This is for those who don't think there is any such thing as White Privlege

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81. I don't think that experiment proves any sort of white privilege

I'm certainly not asserting that there is any particular benefit to being black.

However, there is also no particular benefit to being white.

I would use Bellamy's analogy. From "Looking Backward" page 3

"compare society as it was then to a prodigous coach which the masses of humanity were harnessed to and dragged toilsomely along a very hilly and sandy road. The driver was hunger, and permitted no lagging, though the pace was necessarily very slow. Despite the difficulty of drawing the coach at all along so hard a road, the top was covered with passengers who never got down, even at the steepest ascent. Theses seats were very breezy and comfortable. Well up out of the dust, their occupants could enjoy the scenery at their leisure, or critically discuss the merits of the straining team ..."

Some ride and some pull. It is a privilege to ride. White skin doesn't get you a free ride, unless you won the birth lottery and got a very rich set of parents. Most white people though, did not win that lottery and have to slog and pull just like everybody else.

Of course, life is not so simply divided between just riders and pullers. There are various gradations between jobs. Some are paid well with good benefits and room for advancement, and others not so well. But again, white skin does not help you rise to the top. There are still many, many white people down at the bottom.

See this thread seems to be proclaiming the reverse - that white people have some advantage in society that others do not have, so would a group of black people be eager to "turn white" if they could? A group of females be eager to "turn male" if they could?