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(37,573 posts)he does not say that he actually did get stopped (like I have many times for "driving while poor"
"It will require empathy."
Does it require empathy for all these people waving around this "white privilege" concept? Do THEY perhaps need some empathy for white people who happen to be poor?
And not just "not-rich". I could be at the 60th percentile and be "not rich". What I am is poor. I wasn't at the 60th percentile, I was at the 16th (or less).
Being poor is NOT a privilege. And yes that does erase the privilege. It means that white privilege is worth about 15 cents in the open market. About all it is worth is that it allows the (usually rich and college educated) white people who believe in it to feel intellectually and morally superior to the (usually poor) white people who for some reason, don't believe in it.
How many rich black people are there? That's not really the question, but in 2002 there were 1.78 million black households with net worth more than $100,000.
At the same time, there were 16.6 million privileged white households with less than $5,000 in net worth.