Hi there everyone, I'm white...

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201. In what kind of neighborhood? Oh, black. That's more proof of white privilege.

Because cops assume the black neighborhood must be full of drug dealers and prostitutes and that no white person would want to be around a black neighborhood unless they were looking for such. The operative issue there isn't the whiteness of the people being stopped, but the blackness of the people who live there. Cops might find your behavior suspicious because you are white while visiting a part of town they assume you would only visit for illegal reasons, but it isn't because you are white that you are being stopped. It is the assumptions about the black neighborhood that is the reason you are being stopped.

That's why white privilege needs to be posted about every day. Even people who think they understand what is being talked about don't understand what is being talked about. White Privilege doesn't mean you never are at a disadvantage for being white. It means you get to choose that disadvantage, though. Yeah, you'd probably not fit in at certain clubs or concerts. But going to those is your choice. It is your privilege to be able to make a choice of whether to put yourself in that situation or not.

That is a privilege, and until everyone understands what we mean when we say White Privilege, the damn topic needs to be brought up every day. We need to take out billboards, even. Because as several people who to be good and wonderful liberal people on this thread have demonstrated, even the most beautiful souls with the best of intentions don't fully see the issue.