Posted by cccp1014 on 6/1/2018 4:28:00 PM (view original):
Posted by bad_luck on 6/1/2018 4:27:00 PM (view original):
It doesn’t.
To me that is what I thought you meant. I agree there are definitely biases out there. Even the people who are the least racist probably want their kids to marry withing their own race. I won't argue human nature with you. My parents implored me to marry another Jew.
I hate to break it to you, but someone who worries about the race of their child's future spouse isn't in the "people who are the least racist" group.
People who aren't racist don't care what race their future son or daughter-in-law is.
Institutional racism isn't a grand conspiracy or (necessarily) an official position. It's bias, often unintended, that puts blacks at a disadvantage. Judges who tend to sentence blacks to longer prison sentences might not realize they are doing that. Hiring managers might not realize they tend to avoid hiring blacks. Cops might not realize that they are more afraid when encountering a black person than a white person.
Whether or not the racism is intentional, not having to deal with that still gives white people an advantage in life. Hence, white privilege.
That doesn't mean that all whites have easy lives or that some whites don't face some other sort of discrimination, it just means that a white person in a given situation (smart, stupid, fat, skinny, ugly, disabled, single-parent household, etc) has less of an uphill battle than a black person in the same situation.
6/1/2018 4:51 PM (edited)