Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

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224. Um, you apparently didn't understand my argument.

There is nothing I can do about that.

Your hypothetical bears no relationship to anything I previously stated. This is the lack of understanding to which I refer.

To play your game, as to what would change if white people became immediately colorblind, enormous opportunities would open up for black people in all types of major and minor ways. However, the legacy of almost 400 years of racism that strongly limited opportunity and mobility long after the end of slavery will not change things overnight.

It won't change things for quite awhile, because the black underclass created by that 400 years, and segregated by federally-supported housing codes into ghettos, will continue to be ignored, and the cycle of poverty will be repeated over and over again, except for the small number that learn a path out.

What white privilege discussions are about are education for white people, to let them understand how they are complicit in maintaining institutional racism by denying blacks the same considerations for opportunity, success, and failure, that they enjoy themselves. This, in turn, would hopefully create a more empathic white population that would make a great effort to embrace their fellow citizens, and create public policy that would do more to help all poor people get the supports they need to get a quality education and opportunities for good-paying jobs. That might change things, and make actual progress.