I'm surprised how many DU'ers think aknowledging white male privilege is somehow bigoted

[CreekDog]

82. ask yourself whether being poor, gay, disabled, etc. would be easier or harder if not white

in general, by statistics, by many anecdotes...

yes, if you're homeless or disabled, white or black, it sucks, all the way around, nobody denies this.

but even if you can't imagine that it could be harder to escape a dire predicament because of one's race --if one is white, there are fewer barriers from society to escaping.

but why should this surprise you?

White Male Privilege was in the constitution for a century, was the law in much of the country for between 1 100 and 200 years...

Did you think that as White Male Privilege was taken out of the constitution and out of the law, that it was just magically gone forever at that moment?

Are you so naive that you think that in the Jim Crow south, where laws enforced White Privilege, do you think that 50 years later --that it's gone?

Are you serious?