Rights and privileges are two entirely different things.

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13. Privelage can be an incredibly subjective standard.

Where privilege is codified into law, as in Jim Crow laws, it's pretty easy to spot and deal with legislatively. When privilege is assumed but not codified into law it is a lot harder to manage. Read that last sentence again. Did you imagine a white person or a person of color making an assumption of privilege? Such assumptions are evaluations about how some not particularly well defined group feels about some other not particularly well defined group.

Racism exists in the United States. It hampers those at whom it is directed economically and culturally. We can make laws that regulate most any economic or cultural activity with a paper trail to conform to a basic standard of fairness. But those on the ground implementing those laws will regularly fall short of that standard. Some will do so maliciously, others because of ignorance or an inability to differentiate between conflicting societal forces. I don't have a solution for that problem, at least not an easy one. Eventually I think people just living in proximity with one another will be the best solution, but that takes a long time.

The greatest danger is not our lack of color blindness, but people who would exploit our differences for their own aggrandizement. Beware people telling you how you are supposed to feel about others. Especially beware people telling you how others feel about you. People like that are not your friends but rather parasites feeding on the tribalistic nature of humans.

A very good OP. Thank you.