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In reply to the discussion: "Wednesday was the worst day of my life…" [View all]MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)If a system of white racism, built and maintained by whites and working for the behalf of all whites (at the expense of anyone who isn't white), not only emphatically but implicitly as well... What else would you call the very THING that it confers upon its beneficiaries? That's why "white privilege" is an acceptable title for it.
When the word of two white children have more sway, whether they're telling either lies based on blatant stereotypes or the truth, over that of an innocent grown black man to the police
Who's the actual beneficiary of privilege here?
White privilege impelled the police to act accordingly in an accusatory way against the neighbor, based solely of the word of 17YO white babysitter, AND it made the word of a 4YO little white girl more actionable than that of a black man's, who was handcuffed while declaring his own innocence under questioning. There was no proof against him other than the word of the babysitter, but that didn't matter, did it?