Current Events > Is 'white privilege' just wealth privilege?

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Given her wealth, the Oklahoma Legislature declared her to be a white person, so that she would be allowed to travel in first-class accommodations on the railroad, as befitted her position.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Rector
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nope, apparently the poorest white person has unwarranted privilege when compared to the richest black person.
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monkmith posted...

nope, apparently the poorest white person has unwarranted privilege when compared to the richest black person.

This white thug got his child killed by ramming the police with him in the car, and whites nationwide took his side instead of siding with the black officers. The media tried to spin a story about one of the cops "stalking" the child's mom to make it look like he tried to murder the husband out of jealousy or something. Bottom line, he knew them and knew that the father was abusive. Even half this article is about the cops and making the thug seem like a victim.


http://klfy.com/2017/04/09/chris-few-man-at-center-of-trial-involving-marksville-deputies-arrested-saturday-on-domestic-violence-charges/

National media is not running with this story since it shows the side of the man that the cops knew, and basically proves the cop's story about how he got his son killed. Even googling his name just brings up stories about the boy and the smear on the black cop instead of articles about the man himself and his criminality.

They don't seem wealthy to me. We've seen the same situation a thousand times with the race reversed and most people side with the police.
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monkmith posted...

nope, apparently the poorest white person has unwarranted privilege when compared to the richest black person.

I saved a reddit comment a while back because it did a good job of dissecting this whole thing:

White privilege isn't some thing where every white person is born with a silver spoon in their mouth (although because of family history, land ownership there are greater chances of wealth being passed down for some non immigrant families)

I think it's more just, for the most part, not being negatively judged by your skin color when searching for employment, dealing with police. If a fictional character is white, it's just a character, if the character is black/asian/etc, you're making a statement.

It's not that it's easy to be white, it's hard to be human in general, it's just you don't have certain flavors of extra bullshit.

Whether it's looking like you're up to no good because you're black and wearing a hooded sweater, not having to prove your ethnicity if you don't like certain things (you're the whitest black dude I know, you don't even like hip hop), not really thinking racism is still a big deal because it doesn't often enter your personal space etc.

Edit: Additionally, growing up in America means that you also had to grow up mostly watching white men/women/culture in TV/Movies. So much so that I literally had to explain to several white kids that anime characters are usually asian. I guess I had the break dancing black power ranger with a gun, Barret and the burn victim demon Spawn, but there were slim pickings being a black nerd and trying to see yourself/find a costume.
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