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White privilege - inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice.

I'll never forget a Nigerian colleague. He was disturbed, he was disgusted even, by the African Americans he saw in his city sitting on welfare, guggling beer like water & doing drugs on the street corners. He, of course, was black himself.

Were these African Americans sitting on welfare cause of white privilege? Or cause gangbangers had glorified crime versus a 9 to 5 job and so kids were flunking school left, right and center? Why put yourself through high school for a minimum wage job, a job that many white kids have done themselves to put themselves through college/university, when you can make a couple hundred (or thousand) a night running drugs? Why put yourself through high school for a minimum wage job, a job that many white kids have done themselves to put themselves through college/university, when you can get pregnant and have the government pay you for having babies while on welfare?

Seriously. That's just an easy example. It's not just blacks. But then if white privilege was real none of them would ever succeed. Yet you've millions of successful non-white business owners, professionals, athletes, etc.

And how can white privilege exist when different ethnic groups in "white" society are discriminated against.

Where I live French (aka "white people") are treated rather poorly. They are harassed, they are discriminated against, and they are subjected to demeaning slurs. If you are French you automatically have a black mark against your name. I remember asking for something at a local bistro & I pronounced the name of a Quebec city as Trois-Rivières instead of "Three Rivers". Behind me came a response "you speak French" with the same contempt of asking did I have an extremely contagious disease from one of the locals who previously were so chummy & friendly.