All white people are racists...or "white fragility" ??

[drfuzzy]

"So if someone is born dirt poor to the point of not even having a bathroom in their home, they are still considered privileged  people just because they are white? I think the Obama girls are extremely privileged. They're not white. I'd be inclined to think privilege has more to do with social class, money, and coming from a good family, than it does skin color."   --  CL

I'm with you there CL.  I used to work in a high school that was in a VERY low-income demographic.  The school didn't get the funding it needed.  The kids - - - so many didn't have opportunities for all sorts of reasons:  one-parent home, parents out of work, neither parent graduated from high school (and so don't value education), they have to babysit younger siblings while parents work, they have to work at McD's in order to help parents pay the rent . . . and on and on.  It was terribly sad.  I saw a huge waste of great potential.  

Privilege is privilege.   HOWEVER . . . a greater percentage of African-Americans (and Latinos?) live in poverty. 

I was raised white, lower middle class.  And yet, I had access to more educational opportunities, more scholarships, etc., than most kids living in poorer conditions had. Yes, there is privilege.  And yes, a lot of people whose parents could afford to pay for extracurricular activities and pay for college degrees don't see that they had big opportunities that a large percentage of the population do not have.