Can someone explain “White Privilege”

In America you are only limited by your own laziness. If you are black and squeek through school you will be handed college money. I worked my behind off to go to college and when I asked why I couldn't get any scholarship money with a 4.0 GPA working 6 days a week while dolts that barely graduated and smoked weed all day were handed free money for tuition my guidance counselor said, and I quote:

"Because you are white you will get nothing. If you were anything else I could direct you to one of many full ride opportunities".

That is reality. Being white puts a hand brake on your life while being black gives you a spring board. It is just too bad most are too lazy to take advantage of it.

As opposed to no job

40% of Baltimore high schools have zero students proficient in math. But I’m sure many know the difference between 9 and 7.62 mm.

Wit is clearly not vested in everyone.

I made that statement because you are wrong that black disadvantage is not connected to white privilege. "Disadvantaged" in relation to whom; "privileged" by comparison with whom? They are the counterpoint to each other.

With privilege comes obligation. Your Dad had both the privilege and obligation of serving in the military, paying his taxes, raising his family, paying his bills. Most liberals would call him privileged.

The more honest one will call you deplorable.

Nothing provokes pages on a thread on this site like the subject of race. Most of it proves white privilege while striving to do the opposite.

Go ahead trade places. Im sure it would be a cake walk for you.

Generational wealth is very rare and very few people will have it as a safety net.

Straight white males are oppressed. The only group more oppressed is straight Asian males. 0 DEI quotas filled

White privilege gives way to white victimhood with any attempt to even the playing field.

Cries of “how dare you take away my advantage, it’s unfair” heard far and wide.

Oppression requires an Oppressor. Who’s the Oppressor? Is it the Government that’s dominated by straight white males? You can’t oppress yourself. 🤡

Companies having programs only for DEI groups?

European cultures are superior to tribal warlord cannibal cultures. Japanese culture (a country never colonized) is also superior. There’s a reason why certain groups dominated the world and why others were dominated - more intelligent populations that led to world-changing inventions.

And prior to 1968 the country had “programs” that enslaved and robbed people of basic civil rights.

Your candy ass not getting your preferred job isn’t quite the same thing.

Leaving aside the usual logical fallacies about white privilege not existing because some white people face adversity and some minorities get assistance...

A friend of mine has a good illustration of how systemic barriers can persist even if no one is out there "oppressing" people. In college, he had a summer job doing door-to-door sales. One day, someone who answered the door (and didn't buy anything) asked if he'd like a glass of cold water. He'd been out in the sun all day, and was grateful for it. Later, he mentioned this to his co-workers. They said, "Oh yeah, that usually happens a couple of times a day. It's great." My friend had been doing the job all summer, and this was the first time it had happened to him.

None of the individual home owners who *didn't* offer him water were racist for not offering him water. There's no expectation that anyone should offer random passing salespeople water. I certainly don't. But the fact is that his experience in this particular job, as a black man, was different from the experience of all his white co-workers. Not getting a glass of water is not a hardship and didn't affect his path through life, but it illustrates the way that skin color can affect your experience in ways that are totally invisible to others and don't require any explicit racism (not that there's a shortage of that out there too, as this thread so nicely illustrates).

You just claimed whites are oppressed. They can’t be “superior” and oppressed at the same time. Your personal racism has you twisted in knots. Grow up 🤡

You were given poor advice by your guidance counselor, there are plenty of schools that would have given you merit aid. My white middle class son (too much to get any Fafsa) was granted generous aid from mid tier state schools in the Midwest and mid Atlantic and a few private schools in the northeast.

My experience is that guidance counselors direct students to the most prestigious schools because it looks good for them and the school district.

Why is this so hard for some of you white people to understand? Do you not know any people of color at all? Have you never talked with them?

Do you just not believe that police treat minorities differently (worse) than white people?

Do you just not believe that minorities are profiled by police?

Do you just not believe that minorites are followed more in stores by security?

Do you just not believe that it's harder for a black person to hail a cab than it is for a white person?

Do you just not believe that very often a white person will cross the street if they see a black person coming their way?

Do you just not believe that minorities have been discriminated against regarding housing and employment and entrance to certain restaurants and membership clubs?

White priviledge doesn't mean you've had everything handed to you. It also doesn't mean a white person needs to feel White Guilt. I don't. I didn't do all the evil things white people in the past did. But, at the same time, I DO recognize that centuries of discrimination against minorities in this country hasn't gone away.

Learn this.