I'm a white person who grew up with significant disadvantages, however if I were black...

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142. but the statement is not about two people

"it's tougher being black than being white"

The statement must apply to all 194 million whites (including me) and all 36 million blacks (including my friend the doctor).

So a white guy with a crappy life MIGHT have a slightly less difficult time than a black guy with an equally crappy life. Well, what about all the black guys who have better jobs? Just ignore them? Pretend they don't exist? Don't count?

Telling the 19 million white Americans who are below the poverty line that they have "white privilege" says that they must somehow be better off than the almost two million black families who make over $75,000 a year.

Yes, let's tell the three million white families who make less than $15,000 a year how easy they have it because they are white. That you can write something like this to a white guy with a career as a janitor and factory temp.

"Because this is one classroom in your entire life. One speck of discomfort in an ocean that is your life of privilege. Because white supremacy dictates that your skin -- and let's not forget your maleness -- will make things fundamentally easier for you than for a person (and especially a woman) of color."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olivia-cole/shannon-gibney-teacher-race_b_4378444.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

That I, and millions of white people who have it much worse than me, have lived a "life of privilege" a life that was "fundamentally easier".