Police abuse Black political activist as he moves into his own house

[AverageJoe90]

37. " The fact that you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist." There's nothing to see.

'privilege' literally came from words that meant 'private' or 'hidden' 'laws', and that's the way it literally applies to the phrase today. Society has separate and unequal unwritten laws about how white people are treated and how minorities are treated. And given that minorities get the short end of the stick constantly, I see no reason they should be expected to be 'content' in a society that automatically considers them 'suspicious' or 'dangerous' simply because they have a bit more melanin in their skin, one in which they are constantly treated as potential perpetrators by police, while their white counterparts are citizens to 'protect and serve'.

And yet this overly simplistic attempt at an explanation does not at all take into account the fact that wealthy and/or politically connected People of Color are still likely to get off quite a bit better than poor or lower middle class white folks with practically nothing. And, by the way, look at what happened to Cicely McMillan in New York back in 2012. She was "white", basically. And there was no sympathy garnered to her. Because she was a liberal and an activist; her being white(or even a woman!) just didn't matter in that case.

Systemic discrimination(including that which isn't necessarily overt) is a tangible reality. "White Privilege" isn't. White people as a whole don't benefit from the maltreatment of their fellow citizens. In fact, it's actually the opposite, and even history has shown this to us, over and over again. And we can't forget those lessons, or history will end up repeating itself.