General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Hi there everyone, I'm white... [View all]knightmaar
(748 posts)You're asking questions! That's great! Now answer them instead of using them as rhetoric.
Juries do find black people guilty when they aren't. Yes. We saw video just this week of a cop planting a Taser next to a dead black man, so you can see how that sort of thing can happen.
In Ferguson, police were indeed pulling over, stopping and harrassing blacks even when whites were more likely to have contraband.
And yes, poverty and crime are linked. And it turns out that institutions (like real estate agents) in your country are designed to keep the black people "over there" on the poor side of the tracks where the opportunities are fewer. Do poor white people get the same shitty treatment as poor black people? Good question. Go find out.
But here's the thing: the poster doesn't have to spell out the long, long list of ways that white privilege actually leads to unequal treatment. It. Doesn't. Matter. What matters is that black people are paid less, imprisoned longer, picked on by police more. *That* is the privilege of being white.