Explaining white privilege to a broke white person

[Man from Pickens]

82. We have a problem-sans-solution issue here

Note all the complaining about "white privilege" contains absolutely zero proposals for any solutions. Not even a hint of a direction as to what might be the solution. It's a problem designed not to be solved.

For anyone seriously concerned about institutional racism (a much more accurate and less offensive term to the concept being discussed), there's no more sensible goal than ending the War on Drugs, with its police state violence and criminal injustice pseudo-slavery machine. There's a well-defined target with a clear solution: repeal the laws that enable the targeting-under-law of black Americans and the government violence perpetrated against them across the spectrum of disparate enforcement and mass incarceration.

Wrongs being done disproportionately to black people do not a privilege make for non-blacks. That, to me, is what is really offensive here - the idea that, if we were to completely eliminate this alleged privilege, it would somehow be reasonable to have violence and mass incarceration perpetrated against everybody equally - as if that is some solution.

That's no solution. The solution to injustice being done to some is not in any way to do that same injustice to everybody else - and that is precisely what the use of the term "privilege" implies.