42,739,924 American's "below the poverty line"
-18,959,814 white/non-hispanic
-9,472,583 black
This is not a great but still valid example of white privilege.
This attempt of an argument shows pure stupidity. Whites account for 62% of the population. Blacks account for 13% of the black population. Trying to claim that whites account for twice as many people under the poverty line as part of an argument showing that white privilege doesn't exist is as dumb as it gets. If you want to try that argument, you'd have to look at per capita. In doing so, for your argument to have any hint of validity, the white number would need to be almost five times as many as the blacks. (so, about 90 million people, not 19 million people).
White privilege is assuming you just posted a poor argument with little thinking, yet since you have a college degree, you aren't a complete moron.
White privilege would be giving you that benefit of the doubt, while if you had been a black guy, assuming your college degree doesn't really say much because you were granted admission based on quotas/affirmative action standards.
42,739,924 American's "below the poverty line"
-18,959,814 white/non-hispanic
-9,472,583 black
#whiteprivelage
Another example. If you were black, like Fever, people would roll their eyes and use your miserable attempt at spelling "privilege" as proof that you aren't college degree worthy and only have it due to getting breaks because of your skin. As a white person, you are given the assumption that it was just a typo that doesn't represent your intelligence.
Why are on the internet? Why don't YOU take YOUR internet fees and give them to somebody else, since YOU don't deserve the money?
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You clearly don't know what "white privilege" refers to or means.
And anyone that is Appalachian knows white privilege is bullshit. The only color that counts in the USA is GREEN.
Spend weeks driving around with a black friend or family member and tell me how many times you get pulled over or followed compared to usual. Go to a nice jewelry store with some black friends and see how different your experience is.
Take a white person and a black person. Dress them exactly the same to alleviate your belief that money is the only determining factor in this. See the difference in treatment they face.
For those who claim white privilege doesn't exist, it shows a severe (and I can't emphasize that enough) lack of life experiences. It is so blatant at times that anyone denying it exists is either a complete moron, a bigot, or simply lacks experiences outside of a sheltered life.
I witness it personally on a weekly basis, easily. I've been pulled over three times in the last month (once in Oklahoma, twice in rural Texas). Why was I pulled over each time? I am sure it was because of out-of-state plates driving late at night on back roads. Each of the two times in Texas, the officer shook my hand while introducing himself, made quick small-talk, made a bullshit excuse why he stopped me, and was as friendly as could be. If I had a black guy in the car with me, it would have been (and always has been) an entirely different experience.
Now, you're going to say "see, whites get pulled over a lot, too." Having a privilege in one thing (race) doesn't mean you have privilege in everything (economics, state license plates, etc.). Just because I have white privilege doesn't exclude me from the opportunity of not having privilege in other areas (it is referred to as the concept of intersectionality). Having white privilege doesn't exclude you from not having privilege based on economics or if you have a redneck accent. Those things can still exist against you even though you are granted white privilege.
A few nights ago, I went to an Ab-Soul and Nick Grant concert. As I started to go through security, the two guys patting me down jokingly said "are you sure you're here for the right concert?" I questioned why they asked that; was I the only white guy? They confirmed. What did they do? They looked at my ID and didn't pat me down. Every single person before me that I saw had to remove their hat, empty their pockets, and get a decent pat down. I didn't do any of those.
Tomorrow night, I will be at a concert with about 2000 other people. Of those, I will be able to count the number of white people on two hands. Having gone to this venue numerous times, I know they won't have my all access pass waiting for me at will-call with my tickets. Yet, after a brief explanation, the employee will call for her boss, the boss will look at me, and will hand over the all access pass. Yet, the black people in line before and after me who have issues getting their tickets/having the tickets scan at the entrance/etc. won't be afforded the same thing. They will be told to "contact the person who left the tickets for you and have them contact their contact person with the promoter."
At the same concert tomorrow, every single black person who tries going down to the premium seat location will be stopped by an usher and have to show their ticket proving they belong down there. I will walk right past the usher, give a head nod, and won't have to show my ticket (and it isn't from them recognizing me from being there many times before).
Last week, I was at Le Labo, a high-end store in Dallas. I returned a bottle whose pump had never worked. They aren't supposed to return anything after 30 days. I didn't have a receipt, told them I purchased in about three months ago, and that I just hadn't made the time to come to the store. They emptied the contents into a new bottle without an issue. From many experiences being with black friends/family who have similar issues at merchants, things aren't so easy.
I can give countless examples just in my daily life of it. And these are just basic examples of white privilege. It goes much, much deeper with major social structure issues.
