One of the factors that has made black poverty so entrenched is through a systemic system of laws and of violence (white race riots) towards black property owners and businesses and homes and communities that destroyed wealth and the ability to pass it to their children and so on. So as a community - whites (in general) have not had to endure that. Poverty has a lot of causes of course, some in our control, some not. But I think that is one example how race was a factor.
Interesting.
But I feel as if black people already have all the tools they need to prosper. But instead of breaking free from victimhood they seem to embrace it.
"White people did X to my ancestors, therefore as a descendant I deserve Y!"
So, where does the privilege supposedly exist?
Do they? Prosperity, more often then is not created in a rags to riches story, though that does happen, it really isn’t that common. A lot of wealth is created and passed down, and grown through generations, and that includes not just dollars but property. What happens when that is routinely destroyed and every generation has to start all over again?
Two examples: race riots, that targeted
thriving black communities and destroyed them. In an era of segregation, they would have little recourse to justice.
The other example is that black property was much more likely to be targeted for public projects and infrastructure, often without compensation or inadequate compensation. Again, destroying accumutated value that might have been passed on.
And when poor or middle class black communities are more likely to be targeted then poor white communities, isn’t that an example of white priveledge?