An interesting exchange about white privilege in the comments of the DWB story I posted earlier

[tea and oranges]

71. I'm not sure we disagree

A more nuanced approach & understanding the background dynamics & ramifications is certainly to your credit, AverageJoe90. Yes, there are many configurations that complicate the lives of minorities. Yes, tokens like the repulsive Clarence Thomas & Herman Cain make bank by insisting that they made it on their own, repeating the conserva-myth that we're post-racial (whatever that means). Yes, class, culture, & gender have much to do w/ discrimination.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about white people & their attitudes. I'm talking about the boss' son at my last place of exploitment talking (loudly) about how he doesn't understand minorities not having jobs, he's always had one. True. All of them handed to him by his white daddy, owner of the company.

I'm talking about the outrageous stories of police brutality against minorities, yet hearing white people say, "They must've deserved it."

I could give you dozens of examples, but I'm sure you know what I mean. It's the refusal to recognize the leg-up, the protections, the advantages anyone w/ white skin has, no matter their place in the social scale. If each & every white person doesn't benefit, white people as a whole do. And that's to the detriment of other people w/ more melanin.