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CMV: "White privilege" gives nowhere near the advantages as money, family status and connections do.

I don't deny that being a minority gives people some disadvantages and that there are still stereotypes and discrimination floating around. However, in recent times we have really done a lot to battle those things and I think people in America for the most part don't discriminate based on race.

What I think is really going on when people spout about"white privilege" is the middle class and up that has more money, more status and more connections that make life a whole lot easier. 

I really don't think you'd find a significant difference in advantages between an upper middle class white family and an upper middle class black family.

In my opinion, people only say white privilege because the middle class is mostly white. In America, minority communities are usually poor and live in inner cities. That itself is a huge problem and has been a problem forever.

I think that if a white person grew in a poor inner city neighborhood, they would have hardly any, if at all, advantages over a black person in that same area.

I believe the real problem is wealth and connections and not skin color. I also think this talk of white privilege just misses the point and doesn't address the real problem of income inequality.

Edit: I changed my view and am no longer responding to comments.
gpt
Generational effects have actually made it so those three things (money, family status, and connections) are all quite concentrated in the white demographic. What you're talking about mostly affects competition *among* white people, but the average white person is better off in all three areas than other groups, this fact is itself *part of* white privilege. This is not changed by the fact that white people don't all have equal amounts of privilege in every area, nor that not every single white person has more of them than every single black person. You're correct that income inequality is a big problem, and the source of many other problems, but are missing the fact that income inequality is itself one of the vectors along which racial inequality makes itself apparent as well.