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

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313. Of course white privilege exists

But you have to be well off to a certain degree to consider it. Try finding an audience for White Privilege lectures in the guy standing knee deep in a ditch, shoveling shit for the same minimum wage as his black brother shoveling beside him. Worrying about having the money to buy next week's groceries, or to keep the power from being turned off, or to pay for his child's medicine, just like his black brother next to him. Telling him he won't be looked at as funny when he goes in the dollar store, or be treated more politely by the cop who pulls him over (even though he's driving his clunker as carefully as possible to avoid a ticket he can't afford), or get better service in restaurant he won't be going to anyway because he doesn't have the money, or how the railroads were built on the back of slave labor, means nothing to him in his day to day life of just getting by.

That's if he has a job at all.

And things just get worse with each passing day as income disparity widens as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and more and more join him in his predicament. So can we give at least as much attention to class and wealth distribution as color? When his and his family's bellies are full and they have medical care and he's not worried about being evicted, he might be more receptive to academic discussions of White Privilege in history. He might even pay more attention to the gazes of those dollar store clerks.