There are 5 million poor white kids in this country. Let's explain white privilege to their parents.

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24. I agree there are disadvantaged White Folk.

People that are beaten down due to wages and class.

However, let's do a hypothetical shall we?

A poor white kid and poor minority kid walk around with hoodies in a neighborhood, who would get stopped by police first?
Who would create an immediate alert?

The name that they get also, particularly the last name creates more positive associations.

A Smith would be given priority over a Mfume.

It is not about the fact that some people have it hard, it is the added crap some minorities have to go through due to such a thing, through inherent prejudices. Where some have to work harder and longer to get to that same level.
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See, it doesn't really make much of a difference on people that poor since they are stuck in their own misery to look beyond themselves sometimes. I give them quite a bit of leeway, I don't really like replying to these things, since I agree that it doesn't really accomplish much, unless when it deals with people like Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney who used social services and are working to strike it down for everyone else that needs it.

However, when I see threads instead complaining about how they feel put out for people mentioning "White Privilege" when it isn't really about "Privilege" per se, but a dumb term mentioning how they don't have to deal with the prejudices minorities get from having an odd name or their ethnicity, and the fact that the corporate world favors anything perceived as Caucasian since it is the corporate culture, and they go by what is familiar; well now that makes me feel like they are missing the point.