I want to talk about white privilege, especially white old lady privilege.

[OneGrassRoot]

37. I'd like to bring this back to a central point...

Since your subject line mentions white privilege, I'd like to bring it back to a core truth:

Regardless of whether or not white people -- of any age or background -- are given warnings, ticketed, or even arrested (which is by far often due to bad behavior) when stopped, the likelihood that an encounter with law enforcement will end in death isn't something most of us worry about.

Hence, one aspect of white privilege. In general (there are always exceptions), white people don't fear that an interaction with police will end in death.

For people of color, even when one's behavior is conciliatory and submissive, that is a VERY REAL FEAR with every single encounter with law enforcement. That's precisely why the knee-jerk reaction of many white people to call the police on people of color (due to their bias and subsequent fears) is deadly.

Unfair tickets and such are just that -- unfair. But it isn't deadly.

Certainly ticketing and other ways the criminal justice system is grossly unfair to people living and often working in poverty can become deadly, for anyone, but the oppression is by far most experienced by people of color across the socioeconomic spectrum.