Charles Barkley says theres a reason Blacks do not get the benefit of the doubt. Respect is earned, not just given.
Change culture.
White privelege is being able to find your name on a keychain in the store.
Let’s not be so selective in our comparison examples. Bear Brown was shot by a police officer after Brown attacked him in his car and then charged at him outside the car.
The scrawny homeless autistic kid in Riverside, Ca. was beaten to death on the street by five rabid animals posing as police officers while he cried out for his father to come save him. The kid’s face did not look human after the beating and he died.
The black Mr. Brown deserved to be shot and in comparison, it was a merciful death. The white autistic kid did not deserve to be beaten and it was a horrifically painful death.
White privilege means getting passed over for opportunities in favor of folks not nearly as qualified or interested.
It’s a group identity thing... there’s an expectation that a fairly high number of white people are good - honest - and mostly trustworthy. There’s exceptions of course - go to any prison or jail to see violent white inmates. But overall not that many prison inmates are white in comparison to their share of the population.
There also an expectation that a fairly high number of blacks are dishonest, violent and untrustworthy. There’s exceptions - many - maybe most... . But go to our prisons, jails, and half way houses and they’re filled with blacks. Blacks who have ‘earned’ that place in prison. Considering blacks are only 13% of the population they are wildly over represented in the prison system.
That’s a real problem. Blacks earn their group identity by the actions of a large number of underclass thugs. People like Leonard Pitts Jr unfairly carry the stain of a violent black underclass. Pittman as an individual doesn’t want us to ‘see’ his group because his group’s not respected. White criminals benefit from a white group’s positive identification that they haven’t earned... the opposite of what Pitts has to deal with... an identification he hasn’t earned... but a negative one. In an absolute sense of justice - if each person was an island - Pitts would be right.
Pitts wants the easy way out - shame people into NOT seeing the world as it is... Insist that each man’s an island. - Buy into the PC race card solution. Demand that all people ONLY see ‘the tree’ and never the forest.
It won’t work. It’s not how how humans are wired. There are solutions - this isn’t one of ‘em.
Bottom line: It’s good to be a white man. So thankful.
Any so called “white privilege” can be easily explained by the Bell Curve.