of times blacks are stopped for seemingly no reason, it is fair to say that this is an issue.
If you truly want to know what people mean by "white privilege," read above, and do some research yourself. If you're going to talk about the length of the post, then there was no hope in explaining it, anyway.
Again,
this is not about being ashamed; you should be glad to have these upper-hands in society without even asking, or wanting, them. I can guarantee you that most black people are likely not perturbed at the fact that you have these "privileges," but that you fail to REALIZE it and how it affects you in society, is all.
And before someone says it,
of COURSE there are situations that don't apply to these scenarios AT ALL. There are many blacks who discriminate unfairly against whites, as well as other races doing the same towards whites. This is simply speaking from an objective perspective in modern-day America.
