LoneLaugher
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One glaring example to anyone who is the child of a WWII veteran who grew up during the Great Depression is the fact that black veterans were denied GI Bill benefits.....especially those related to home loans.
This led to a disparity in home ownership between white and black veterans that directly impacted wealth building for poor and lower class American men throughout the postwar era.
The chance that a black person born in the 50's or 60's to a US army veteran would have a home to inherit in the 80's or 90's was considerably lower than that of white children of vets.
Thus......the white experience moved to the suburbs.....where property taxes built excellent public schools for white kids to attend. The black kids didn't experience this shift.
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/44333/276173994.pdf
It still applies today. Driving While Black is alive and well in NYC under the Bloomberg administration. DeBlasio is looking to rescind it.
Driving While Black by Charles Epp and Steven Maynard-Moody The Washington Monthly
January/ February 2014Driving While Black
“Stop and frisk” isn’t just a reality in New York City. New data shows how police target African Americans on highways across America.
By Charles Epp and Steven Maynard-Moody
If there’s one issue that won Bill de Blasio the New York Democratic mayoral primary in September, on his way to a crushing 74 percent to 24 percent victory in the November general election, it was his full-throated opposition to “stop and frisk.” Under this policy, police officers stop, question, and frisk people they deem suspicious, usually with zero evidence that they’ve committed a crime. De Blasio’s predecessor Michael Bloomberg and his GOP election opponent Joe Lhota strongly defended stop and frisk, arguing that it helps reduce the crime rate. But the voters of New York had clearly had enough of a policy that, in practice, overwhelmingly targets minorities, especially young blacks, only a tiny fraction of whom are ever found to be carrying drugs, or a gun, or indeed to have done anything wrong at all.
What few Americans (or at least white Americans) know is that stop and frisk is not limited to New York City. Versions of the policy are in place across the country. And just as in New York, whatever crime-fighting benefits derive from the policy come at the expense of contravening basic American principles of equal treatment under the law and of angering law-abiding minority citizens whose support and cooperation the police need to fight crime.
If ever there was an example of current day "white privilege" this has to be it.
If you want to stop violent crime you scrutinize where the violent crime is. If that happens to be among the black community then the qualification of such a stop and frisk program, if done simply by looking at high risk areas, is race neutral. It may have a disparate impact on the black community, but blacks commit a disparate amount of the crime in New York City
(See HERE http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downlo...planning/2013_year_end_enforcement_report.pdf )
So the policy is race neutral. The only privilege whites have here is to be living in an area where black crime is not as effective. But that is hardly an argument for "white privilege." If the privilege you speak of is that whites do not act as deviant as blacks then you should call it "Black self destruction," not "white privilege." White privilege assumes an unearned status. Are you saying that whites have an unearned status due to black deviance? That may be true, but whites did not create that status for whites. Blacks created it for them via "black self destruction."
You stopped being serious. Enjoy your day.
That post was totally serious. Where was it not?
You are ignoring the history of the matter......wrapped in white privilege....that led to the environment that you are citing as the major reason for the disparity in arrests. It is odd...especially since I've already addressed it.