To get a better understanding of 'white privilege'...a recommendation:
Read the book "The New Jim Crow" by Michele Alexander...
or otherwise come up to speed on
- the long-term social effects of the War on Drugs
- price differences for inner-city crack cocaine vs suburban cocaine
- the 'bail' industry and its impact on the poor
- plea bargaining and the power of the prosecuting attorney
- stop and frisk
- social effects of imprisonment of teens and twenty-somethings on families
I too was a snow-shoveler, leaf raker, paperboy and caddie as a kid, starting at age 12.
But I can now see much more clearly my white privilege. It is not fake news.
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