Can Someone Please Explain to me What White Privilege is?

That's it, really. Can anyone give me a detailed, long-form explanation of White Privilege? Lots of specifics, please.

I've only ever heard this term in the last decade, and I never imagined that I was living under such a policy. People say the phrase a lot recently, but I rarely hear any specific explanations of it.

 

It's the privilege people who aren't considered, or don't self-identify as "not-white" have, to be the perceived cause for everything/all things, "Bad".

 

No description, but these pretty much sum up my opinion. I was poor growing up, so white privilege is a foreign concept to me.

 

From Wiki:

According to Peggy McIntosh, whites in Western societies enjoy advantages that non-whites do not experience, as "an invisible package of unearned assets".[1] White privilege denotes both obvious and less obvious passive advantages that white people may not recognize they have, which distinguishes it from overt bias or prejudice. These include cultural affirmations of one's own worth; presumed greater social status; and freedom to move, buy, work, play, and speak freely. The effects can be seen in professional, educational, and personal contexts. The concept of white privilege also implies the right to assume the universality of one's own experiences, marking others as different or exceptional while perceiving oneself as normal.[2][3]
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My definition; the inability, whether purposely or naively, to be able to see the concerns of non-whites in regards to differential negative treatment in our society as having a valid bases, regardless of one's inability to perceive it directly.

 

Eddie Murphy shows the two faces of America
White Like Me
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/white-like-me/n9308

 

Different individual persons have certain privileges that other certain individual persons do not have. And visa versa. There are so many factors involved and so many privileges involved that no one group, or one person, has all the privileges. Use what you have to the best of your ability and assist those less fortunate than you. To assign a label to someone because you are envious of them is very evil.

 

Having 2 parents

 

. . . who are married and live together.

 

True I should have been more specific

 

Bam!!! =)

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. And people want to blame the root cause on systemic racism when the root is as simple as this...kids from broken homes statistically are at an instant disadvantage. From a general lack of a strong male influence(mostly) to less financial stability in the home....you just can't BLAME that on anyone except the people who choose to have kids before marriage. Its a cultural problem, which turns into a societal problem, which adds a burden on ALL of us. Don't have babies if you can't AFFORD to have babies. It is VERY simple.

 

See recent thread:

http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/white-privilege-is-a-crock-just-look-at-mine.511035/

No reason to repeat oneself on everything, but since then Charlottesville has happened. So to add: White privilege is mowing down peaceful protestors with a car and getting the benefit of the doubt that the action was provoked.

 

Yes. There are people who can't provide an opinion on what White Privilege is, because they have nothing in their experience that relates to it. Others do have it, and don't realize it. But there are others who can talk about the impact. For example, if you ask a black person who grew in the Jim Crow era, they will certainly have a lot to talk about.

I can talk from my own experience. In the Jim Crow era, my grandparents went to white-only schools. And so did my parents. So they were the privileged ones. They received great education which blacks had not access to. As a result, my siblings and I grew up in a pretty "intellectual" environment. Ever since I remember, we played games like Boggle and Scribble, which increased our vocabulary. We played Pinochle, Cribbage and many others that increased our math abilities. In many instances, like during long trips in the car, to keep us quiet, our parents would tell us stories from history or antique legends. We played trivia-like games constantly. So we were always reading a book to keep up. As a result, it was easy for us to get into a good University, and we all graduated and obtained good jobs. It was relatively easy for us. We had all the advantages.

Most Blacks didn't enjoy the privilege of having parents educated in good school. So this story is very rare among them. And that's why today, most universities will allot a certain number of spaces, and the government provides scholarships, ... There is a lot of talent that was being lost. Just because I had that privilege, and they didnn't

 

Made up bullshit to help politicians win elections

 

This ain't those times anymore

Laws like affirmitive actions need to be rescinded, they are causing more anger and volatility than they are helping with. Most black people are literally taking zero action themselves to make things better, they are simply getting angry, burning things down and becoming more and more violent.

THe parent thing is over 50% of it to me and the fact that you blame every single thing on white priveliged is a joke, no body believes or cares about that anymore.

The actions of Antifa and BLM are making the non racist people simply throw their hands in the air, then of course they are called racist, so they REALLY throw their hands in the air

 

Neither did I.
Find another crutch

 

I perhaps don't understand it because I've never been one to consider myself to be part of a greater social class or even to be normal. In fact, in regards to the latter, I don't even consider it something we ought to strive for.

I'll try to look into the effects she claims exist professionally, educationally, and personally as this excerpt doesn't go into much detail about that.
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You don't make it sound like a privilege at all.

 

It means I was born white and I will never forgive my parents for that fact.

 

I have to agree that the issues Golem has mentioned--which certainly were legitimate issues--have all been addressed, at least legally.

What examples of White Privilege can anyone provide from within, say, the last 50 years?

 

What about the white privilege of the victim? Shouldn't she have a "get out of coffin free" card?

 

That's exactly the way I feel about this. There are so many different forms of discrimination and prejudice that it's absurd to say that just because you're white, you're in unable to grasp the concept of being a victim of discrimination, and that's all White Privilege seems to be.

 

Oh yes they are. How many black people in this country do you know whose grandparents and parents went to white-only schools?

What does "blame" have to do with anything I wrote?

This is the typical Sean Hannity strawman. Too easy to spot those who get their information exclusively from wingnut media.

 

My favorite "idiotism" is that you can't be racist if you are not white. Idiocracy at it's finest.

 

But I did!

You have proven my point.

I can give an informed opinion about white privilege because I enjoyed it, and you can't.

 

I can't consider that a fair assessment at all. From what I've seen, there's been far more sympathy and support shown towards the victim than toward the perpetrator. I'm not sure what your referring to with this statement.

 

100% of the problems black people in America face today are self induced